Al Sharpton: how deep does the con go?
By Jon Rappoport
April 8, 2014
Here's the current breaking Al Sharpton story---From April 7, The Smoking Gun:
"The former mob snitch
[Sharpton] has become a regular in the White House, where he has met
with the 44th president in the East Room, the Roosevelt Room, and the
Oval Office. He has also attended Obama Christmas parties, speeches,
policy announcements, and even watched a Super Bowl with the First
Family...
"His [Sharpton's]
former confederates were a decidedly dicier lot: ex-convicts,
extortionists, heroin traffickers, and mob henchmen. The man's
[Sharpton's] surreptitious recordings, FBI records show, aided his
government handlers in the successful targeting of powerful Mafia
figures with nicknames like Benny Eggs, Chin, Fritzy, Corky, and Baldy
Dom...
"In fact, by any
measure, Sharpton himself was a Mafia 'associate,' the law enforcement
designation given to mob affiliates who, while not initiated, work with
and for crime family members."
But let's travel back
to 2004. Reporter Doug Ireland, who has written for The Nation,
TomPaine.com, In These Times, and LA Weekly, went deeper in evaluating
Sharpton's motives and allies.
From here to the end
of this article, I'm quoting Ireland, from his February 21, 2004,
article, "Rev. Al Sharpton: FBI Informant-Roger Stone's Bitch,"
originally published in LA Weekly and at webstonne.com, and then Conspiracy Planet:
In his 2003
autobiography, Al on America, the Rev. Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr.
admits, "I have been guilty of letting ungodly things around me."
And that was never
more true than with the latest [2004] revelations about Sharpton, who
has now been exposed as a cat's-paw for the National Republican Party.
Rev. Al has a long and
sordid history of posing as the champion of the have-nots, while
renting himself out to the greedy have-everythings, which predates his
'04 GOP-funded presidential campaign. In 1986, he endorsed N.Y. Senator
Al D'Amato for re-election -- although D'Amato, a conservative
Republican pit bull, was anathema to more issues-attuned black leaders.
In 1994, he helped
dampen down the black vote for [Democrat] Governor Mario Cuomo by making
a media-hyped appearance with successful conservative Republican
candidate George Pataki just days before the election. In the 2001 New
York mayoral campaign, he connived with GOP billionaire Michael
Bloomberg in the defeat of the Democratic candidate, Mark Green.
But Sharpton has not
limited himself simply to supporting candidates considered by most to be
inimical to the interests of the impoverished black community.
A 1988 investigation
by the Long Island daily Newsday revealed that Sharpton, who denounces
African-American leaders who disagree with him as "yellow n*****s," had
been a longtime FBI informant in a scheme to entrap black leaders and
personalities on drug-related matters, even going so far as to wear a
wire to record their conversations for the feds.
How did the FBI turn Sharpton into their bitch?
Why, they caught Rev.
Al up to his hairdo in a drug-money Laundromat in which Don King, the
much-indicted boxing promoter and a longtime pal of Sharpton's, was a
central figure. What's more, the drug deal was an FBI sting -- and the
feds had it all on videotape, too.
Just two years ago,
Bryant Gumbel -- the second most popular black on television next to
Oprah -- aired on his HBO Real Sports show an FBI videotape of Sharpton
discussing laundering money from a South American drug dealer via King
with Michael "Sonny" Franzese, a former Colombo family captain.
Sharpton was going to
arrange a meeting with King and the coke peddler to set up the deal. But
the "South American" was an FBI agent, Franzese had already been turned
by the feds into an informant and Sharpton fell right into their trap.
Sharpton became a
sting artist for the feds when he was himself stung. After the tape
aired, Sharpton announced he was going to sue HBO for a billion bucks.
Nothing has been heard of the lawsuit since then.
Now, in his current
presidential campaign [2004], Sharpton has been revealed as a wholly
owned Republican subsidiary. Sharpton has been used by Republican
operatives to discredit real contenders for the Democratic nomination.
And the more prominent a place on the Democratic stage Sharpton can
command, all the way to Boston, the more the Republicans can use the
wisecracking but polarizing preacher-without-a-church as a bogeyman to
frighten moderate voters away from the Democratic ticket.
That's the story behind the blockbuster report in the February 5
Village Voice " the L.A. Weekly's sister paper in which veteran Voice
investigative reporter Wayne Barrett and his team unveiled the
malevolent forces keeping Sharpton's campaign alive: "Roger Stone, the
longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut
down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George Bush president
in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential
campaign of Rev. Al Sharpton."
Who is Roger Stone? A
slash-and-burn Republican black-bag election tamperer and
consultant...Stone first made news in the Nixon Watergate scandal, when
it was revealed that the 19-year-old apprentice McCarthyite had
infiltrated George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign as part of
CREEP's sabotage plan.
A few other highlights
of Stone's career as the boastful black prince of Republican sleaze:
Stone helped Ollie North raise money for the Nicaraguan contras, and was
a close associate of the notorious Lee Atwater (the GOP hit man who
created the race-baiting Willie Horton TV spots for Bush 1988
presidential campaign).
The New Yorker's
Jeffrey Toobin in his excellent book, Too Close To Call, about the 2000
Florida election -- details how Stone was summoned by Bush recount chief
James Baker to disrupt the vote counting (Stone and his Cuban wife,
Nydia, organized a screaming mob of Miami Cubans outside the
headquarters of the canvassing board -- Stone directed the mob by
walkie-talkie from across the street -- and intimidated the board into
ending the count).
On the stump, Rev. Al
has frequently denounced the theft of the presidential election in
Florida -- which depended in large measure on invalidating black votes.
For example, he told a
Democratic National Committee meeting last October that "We are
witnessing a nonmilitary civil war; it started with the recount in
Florida." So, hopping into bed with Stone might strike many
African-Americans as "ungodly" hypocrisy. But the tale gets worse.
When Sharpton launched
a vicious attack on [Democrat] Howard Dean for his supposed "anti-black
agenda," the man behind the curtain was Stone, who crowed to The New
York Times that he "helped set the tone and direction" of the blast at
Dean, while the research for it was provided by the man Stone had
installed as Sharpton's campaign manager, Charles Halloran, one of a
half-dozen top aides to Sharpton who worked for Stone in previous
campaigns.
A member of Stone's
stable who stays at Stone's Central Park South apartment in New York
while working for Sharpton, Halloran -- just before taking over the
Sharpton campaign -- had been managing the parliamentary campaign for
one of Stone's numerous foreign clients: the United Bermuda Party, a
white-led party trying to oust the resort island's first black
government.
Since Rev. Al's
presidential campaign [2004] is really all about trying to succeed Jesse
Jackson as America's premier black political leader, the installation
of Halloran is thus an odd choice indeed, one that can be explained only
by Sharpton's dependence on the money funneled into his campaign by
Stone. (Halloran's wife works for the infamous Carlyle Group, the
military-industrial-complex giant of which Bush was a longtime officer.)
Stone has acknowledged
that he "helped Sharpton" meet the 20-state, $5,000-contribution
threshold required for federal matching funds....
...Sharpton's almost
penniless campaign has been sustained only by money given or raised by
[Republican] Stone or by Stone-arranged credit with consultants --
without which the campaign would collapse. The [Village] Voice alleges
that Stone loaned some $270,000 to Sharpton laundered through Rev. Al's
National Action Network (NAN), and that Stone rang up $18,000 on his
credit card for Sharpton's campaign-travel and other expenses.
In the wake of these
revelations, the Federal Election Commission is about to consider [2004]
whether the Sharpton campaign expenses picked up by NAN with the money
provided by Stone, and other unpaid-for campaign services provided by
Stone and his chums, constitute illegal campaign contributions,
according to The New York Times.
The Stone revelations
show that Rev. Al's presidential campaign is nothing more than another
scam he's running on black Americans, one designed to undermine the
movement to defeat George Bush. Fortunately, black voters aren't as
gullible as the cynical Sharpton thinks they are -- they know an
unprincipled huckster when they see one.
Which is why Sharpton
-- despite the help from his GOP bedmates on which his campaign depends
-- has been rejected by significant majorities of African-Americans this
year at the polls.
*** Doug Ireland is a
New York-based media critic and commentator whose articles appear
regularly in The Nation, Tom Paine.com, and In These Times among many
others. This article first appeared in the LA Weekly.
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