DCG posted: "It pays to be a race baiter. The New York Post reports that Al Sharpton rewarded himself with a 71% raise last year. Sharpton’s pay increased from $241,545 in 2013 to $412,644, including a bonus of $64,400, tax filings obtained by The Post. His Natio" Respond to this post by replying above this line New post on *Fellowship of the Minds* <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/dcgere/> Al Sharpton gives himself 71% raise thanks to de Blasio, Obama <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/11/23/al-sharpton-gives-himself-71-raise-thanks-to-de-blasio-obama/> by DCG <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/dcgere/>
It pays to be a race baiter <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/12/31/companies-that-finance-al-sharptons-race-baiting/> . [image: al-sharpton-obama-7-16-08] <https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/al-sharpton-obama-7-16-08.jpg> The New York Post reports <http://nypost.com/2015/11/22/al-sharpton-gives-himself-71-raise-thanks-to-de-blasio-obama/> that Al Sharpton rewarded himself with a 71% raise last year. *Sharpton’s pay increased from $241,545 in 2013 to $412,644, including a bonus of $64,400, tax filings obtained by The Post.* *His National Action Network group drew a record $6.9 million in donations last year* — as the controversial cleric’s association with Mayor de Blasio and President Obama lent him a newfound air of legitimacy. The Harlem-based nonprofit collected $2 million more in 2014 than the year before, according to the latest financial records available. *De Blasio’s election gave Sharpton a seat at City Hall, as the mayor treated him as an adviser and presented him at a press event next to Police Commissioner Bill Bratton <http://nypost.com/2014/09/10/bratton-on-sharptons-influence-ill-shake-hands-with-the-devil/> after the death of Eric Garner. *Also in 2014, Obama addressed NAN’s annual convention <http://nypost.com/2014/04/12/obama-praises-sharpton-amid-mob-snitch-revelations/>, bringing along five of his Cabinet members. [image: Photo Credit: G.N. Miller/NewYork Post.] <https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/deblasio_sharpton-ny-post-photo.jpg> Photo Credit: G.N. Miller/NewYork Post. After Sharpton’s buddy de Blasio took office, some 5,000 people attended NAN’s 2014 conference headlined by Obama and attended by the mayor, Gov. Cuomo and then-US Attorney General Eric Holder. *It was NAN’s biggest fund-raiser of the year.* Sharpton has been all over the police for their shootings of “innocent victims.” In August 2014 he held <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/08/17/teachers-union-backs-sharptons-planned-anti-police-rally/> an anti-police rally in Staten Island. And even after all of Sharpton’s police protests, he pulled in a reported $1 million at his 60th-birthday bash. Pols and dignitaries rushed from the annual Al Smith Dinner hosted by Timothy Cardinal Dolan that same night to the NAN fund-raiser at the Four Seasons restaurant. [image: Al Sharpton] <https://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/al-sharpton.jpg> NAN and Sharpton has shaken down donors <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2014/12/31/companies-that-finance-al-sharptons-race-baiting/>. *The program distributed at his birthday parties had full-page ads from companies that gave money. AT&T, real-estate developer Forest City Ratner, Walmart, McDonald’s, Verizon and GE Asset Management were all included. * The windfall allowed the organization to finish 2014 in the black. *Yet as a shocker to no one, NAN and Sharpton continued their deadbeat ways.* NAN didn’t pony up its last installment on the $780,145 it owed the IRS for unpaid payroll taxes until this Oct. 22, the organization’s financial statements show. The nonprofit had racked up unpaid payroll taxes since at least 2003, according to public records. *Sharpton, meanwhile, still has outstanding tax liens of $3.4 million <http://nypost.com/2014/08/03/sharpton-demands-accountability-but-still-owes-millions-in-back-taxes/>, including money he owes personally to both New York state and the IRS*, and taxes owed by his businesses, according to public records. He paid off one federal lien, for $931,398, in April. Sharpton has maintained that he owes much less money than records reflect <http://nypost.com/2014/11/18/sharpton-claims-to-have-settled-his-debts-with-the-irs/> and that he has been chipping away at the bills through payment plans. *Sharpton insists he didn’t really get a raise last year (he must be using Common Core math).* “I’m glad that NAN has resolved all of our past tax debts three years earlier than our agreement with the IRS and paid part of the compensation owed to me for several years I did not receive a salary,” Sharpton said in a statement. But a spokesman for the organization offered a different explanation, saying the salary hike was repayment of loans Sharpton previously made to NAN. Former IRS official Marcus Owens, an expert on nonprofit law, said the explanation seemed odd.* “To structure the payoff of a loan through a salary transfer doesn’t seem really plausible because no one would want to pay income tax on their own money coming back to them,”* Owens said. “It seems like that characterization was developed after the fact for some other purpose.” DCG *DCG <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/author/dcgere/>* | November 23, 2015 at 6:00 am | Tags: Al Sharpton <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/tag/al-sharpton/>, Bill de Blasio <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/tag/bill-de-blasio/> | Categories: IRS <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/category/united-states/irs/>, Liberals/Democrats/Left <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/category/liberalsdemocratsleft/>, Obama's America <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/category/united-states/us-presidents/obama/obamas-america/>, Race <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/category/race/>, race baiters/profiteers <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/category/race/race-baitersprofiteers/>, Taxes <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/category/economy/taxes/> | URL: http://wp.me/pKuKY-wCA Comment <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/11/23/al-sharpton-gives-himself-71-raise-thanks-to-de-blasio-obama/#respond> See all comments <http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/11/23/al-sharpton-gives-himself-71-raise-thanks-to-de-blasio-obama/#comments> Unsubscribe <https://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=9a7ed2eca0a37fc8484230edc68d3f28&email=bovinescatologists%40gmail.com&b=0Y%3FsfJRwd5fYl%2FQJ%26rqO%5BeyFbG9cgW5GjoG6Eh6p%5Btt%2Bsz%7EZ%5D%2B> to no longer receive posts from Fellowship of the Minds. 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