Sunday, January 4, 2015

New York Post reveals how Al Sharpton shakes down corporations for MILLIONS

◼ Ever wonder just how it is that Al Sharpton and other race-baiters are able to make money off their race-mongering? Well wonder no more because the New York Post has cast aside the curtain of secrecy and revealed how he does it - The Right Scoop
◼ Al Sharpton’s Shakedown Operation - Rick Moran/PJMedia
You have to ask what’s more nauseating? Al Sharpton’s threats to cry “racism” at corporations who don’t ante up or the corporations themselves who meekly acquiesce to the Reverend’s bullying tactics?
◼ Want to avoid being called a racist? Pay Al Sharpton - HotAir
This is a report well worth reading because some of it beggars the imagination. A Connecticut hedge firm group, Plainfield Asset Management, is on record as having ponied up $600,000 in two separate payments (funneled through another non-profit group) to Sharpton’s group while trying to curry favor with him during tricky government negotiations, or at least to avoid attracting fire from him. His group apparently had also been pestering General Motors for donations for many years without success. Then Al decided to protest GM in front of a dealership they were closing and suddenly the payments began. He pulled a similar move with American Honda in 2003, and also landed a $25K per year “consulting” gig with Pepsi after he threatened them with a boycott which mysteriously never happened after the checks started coming in.

One of the strangest tales in the article, however, deals with Sony Entertainment and the same woman made famous in recent stories about their leaked emails, Amy Pascal....
◼ How Sharpton gets paid to not cry ‘racism’ at corporations - New York Post
Put simply, Sharpton specializes in shakedowns,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal & Policy Center, a Virginia-based watchdog group that has produced a book on Sharpton.
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