The NY Post: [1]
The Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network have been slapped with a record $285,000 fine for violating a slew of federal election rules during his 2004 bid for president, the Post has learned.
In a decision to be made public next month, the Federal Election Commission found that Sharpton’s Democratic primary campaign accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from private sources.
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Al Sharpton, in a typical pose
It also “kept poor records of its activities and expenditures” and commingled funds with Sharpton’s civil-rights group. All are prohibited under the Federal Election Campaign Act.
Interesting, how they had to wait until there was a Democrat in the White House before finally getting around to issuing a ruling on these misdeeds.
There’s an awful lot more going on here than the commission finally decided to rule on. Indeed on the first pass Sharpton was to pay half a million dollars worth of fine.
If all of these fines, however, all these misdeeds, are involved in a losing effort, one can only wonder how many misdeeds were wrapped up in the more recent winning effort. I’ll leave that to your imagination.