Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton (born 1954) went right into making a living stirring up race issues, bypassing getting a job. Finding incidences where there was racial tension or possibly could be, he would help fan the flame. Indeed, he has even been called a 'racial arsonist'. Some of his notable 'cases' were the Howard Beach incident and the Tawana Brawley incident. In both cases Sharpon got the defendants to refuse to cooperate with the police that could have led to quick indictments and justice and instead called for grand jury investigations. The Tawana Brawley case was later determined to be a fraud, 7 months into a grand jury investigation and after a waste of taxpayer money and bitter racial strife.
Sharpton was licensed as a minister at the age of 9 as a Pentecostal and again as an adult as a Baptist. He has no formal religious training. As Sharpon's notoriety has increased he has spread out, running for President as a Democrat in 2004. Part of the joke of the late night talk show circuit was that Sharpton wanted his very first job to be President of the United States. Today he is a radio talk show host focusing almost exclusively on, racial issues.
Sharpton has owed the IRS back taxes for many years. Counting penalties it is currently 1.5 million dollars.[1]
