http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/08/rev-al-sharpton-responds-to-smoking-gun-report-calling-him-fbi-informant/
i saw red neck scarborough this morning he kept putting the paper up in pretense of talking about Rev. Als hair the picture was dated, you can tell when you are hurting republicans they come after you with smear tactics Rev's segment on "we got yoy" is exposing the republican underbelly daily and it's taking a toll.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – The Rev. Al Sharptonon Tuesday addressed his long-known role inassisting a joint FBI-NYPD investigation in the 1980s.
At a news conference, Sharpton said he was threatened by “music industry goons” years ago and went to the government for protection.
“They were threatening to kill me,” Sharpton said. “I did the right thing and would do it again.”
As WCBS 880′s Paul Murnane reported, Sharpton’s paying a price with what he says is an old chapter in his life story being replayed across the front pages, with tabloid headlines including “Rev. Rat.”
“I was not and am not a rat, because I wasn’t with the rats. I’m a cat. I chased rats,” Sharpton said Tuesday.
The Smoking Gun website said Monday that it obtained hundreds of pages of secret court filings and FBI memos providing new details about Sharpton’s relationship with the feds.
The report shows Sharpton’s work as “Confidential Informant #7″ helped develop cases on the Genovese crime family, including Vincent “The Chin” Giganti, the so-called “Odd Father,” known for walking around in a bathrobe and pajamas, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported.
The report said Sharpton acted as a confidential informant and secretly recorded conversations with the mob by using a bugged briefcase.
When asked if he wore a wire to record the conversations, Sharpton replied, “The conversations were recorded.”
Sharpton said he cooperated with the FBI, but didn’t consider himself an informant.
On Monday, he told WCBS 880′s Rich Lamb that the story exaggerates his role and that he only asked the FBI to investigate the crime family after receiving threats.
The FBI “came in 1982, ’83, after Don King tried to entrap me in a drug deal that didn’t work,” Sharpton said. “Then seven months later, when I was threatened by members of the mob because I was saying that a lot of concerts should be going to black artists, and I went after them. I was threatened. I called these FBI guys back, since some of the guys were from California, and told them these are the kind of things they ought to be investigating.”
this shows he's doing his job and damn effectively i might add, God Bless him and those who are trying to put him in a trick bag only those like yourselves will bite when it comes to taking down the Black guy that's making good noise it only verifies the reason stated for the attacks, just ask the republican party and right wing race baters. they can get records from the FBI from over 30 years ago but can't get the 411 on Christie with all the players in the room, they need to find out if the docs are real and who leaked them DOJ you're on.
