"Want to influence a casino bid? Polish your corporate image? Not be labeled a racist?
Then you need to pay Al Sharpton."
"For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharpton?s National Action Network. What they get in return is the reverend?s supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence."
?Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didn?t come to terms with him. 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.
?Once Sharpton?s on board, he plays the race card all the way through,? said a source who has worked with the Harlem preacher. ?He just keeps asking for more and more money.?
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