So Al Sharpton was a DEA and FBI snitch. --------------- Per the Smoking a Gun, He spent at least four years in the latter 1980s trolling the dark side of the sports and entertainment business for investigators, cultivating seedy ties with mobsters and pop stars alike, The Smoking Gun reported. In a near-novella-length piece of meticulously sourced reporting, “Al Sharpton’s Secret Work As FBI Informant” chronicles Sharpton’s brush with federal agents in 1983 when he was recorded in a conversation about arranging drug deals that frightened him into cooperating further. The report then documents Sharpton’s work with federal agents over the ensuing years to investigate the Genovese, Gambino and Colombo crime families, other organized crime associates and the sometimes sordid worlds where big-time entertainment and big-time crime intersect. Among the highlights of the blockbuster piece: Sharpton was a paid informant for more than four years, and FBI agents and prosecutors went to great lengths to his identity, to protect their investigations – and his life. Sharpton was induced into cooperation because he feared prosecution under federal conspiracy laws. Sharpton has always denied rumors he was an informant.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 01:46:49 +0000
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