The Associated Press is reporting that federal auditors have concluded the Rev. Al Sharpton’s 2004 campaign owes the government nearly $500,000 for illegal donations and other financial improprieties.
Sharpton has been feuding with the Federal Election Commission for years over his accounting in his failed run for president, for which he received $100,000 in so-called government matching funds that authorities later concluded he did not deserve because he hadn’t followed campaign laws.
The auditors have now determined that Sharpton owes $486,803 to the U.S. Treasury because of his campaign’s taking improper donations, largely from the National Action Network, a not-for-profit corporation that Sharpton leads but is separate from his campaign committee.
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If you owe the IRS you owe but it’s hard not to think this isn’t some form of political backlash from Obama’s win.