Usually when you become an FBI informant it is to save your own arse... The idiot sharpton's hypocrisy grows. It would be very sad if Vinny and Guido from New Jersey help him sleep with the fishes. ............ Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant | The Smoking Gun APRIL 7--When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia informant. That same man attended February’s state dinner in honor of French President Francois Hollande. He was seated with his girlfriend at a table adjacent to President Barack Obama, who is likely unaware that, according to federal agents, his guest once interacted with members of four of New York City’s five organized crime families. He even secretly taped some of those wiseguys using a briefcase that FBI technicians outfitted with a recording device. The high-profile Obama supporter was also on the dais atop the U.S. Capitol steps last year when the president was sworn in for a second term. He was seated in front of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two rows behind Beyonce and Jay Z, and about 20 feet from Eric Holder, the country’s top law enforcement officer. As head of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Holder leads an agency that once reported that Obama’s inauguration guest also had La Cosa Nostra contacts beyond Gotham, and engaged in “conversations with LCN members from other parts of the United States.” The former mob snitch has become a regular in the White House, where he has met with the 44th president in the East Room, the Roosevelt Room, and the Oval Office. He has also attended Obama Christmas parties, speeches, policy announcements, and even watched a Super Bowl with the First Family (an evening the man has called “one of the highlights of my life”). During these gatherings, he has mingled with cabinet members, top Obama aides, military leaders, business executives, and members of Congress. His former confederates were a decidedly dicier lot: ex-convicts, extortionists, heroin traffickers, and mob henchmen. The man’s surreptitious recordings, FBI records show, aided his government handlers in the successful targeting of powerful Mafia figures with nicknames like Benny Eggs, Chin, Fritzy, Corky, and Baldy Dom. Later this week, Obama will travel to New York and appear in a Manhattan hotel ballroom at the side of the man whom FBI agents primarily referred to as “CI-7”--short for confidential informant #7--in secret court filings. In those documents, investigators vouched for him as a reliable, productive, and accurate source of information about underworld figures. The ex-informant has been one of Obama’s most unwavering backers, a cheerleader who has nightly bludgeoned the president’s Republican opponents in televised broadsides. For his part, Obama has sought the man’s counsel, embraced him publicly, and saluted his “commitment to fight injustice and inequality.” The president has even commented favorably on his friend’s svelte figure, the physical manifestation of a rehabilitation effort that coincided with Obama’s ascension to the White House. This radical makeover has brought the man wealth, a daily TV show, bespoke suits, a luxury Upper West Side apartment, and a spot on best seller lists. Most importantly, he has the ear of the President of the United States, an equally remarkable and perplexing achievement for the former FBI asset known as “CI-7,” the Rev. Al Sharpton.
He is a "Thug" ... A so-called Spiritual Thug, but a Thug, none the less... With a BullHorn Mouth, that has no regard for the TRUTH..... I wonder how long it will be before Uncle Al gets his Just Deserts, and a seat next to Jimmy Hoffa..... Under the Goal Posts @ The Meadowlands....... .....
And the only reason we know this is due to a FOI request..... good reporting once in a while still occurs....just not enough.
I don't see how big mouth Al survives 2014. Perhaps not even April. Unless Obama appoints him to some non-approved cabinet position and gives him SS protection. But then you have a mob associate on your hands going into next Congressional election cycle. Wow.
A neighbor watches nothing but MSNBC apparently, and last time I visiting bringing them something, I noticed that A.S. seems to actually talk out of the side of his mouth somewhat. I refused to listen to what he said, I just watched his facial movements when he talked.
Old Al looks like he has TSG on his tail with.......lord forbid Rev. Facts... The idiot sharpton is hated many even in the media but it seems that someone at TSG has their sites on the idiot sharpton and they have an open bar with a cab ride home if I ever meet them... Usually words are parsed but TSG is not parsing anything nor backing down.. .................................... Facts Derail Lying Sharpton's Informant Tale Former FBI Mafia snitch spins fabricated story of "CI-7" work APRIL 9--In a desperate effort to explain away his work as a paid government informant, the Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday claimed that he first ran into the FBI’s arms after his life was threatened by gangsters, an incident that prompted him to then record 10 face-to-face encounters with one of those dangerous hoodlums. That story is a lie. Facts Derail Lying Sharpton's Informant Tale | The Smoking Gun
