If this bastard is a reverend I'm Saint Peter

I was not a rat! Al Sharpton defends recording mob bosses as 'what was right'



I'm sure Al is elated this video surfaced.

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I like the hat he's wearing. He missed his calling. Should have been a pimp.

Now he has his own TV show "Politics Nation".  This video confirms what I knew all along. Sharpton has absolutely no credibility! MSNBC has even less for giving this scumbag the show. Wasn't Olbermann suspended and eventually let go for breaking company rules over campaign contributions. Doesn't that pale in comparison to what Sharpton has done?

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By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter

Published: 10:53 EST, 8 April 2014 | Updated: 11:40 EST, 8 April 2014

The Rev. Al Sharpton said today that a report that he spied on New York Mafia figures for the FBI in the 1980s is old news, adding that he never considered himself an informant.

'In my own mind I was not an informant,' Sharpton said. 'I was cooperating with an investigation.'

Sharpton called a news conference at his Harlem headquarters to talk about a story The Smoking Gun website posted on Monday claiming he had recorded conversations with mobsters.

Defiant:

 He said he was simply cooperating with an investigation and was not an informant.

Bo Dietl had a slightly different account

Ex NYPD Cop: We Used to Call Sharpton ‘The Fat Rat’

'When he says he didn't know he was an informant that's a lot of baloney. Al Sharpton knew what he was doing'

April 8, 2014 11:04 pm

Former NYPD detective Bo Dietl told Sean Hannity Al Sharpton’s contention that he did not know he was an FBI informant in the 1980s is “a lot of baloney.”

Sharpton fiercely maintained in a press conference earlier today that he was not a “rat” following revelations Sharpton attempted to buy cocaine from an undercover FBI agent.

Dietl, speaking Tuesday evening on Fox News, revealed the NYPD had a special nickname for Sharpton after the current MSNBC host became an informant:

BO DIETL: There was a lot of involvement with the music industry at that time that Al was involved in. And then all of the sudden we used to pass through East Harlem, and everyone knew it. We used to call him the fat rat.

SEAN HANNITY: What do you make of that video with cocaine?

DIETL: The video stands for itself right there. He was talking about buying kilos of coke with an undercover. So who is he representing?

HANNITY: Do you think that resulted in him becoming — he was flipped as a result of that because they threatened to indict him?

DIETL: The majority of the times when we develop informants is when you get them on a felony case and then you flip them and they become an informant. When he says he didn’t know he was an informant that’s a lot of baloney. Al Sharpton knew what he was doing, he was cooperating with the FBI.

So who do you think is lying?

Vincent 'Chin' Gigante (C) was a Genovese crime family boss who pretended to be mentally ill in order to escape responsibility for his crimes -- but Sharpton helped foil his plot when he taped other mob figures discussing the ruse.

Wonder what the Gambino and Genovese family are thinking right now?

If this bastard is a reverend I'm Saint Peter