yeah the "crime fighting cat" actually had a double life where he used Mob Affiliates to collect on a "consultant fee" owed to him numbering over six figures in debt...
and also confirms the REAL REASON the Mob was "making death threats" against Sharpton as he claims is because he was trying to "extort" music execs without the Mafia cosign that he formerly received from Sal Pisello whom is named in this document as one of the "goons" sent to collect on the "consultant" debt" in 1983 from Sugarhill Records Co-founder Joe Robinson
They (Sharpton and Pisello) fell out the following year, when Sharpton "stepped on the toes" of Pisello and the Genovese family by wanting a piece of the action of the JACKSON's "VICTORY TOUR" disgusing it as a rally to boycott the exclusion of black promoters.
Although little of the situation came of a benefit to black promoters...Al was able to land the "role" of COMMUNITY RELATIONS DIRECTOR for the Tour.
This was becoming troubling to Al's "mob friends"...
in fact Al Sharpton had created his own "syndicate" with the aid of his "good friend" convicted cocaine trafficker Robert Curington whom also served as vice-president of Sharpton's "National Youth Movement".
The "Mob family" responded according to The March 24, 1988 issue of
Rolling Stone magazine reported that Azoff, who had a financial interest in the Michael Jackson tour, admitted to having been the executive whom Pisello approached with an offer to "take care" of Sharpton.
The Smoking Gun FBI "C1-7" Document:
As
TSG reported earlier this week, Sharpton’s involvement with Buonanno--a supposed facilitator of Mafia death threats--did not cease after his brieface was switched off.
In fact, several years later, when Sharpton and Curington were seeking to collect a six-figure consulting fee owed to them by Joe Robinson, founder of Sugar Hill Records, “Joe Bana” was one of several hoodlums who showed up unannounced at the label’s New Jersey office.
The hoodlums threatened Robinson over the money owed to Sharpton and Curington, whom the Drug Enforcement Administration once termed a “Class 1” narcotics trafficker.
After Robinson complained to police about the mob muscle pressuring him, a local cop kept an eye out for wiseguys arriving at Sugar Hill’s headquarters. One day, Detective Edward Stempinski of the Englewood Police Department caught Buonanno and a Genovese crime family figure at Sugar Hill. Stempinski, now retired, recalled that the wiseguys “didn’t look like they should be going into a rapper’s studio.”
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/Al-Sharpton-918273
