Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant...UPDATE: He did an interview w/ Tom Joyner
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Of course they were black.
mcdivit85
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I have to listen to the Tom Joyner interview and read more on this. However, I'm not sure why anyone would be totally surprised. Even if you weren't sure or didn't quite believe it, rumors surrounding Sharpton being an informant have been going around for years and years.
For a man who's been so close to the heartbeat of the trials and tribulations of black folk for him to become a suit and tie on MSNBC was pretty suspicious to me, so I wasn't too sure about that. Seems the media pariah became the media darling overnight.
But the real question is, why would this information be leaked now?
Did Sharpton upset some higher ups at the FBI?
Did the FBI make a deal with the Mafia to take a sh#t on Sharpton's public persona?
Is the FBI setting a death trap for Al Sharpton?
I'm not condemning Sharpton until I have done much more research and have collected more receipts. But what I'm more curious about is why this story came out in the first place....no media "uncovering" happens by chance.
Peace
For a man who's been so close to the heartbeat of the trials and tribulations of black folk for him to become a suit and tie on MSNBC was pretty suspicious to me, so I wasn't too sure about that. Seems the media pariah became the media darling overnight.
But the real question is, why would this information be leaked now?
Did Sharpton upset some higher ups at the FBI?
Did the FBI make a deal with the Mafia to take a sh#t on Sharpton's public persona?
Is the FBI setting a death trap for Al Sharpton?
I'm not condemning Sharpton until I have done much more research and have collected more receipts. But what I'm more curious about is why this story came out in the first place....no media "uncovering" happens by chance.
Peace
the story is coming out now because Sharpton is probably trying to do something of substance to help the Black community, outside of being outspoken and bringing attention to Black issues, that's a BIG no-no.
Sharpton DEFINITELY did something to upset someone and it was probably something that threatens the system of white supremacy.
you can't get in bed with White Supremacy and try to fight it while benefiting from it, these white people would much rather destroy him before the world and damage his credibility in the Black community.
Is he gonna lose his show
CashmereThoughts
Veteran
I'm talking about here in NY, or in the states in general. It would be the genovese crime family that he would have a problem with and trust me, they not what they used to be. The mafia in Italy don't have nothing to do with this
CashmereThoughts
Veteran
Because he cooperated with law enforcement?
Race card will be pulled so fast. What's the evidence against him regarding drugs?
@lotty you should be ashamed of yourself
@The HONORABLE SKJ get in here breh. Hold me down in here.
@lotty tried to say that no one ever came forward to support the allegations against Sharpton....now they're rolling in...
Ahmed Obafemi recalls 1983 meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and his bugged briefcase - NY Daily News
Ahmed Obafemi recalls 1983 meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and his bugged briefcase
After The Smoking Gun website quoted secret court papers detailing how Sharpton used a bugged briefcase for the FBI in the 1980s, Obafemi said he feels vindicated. Obafemi, an activist with ties to black revolutionaries, had suspicions about Sharpton and the unusual attention he paid to his briefcase during a 1983 meeting about Joanne Chesimard.
BY RON HOWELL
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Sunday, April 13, 2014, 2:30 AM
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RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES FOR NEURO DRINKSAhmed Obafemi was suspicious of Rev. Al Sharpton's unusual attention to his briefcase during a 1983 meeting at a restaurant.
Ahmed Obafemi is having flashbacks — about a briefcase.
Last week, when stunning new details emerged about the Rev. Al Sharpton’s role as an FBI informant in the 1980s, Obafemi kept thinking about a sitdown he had with Sharpton at a lower Manhattan restaurant in 1983.
And the briefcase that Sharpton brought with him.
“It was the way he sat it down,” Obafemi recalled.
Sharpton, according to Obafemi, set up the meeting to seek information about the whereabouts of Joanne Chesimard, who was a fugitive after being convicted in the killing of a New Jersey state trooper.
Sharpton thought Obafemi, an activist with ties to black revolutionaries, might be able to help, Obafemi said.
In an interview last week, Obafemi recalled the unusual attention Sharpton paid to that briefcase — how Sharpton kept it close to them, and between them.
Obafemi’s instincts — the hyperalert feelings of someone who was in touch with imprisoned and on-the-run black radicals — made him deeply suspicious, he said.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/NY DAILY NEWSCop killer Joanne Chesimard, who escaped from prison and has been a fugitive since 1979.
Eventually, he decided to break ties with Sharpton.
Now, after The Smoking Gun website last week quoted secret court papers detailing how Sharpton used a bugged briefcase to record mobsters for the FBI in the 1980s, Obafemi said he feels vindicated.
“All our suspicions were true,” said Obafemi, who now lives in Atlanta, where he administers youth programs for the New Afrikan People’s Organization.
Although the circumstances of why Sharpton became a federal informant are in dispute, he has long acknowledged that he secretly recorded mobsters for the FBI in the 1980s.
All our suspicions were true.
But he has always denied allegations that his cooperation with the feds included trying to obtain information on black revolutionaries, as one law enforcement source told Newsday in 1988.
Sharpton’s attempt to contact Chesimard — a left-wing militant who goes by the African name Assata Shakur and has been a fugitive since a 1979 prison break — began when he ran into New York photographer and activist Kwame Brathwaite, Brathwaite said last week.
Sharpton said he would give $50,000 to Chesimard if she could be located, Brathwaite recalled, adding that Sharpton claimed the cash came from sympathizers who wanted to help Chesimard and other underground radicals.
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGESLast week, details emerged about the Rev. Al Sharpton’s role as an FBI informant in the 1980s.
Brathwaite then told his friend Obafemi of the offer.
In phone conversations last week, Obafemi said that he had fairly detailed memories of two of his meetings with Sharpton.
One was at an apartment complex across the street from Lincoln Center, where Sharpton tried to make his case that he wanted to help black radicals hiding out from authorities, Obafemi said.
“He told me to sit right in front of a TV,” Obafemi recalled, adding that, even at the time, he had strong suspicions there were recording devices in the appliance.
And then there was the meeting at the downtown Manhattan restaurant where Sharpton showed up with the briefcase.
“He was just so meticulous in situating it,” as if there was a camera or other recording device in it, Obafemi said.
People often accused Obafemi and his associates of being “paranoid,” he said, but with Sharpton “there were too many things” that raised red flags, and Obafemi and the radicals he went to for advice decided they had no choice but to stay away from Sharpton in the future.
BILL TURNBULL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSRev. Al Sharpton with Alton Maddox, Rev. Timothy Mitchell and C. Vernon Mason.
Brathwaite, now 76, has had a long career as a photographer with black newspapers and music magazines. It was the music connection that led Sharpton to reach out to him, he indicated.
Chesimard, who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army and happens to be the aunt of deceased rap legend Tupac Shakur, has been living in Cuba under a grant of asylum from the government of Fidel Castro.
Last year, she became the first woman on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list.
In an interview Saturday, Sharpton denied that he worked with the government to find Chesimard or any other black radicals wanted by authorities.
“I think that I respect the fact that (Obafemi) could be feeling that, but that’s not the case,” Sharpton said.
He added that he had no clear recollections of the meetings Obafemi and Brathwaite described.
Read more: Ahmed Obafemi recalls 1983 meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and his bugged briefcase - NY Daily News[DOUBLEPOST=1397545768][/DOUBLEPOST]
@The HONORABLE SKJ get in here breh. Hold me down in here.
@lotty tried to say that no one ever came forward to support the allegations against Sharpton....now they're rolling in...
Ahmed Obafemi recalls 1983 meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and his bugged briefcase - NY Daily News
Ahmed Obafemi recalls 1983 meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and his bugged briefcase
After The Smoking Gun website quoted secret court papers detailing how Sharpton used a bugged briefcase for the FBI in the 1980s, Obafemi said he feels vindicated. Obafemi, an activist with ties to black revolutionaries, had suspicions about Sharpton and the unusual attention he paid to his briefcase during a 1983 meeting about Joanne Chesimard.
BY RON HOWELL
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Sunday, April 13, 2014, 2:30 AM
- A
- A
- A
0
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Ahmed Obafemi is having flashbacks — about a briefcase.
Last week, when stunning new details emerged about the Rev. Al Sharpton’s role as an FBI informant in the 1980s, Obafemi kept thinking about a sitdown he had with Sharpton at a lower Manhattan restaurant in 1983.
And the briefcase that Sharpton brought with him.
“It was the way he sat it down,” Obafemi recalled.
Sharpton, according to Obafemi, set up the meeting to seek information about the whereabouts of Joanne Chesimard, who was a fugitive after being convicted in the killing of a New Jersey state trooper.
Sharpton thought Obafemi, an activist with ties to black revolutionaries, might be able to help, Obafemi said.
In an interview last week, Obafemi recalled the unusual attention Sharpton paid to that briefcase — how Sharpton kept it close to them, and between them.
Obafemi’s instincts — the hyperalert feelings of someone who was in touch with imprisoned and on-the-run black radicals — made him deeply suspicious, he said.
Eventually, he decided to break ties with Sharpton.
Now, after The Smoking Gun website last week quoted secret court papers detailing how Sharpton used a bugged briefcase to record mobsters for the FBI in the 1980s, Obafemi said he feels vindicated.
“All our suspicions were true,” said Obafemi, who now lives in Atlanta, where he administers youth programs for the New Afrikan People’s Organization.
Although the circumstances of why Sharpton became a federal informant are in dispute, he has long acknowledged that he secretly recorded mobsters for the FBI in the 1980s.
All our suspicions were true.
But he has always denied allegations that his cooperation with the feds included trying to obtain information on black revolutionaries, as one law enforcement source told Newsday in 1988.
Sharpton’s attempt to contact Chesimard — a left-wing militant who goes by the African name Assata Shakur and has been a fugitive since a 1979 prison break — began when he ran into New York photographer and activist Kwame Brathwaite, Brathwaite said last week.
Sharpton said he would give $50,000 to Chesimard if she could be located, Brathwaite recalled, adding that Sharpton claimed the cash came from sympathizers who wanted to help Chesimard and other underground radicals.
Brathwaite then told his friend Obafemi of the offer.
In phone conversations last week, Obafemi said that he had fairly detailed memories of two of his meetings with Sharpton.
One was at an apartment complex across the street from Lincoln Center, where Sharpton tried to make his case that he wanted to help black radicals hiding out from authorities, Obafemi said.
“He told me to sit right in front of a TV,” Obafemi recalled, adding that, even at the time, he had strong suspicions there were recording devices in the appliance.
And then there was the meeting at the downtown Manhattan restaurant where Sharpton showed up with the briefcase.
“He was just so meticulous in situating it,” as if there was a camera or other recording device in it, Obafemi said.
People often accused Obafemi and his associates of being “paranoid,” he said, but with Sharpton “there were too many things” that raised red flags, and Obafemi and the radicals he went to for advice decided they had no choice but to stay away from Sharpton in the future.
BILL TURNBULL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSRev. Al Sharpton with Alton Maddox, Rev. Timothy Mitchell and C. Vernon Mason.
Brathwaite, now 76, has had a long career as a photographer with black newspapers and music magazines. It was the music connection that led Sharpton to reach out to him, he indicated.
Chesimard, who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army and happens to be the aunt of deceased rap legend Tupac Shakur, has been living in Cuba under a grant of asylum from the government of Fidel Castro.
Last year, she became the first woman on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list.
In an interview Saturday, Sharpton denied that he worked with the government to find Chesimard or any other black radicals wanted by authorities.
“I think that I respect the fact that (Obafemi) could be feeling that, but that’s not the case,” Sharpton said.
He added that he had no clear recollections of the meetings Obafemi and Brathwaite described.
Read more: Ahmed Obafemi recalls 1983 meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and his bugged briefcase - NY Daily News[DOUBLEPOST=1397545768][/DOUBLEPOST]
@lotty you should be ashamed of yourself
@The HONORABLE SKJ get in here breh. Hold me down in here.
@lotty tried to say that no one ever came forward to support the allegations against Sharpton....now they're rolling in...
Ahmed Obafemi recalls 1983 meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and his bugged briefcase - NY Daily News
Ahmed Obafemi recalls 1983 meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and his bugged briefcase
After The Smoking Gun website quoted secret court papers detailing how Sharpton used a bugged briefcase for the FBI in the 1980s, Obafemi said he feels vindicated. Obafemi, an activist with ties to black revolutionaries, had suspicions about Sharpton and the unusual attention he paid to his briefcase during a 1983 meeting about Joanne Chesimard.
BY RON HOWELL
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
Sunday, April 13, 2014, 2:30 AM
- A
- A
- A
0
4
SHARE THIS URL
RICK DIAMOND/GETTY IMAGES FOR NEURO DRINKSAhmed Obafemi was suspicious of Rev. Al Sharpton's unusual attention to his briefcase during a 1983 meeting at a restaurant.
Ahmed Obafemi is having flashbacks — about a briefcase.
Last week, when stunning new details emerged about the Rev. Al Sharpton’s role as an FBI informant in the 1980s, Obafemi kept thinking about a sitdown he had with Sharpton at a lower Manhattan restaurant in 1983.
And the briefcase that Sharpton brought with him.
“It was the way he sat it down,” Obafemi recalled.
Sharpton, according to Obafemi, set up the meeting to seek information about the whereabouts of Joanne Chesimard, who was a fugitive after being convicted in the killing of a New Jersey state trooper.
Sharpton thought Obafemi, an activist with ties to black revolutionaries, might be able to help, Obafemi said.
In an interview last week, Obafemi recalled the unusual attention Sharpton paid to that briefcase — how Sharpton kept it close to them, and between them.
Obafemi’s instincts — the hyperalert feelings of someone who was in touch with imprisoned and on-the-run black radicals — made him deeply suspicious, he said.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS/NY DAILY NEWSCop killer Joanne Chesimard, who escaped from prison and has been a fugitive since 1979.
Eventually, he decided to break ties with Sharpton.
Now, after The Smoking Gun website last week quoted secret court papers detailing how Sharpton used a bugged briefcase to record mobsters for the FBI in the 1980s, Obafemi said he feels vindicated.
“All our suspicions were true,” said Obafemi, who now lives in Atlanta, where he administers youth programs for the New Afrikan People’s Organization.
Although the circumstances of why Sharpton became a federal informant are in dispute, he has long acknowledged that he secretly recorded mobsters for the FBI in the 1980s.
All our suspicions were true.
But he has always denied allegations that his cooperation with the feds included trying to obtain information on black revolutionaries, as one law enforcement source told Newsday in 1988.
Sharpton’s attempt to contact Chesimard — a left-wing militant who goes by the African name Assata Shakur and has been a fugitive since a 1979 prison break — began when he ran into New York photographer and activist Kwame Brathwaite, Brathwaite said last week.
Sharpton said he would give $50,000 to Chesimard if she could be located, Brathwaite recalled, adding that Sharpton claimed the cash came from sympathizers who wanted to help Chesimard and other underground radicals.
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGESLast week, details emerged about the Rev. Al Sharpton’s role as an FBI informant in the 1980s.
Brathwaite then told his friend Obafemi of the offer.
In phone conversations last week, Obafemi said that he had fairly detailed memories of two of his meetings with Sharpton.
One was at an apartment complex across the street from Lincoln Center, where Sharpton tried to make his case that he wanted to help black radicals hiding out from authorities, Obafemi said.
“He told me to sit right in front of a TV,” Obafemi recalled, adding that, even at the time, he had strong suspicions there were recording devices in the appliance.
And then there was the meeting at the downtown Manhattan restaurant where Sharpton showed up with the briefcase.
“He was just so meticulous in situating it,” as if there was a camera or other recording device in it, Obafemi said.
People often accused Obafemi and his associates of being “paranoid,” he said, but with Sharpton “there were too many things” that raised red flags, and Obafemi and the radicals he went to for advice decided they had no choice but to stay away from Sharpton in the future.
BILL TURNBULL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWSRev. Al Sharpton with Alton Maddox, Rev. Timothy Mitchell and C. Vernon Mason.
Brathwaite, now 76, has had a long career as a photographer with black newspapers and music magazines. It was the music connection that led Sharpton to reach out to him, he indicated.
Chesimard, who was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army and happens to be the aunt of deceased rap legend Tupac Shakur, has been living in Cuba under a grant of asylum from the government of Fidel Castro.
Last year, she became the first woman on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list.
In an interview Saturday, Sharpton denied that he worked with the government to find Chesimard or any other black radicals wanted by authorities.
“I think that I respect the fact that (Obafemi) could be feeling that, but that’s not the case,” Sharpton said.
He added that he had no clear recollections of the meetings Obafemi and Brathwaite described.
Read more: Ahmed Obafemi recalls 1983 meeting with Rev. Al Sharpton and his bugged briefcase - NY Daily News[DOUBLEPOST=1397545768][/DOUBLEPOST]
well, well, well...
our suspicions are confirmed, he wasn't only recording the Italians as some have foolishly suggested.
http://www.thecoli.com/posts/7994362/dude refuses to even admit that he was an informant when the FBI referred to him as CI-7 during his stint as a snitch, there's no way in hell he wasn't used to the benefit of White supremacy while working for the FBI, he's literally one of the BEST assets that could have fallen in their lap. this nikka is probably responsible for a whole lot of Black people getting set up.
can't trust no nikka that wears a perm and claims to be in Black people's corner.
the FBI was running a program (Cointelpro) to infiltrate the Black community and the program's intent was to prevent the rise of a "Black messiah". why wouldn't the FBI use Sharpton as an asset considering how deeply integrated he was into the Black community prior to him running to them crying for help. It's beyond foolish to think such a perfect asset could fall directly into the FBI's lap and they don't use him to do their bidding.
as far as I'm concerned he's still an agent to this very day.
