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Article: State Calls Sharpton Group a Facade
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- The Washington Post
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- March 30, 1990
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, whose militant protests in racially charged
controversies have made him the city's most prominent black activist,
was described in court today as head of a "phantom organization" that
he used as a "hustle" to feed his "hunger for cash."
At the opening of Sharpton's fraud and grand larceny trial,
prosecutor Victor Genecin said the flamboyant Brooklyn preacher had
used his anti-drug group as a front to benefit his second career as a
record and concert promoter for such performers as Pia Zadora,
Jermaine Jackson, New Edition and Run-DMC.
The National Youth Movement (NYM), which Sharpton started when he
was 16, "was never anything more than a one-room office in Brooklyn ...