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Article: Sharpton Pleads Not Guilty to Tax-Evasion Charges in N.Y.
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- The Washington Post
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- July 1, 1989
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, the flamboyant Brooklyn minister who gained
nationwide notoriety in the Tawana Brawley case, was freed on $20,000
bail today after pleading not guilty to tax evasion.
Sharpton, 34, evaded $35,000 in taxes by filing no state tax
return in 1986 and a false return in 1987, prosecutors said at a
court hearing in Albany.
On Thursday, Sharpton was arraigned in Manhattan on a related
indictment charging him with more than 60 counts of fraud, grand
larceny and falsification of business records. State Attorney
General Robert Abrams, who obtained both indictments, said Sharpton
misappropriated at least $250,000 from the National Youth Movement,