Sharpton Offices Raided:Updated

"Federal authorities have subpoenaed financial records and employees in an apparent probe of the Rev. Al Sharpton's 2004 presidential bid, nonprofit civil rights group, and for-profit businesses, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Federal authorities have subpoenaed financial records and employees in an apparent probe of the Rev. Al Sharpton's 2004 presidential bid, nonprofit civil rights group, and for-profit businesses, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Sharpton agreed in 2005 to repay the government $100,000, plus interest, for taxpayer money he received during his failed effort to win the Democratic presidential nomination the year before, though he denied wrongdoing.

In 1993, Sharpton pleaded guilty to not filing a state income tax return in 1986."

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Sharpton responds:
"I have probably been under every investigation known to man and I can't remember a time that I've not been under investigation," Sharpton said at a hastily called news conference at the Harlem headquarters of his civil rights organization.

"So when this latest story surfaced, it was my inclination to not even respond. The issues raised are issues that we've learned over and over again, particularly when we are approaching an election season."