Al Sharpton Was an FBI Informant in the ‘80s: Report
Al Sharpton said Tuesday that a report that he spied on New York Mafia figures for the FBI in the 1980s is old news. He says he was never an informant.
“In my own mind I was not an informant,” Sharpton said. “I was cooperating with an investigation.”
Sharpton called a news conference at his Harlem headquarters to talk about a story posted Monday on the website The Smoking Gun that said he had recorded conversations with mobsters.
The site said Sharpton was recruited by a police-FBI task force to record conversations with Mafia figures using electronic equipment hidden in a briefcase. It said Sharpton was known as CI-7, or Confidential Informant No. 7, in court papers.
Sharpton said he went to the FBI after he was threatened by mobsters working in the music business and said, “Nothing new about that story.”
Sharpton acknowledged using a recording device in a briefcase but said he did nothing wrong.
“In this situation I did what was right,” he said.
The Smoking Gun posted dozens of pages of documents that it said showed Sharpton’s dealings with mob figures. Sharpton said his lawyers would review the documents.
This article appeared in print on page 14 of edition of Hamodia.
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