RUSH: ‘The IRS yesterday hit several employees and consultants of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s civil-rights organization,’ the National Action Network, ‘with subpoenas demanding a wide range of documents as part of an ongoing investigation, sources said. Charlie King, acting executive director of Sharpton’s National Action Network, said he did not know the nature of the investigation, but noted that Sharpton himself was not among the four people he knew to have received the subpoenas. The Internal Revenue Service probe is the latest in a long line of investigations into Sharpton and the National Action Network, his Harlem-based nonprofit group, over the years. ‘Here we go again,’ said Sharpton, who claimed that prior probes have suspiciously come to public light when he was in the midst of making political moves. ‘This is more smearing. I’m getting ready to make a presidential endorsement. How many state and federal investigations have you been through with me? Whatever it is, it’s part of the territory. I’m a public figure,” and then…
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