NATIONAL BRIEFING / NEW YORK
The Rev. Al Sharpton said he feels a weight has lifted, now that his long-running battles with the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission are finally resolved.
“This is the first time in years that nothing is hanging over our heads,” he told the Associated Press in a telephone interview.
The FEC announced that Sharpton’s campaign and his civil rights group would pay combined fines of $285,000 for breaking a variety of election finance rules during his 2004 presidential campaign.
The FEC determined, among other things, that Sharpton’s National Action Network had improperly subsidized his political campaign by paying for about $181,115 in expenses that should have been covered by his election committee.
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