Rev. Al Sharpton’s brother, an Alabama anti-police activist described by critics as a “con-artist pastor,” was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Thursday.
Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, 58, pleaded guilty to charged including federal tax evasion, mail fraud, and drug conspiracy charges in February.
Glasgow entered the guilty plea in Montgomery federal court to avoid a trial that was scheduled to take place in March.
Before his arrest, he was a well-known far-Left Alabama activist and had been a frequent critic of the state prison system and police in his hometown.
During that time, Glasgow embezzled at least $407,000 from non-profits The Ordinary People Society and the Prodigal Child Project — and perhaps as much as a million dollars.
Prosecutors said Glasgow admitted not paying income taxes on the hundreds of thousands of dollars he withdrew from the charities and also to claiming Social Security disability benefits by falsely claiming on mailed forms that he had trouble driving.
Prosecutors said Glasgow received traffic citations between 2015 and 2020 relating to approximately 27 different traffic stops, all of which indicated that Glasgow was the driver.
Glasgow has been ordered to repay the $376,000 in disability benefits he illegally collected.
Glasgow also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess cocaine with intent to distribute. Prosecutors in 2021 charged Glasgow and another man with the drug conspiracy charge.
After the hearing, Glasgow’s attorney called the two and a half year prison term “a fair sentence.”
According to The Christian Post —
Glasgow is the son of Sharpton’s father, Al Sharpton Sr., and Sharpton’s older half-sister, Tina Glasgow … Tina Glasgow is one of two children Sharpton’s mother, Ada, had during her first marriage in Alabama.
Tina Glasgow was 16 when she moved in with Sharpton and his parents in the early 1960s in Queens, New York. Sharpton’s father and his half-sister began a sexual relationship. When it was discovered, the two moved out of the home. Glasgow was born in May 1965.
“Kenneth Glasgow’s actions not only endangered the community, but defrauded the American taxpayers,” Paul Brown, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI said in a statement when Glasgow pleaded guilty.
“His guilty plea should help to dissuade others from following this same path.”
The Horn editorial team and the Associated Press contributed to this article