And here in New York, Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez has revealed that Reverend Al Sharpton received a half-million-dollar private donation last year at the same time as he launched a campaign to support charter schools. Writing in today’s New York Daily News, Gonzalez reports the money came from a private hedge fund managed by former New York City Schools Chancellor Harold Levy. Sharpton launched the charter school initiative with the current chancellor, Joel Klein. He received the money indirectly at the same time as he began paying some $1 million in back taxes.