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Rev Sharpton downplays claims that he is an FBI informant

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Source:  John Bacon / USA Today The Rev. Al Sharpton is denying claims made by The Smoking Gun  website that he worked as an FBI mob informant in the 1980s. The website, in a voluminous  story  published Monday, said eight federal judges signed wiretap directives based at least in part on information provided by the civil rights leader and MSNBC talk show host. One Genovese crime family member admitted speaking openly to Sharpton about extortion, death threats and other crimes while Sharpton’s FBI-provided briefcase secretly recorded the conversation, the story says. RELATED:  WASHINGTON WATCH: Rev. Al Sharpton Discusses His Weight Loss & Reinvention (VIDEO) The website says its account of Sharpton’s secret life as “CI-7″ — confidential informant number 7 — was based on hundreds of pages of confidential FBI affidavits, documents released by the bureau in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, court records, and extensive interviews with six members of an FBI/N