Federal officials said Friday that an Alabama minister who is the half-brother of the Rev. Al Sharpton was given a five-year prison sentence for tax evasion, mail fraud, and drug conspiracy.
In February 2023, Kenneth Cherden Glasgow, who used to go by the name Kenneth Sharpton Glasgow, admitted to the acts.
A minister in Dothan named Glasgow, who is 58 years old, started two non-profit groups called The Ordinary Peoples Society and Prodigal Child Project.
He asked other nonprofits and foundations for donations and told them and the IRS that the money would be used for good causes, according to court papers used by federal prosecutors in Montgomery.
But instead, Glasgow took more than $407,000 out of one of the group’s bank accounts in 2018 and used the money for himself.
Prosecutors said that he should have included the money as income on his tax return once he used it for personal spending, but he didn’t even file a return that year.
Instead, authorities say, Glasgow gave his tax preparer the wrong information, which led the preparer to fill out tax forms for the nonprofits that greatly understated their income and left out money Glasgow got from them.
Between 2016 and 2019, Glasgow took out more than $1.3 million in cash from TOPS and PCP, but he never put that money on the groups’ or his own tax forms.
He also sent false papers to the Social Security Administration so that he could keep getting disability payments from Social Security and health benefits from Medicare and Medicaid.
The statements said that his physical skills and daily activities were very limited, even though he said on the IRS forms for his nonprofits that he worked 50 to 60 hours a week for them.
He also said he had a lot of physical problems that made it hard for him to drive. However, he admitted that he rented a car with money from nonprofits and listed himself as the only approved driver.
Prosecutors say that Glasgow was given traffic tickets at 27 different traffic stops between February 2015 and August 2020. All of the tickets named Glasgow as the driver.
His term also included a charge of planning to sell cocaine with co-defendant William Frank Peterson, also from Dothan.
Peterson pled guilty to his role in the drugs conspiracy in March.
Glasgow agreed to buy cocaine from Peterson in 2018 and 2019, according to the plea deal he signed.
Peterson is set to be sentenced on August 2.
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