Al Sharpton's 2004 presidential campaign is still in debt (updated)

Nine years later and the MSNBC host's failed campaign is still more than $1 million in the red.

WFB reports:

The campaign still owes the Federal Election Commission (FEC) more than $200,000 in fines for a litany of nearly decade-old election law violations, a new quarterly FEC report details.

The campaign’s outstanding debts, including its FEC fine, total $925,713.78, according to its most recent quarterly report. [...]

The FEC fined Sharpton’s campaign $285,000 in 2009 for a host of violations committed during the 2004 race. According to the campaign’s latest filing, it still owes the commission $208,000.

The fines were the result of an FEC complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center. Ken Boehm, who drafted the complaint, said news of Sharpton’s outstanding debts do not come as a surprise.

“While Al Sharpton’s public image has been as a racial demagogue, he also has a long record stiffing creditors and thumbing his nose at the law, Boehm told the Washington Free Beacon in an email.

“In this FEC case, Sharpton has done both,” Boehm wrote.

Update: President Obama's campaign is also still in debt -- to the tune of $3.5 million.