Rev. Al Sharpton, already reportedly under investigation for income tax fraud, is at the center of a series of corporate shakedown rumors. The New York Post has accused the civil rights activist of extorting money out of corporations by threatening to march on their businesses and boycott their services if they do not provide donations to his National Action Network.

“His way of doing things was, ‘If we’re going to support you and you’re not going to support us, then we have to focus on telling the African-American community not to spend their money,’” said La-Van Hawkins, a partner in Hawkins Food Group, which owns and operates fast-food franchises nationwide.