{"id":60085,"date":"2025-07-12T17:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60085\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:13:10","slug":"yusuf-salaam-owes-six-figures-in-taxes-despite-speaking-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60085\/","title":{"rendered":"Yusuf Salaam owes six figures in taxes, despite speaking fees"},"content":{"rendered":"

City Councilman Yusef Salaam \u2014 one of the exonerated Central Park Five<\/a> \u2014 owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid federal taxes, despite making big money from speaking fees, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The anti-cop councilman owes between $100,000 and $250,000 to the IRS, his 2024 annual financial disclosure to the city Conflicts of Interest Board shows.<\/p>\n

Salaam, 51, insisted in the forms he is \u201cin the process of repaying all taxes\u201d for the past two years.<\/p>\n

Salaam owes big money to the IRS, financial disclosures reveal. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n

The Harlem pol won his seat in 2023<\/a>, then took office at the start of 2024 \u2014 so it\u2019s not clear when the taxes owed date back to.<\/p>\n

His office declined to comment, and the IRS is\u00a0barred from disclosing tax return information.<\/p>\n

Salaam maintains his mountain of debt despite making a killing in speaking fees since his surprise victory<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n

He charges around $31,000 a pop for a virtual event<\/a> \u2014 and closer to $40,000 to come talk about criminal justice in person.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s had at least 36 speaking engagements since announcing his run in 2023.<\/p>\n

Salaam was 16 when the court proceedings took place in 1990. ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/p>\n

Since taking office last year, he raked in up to $250,000 in fees alone, records show \u2014 on top of the $148,500 salary he gets for his Council gig.<\/a><\/p>\n

The father of 10 also declared getting \u201c$500,000 or more\u201d annually from a trust, estate or other beneficial interest, likely the terms of his 2014 settlement with the city.<\/p>\n

NYC ended up paying $40.75 million to the members of the Central Park Five to\u00a0settle a civil rights suit<\/a>. Salaam\u2019s share was $7.125 million. <\/p>\n

Salaam was arrested along with four other Black and Latino teenagers in the Central Park case in 1989. Andrew Savulich<\/p>\n

Salaam served nearly seven years in prison on the since overturned conviction. NY Post File Photo<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first controversy for the councilman, who\u2019s also chairman of the Public Safety Committee overseeing the NYPD.<\/p>\n

Last year he was caught motoring around the Big Apple with out-of-state license plates<\/a> and alleged illegally tinted windows. He was living in Georgia for six years before running for office in the Big Apple and still had his Peach State plates.<\/p>\n

Salaam says he\u2019s been in the process of repaying all taxes for the past two years. Ron Sachs \u2013 CNP for NY Post<\/p>\n

Salaam has been a vocal critic of the NYPD since being elected and among the lawmakers who\u00a0pushed the controversial \u201cHow Many Stops Act\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that buries cops in paperwork.<\/p>\n

He was one of five Black and Latino teenagers wrongly accused, convicted and imprisoned for the assault and\u00a0rape of a woman jogging in Central Park<\/a>\u00a0in 1989.<\/p>\n

After his arrest at age 15, Salaam served nearly seven years behind bars, before a re-examination of the case led to his conviction being tossed in 2002 \u2014 after career criminal Matias Reyes confessed to the attack and DNA evidence confirmed Reyes\u2019 involvement.<\/p>\n

Reyes had confessed during interrogation to being at the Central Park crime scene, but the admission was later determined to be coerced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City Councilman Yusef Salaam \u2014 one of the exonerated Central Park Five \u2014 owes hundreds of thousands of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,43559,5310,43560,43561,43562,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,618,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-60085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-central-park-five","10":"tag-city-council","11":"tag-criminal-justice-system","12":"tag-disclosure","13":"tag-irs","14":"tag-metro","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkcity","19":"tag-ny","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-taxes","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114841387473829637","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}