Issa Wants Feds To Probe ACORN Role In Occupy Wall Street

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RYAN J. REILLY NOVEMBER 7, 2011, 5:05 PM
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) wants federal prosecutors in New York to probe media reports alleging that New York Communities for Change (NYCC) — “an organization with close tied to the now-defunct New York chapter of The Association of Community (ACORN) — engaged in fraud through its participation in the Occupy Wall Street protests.”

In a letter to U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch, Issa writes that it is “alleged that NYCC solicited donations from union members under false pretenses and misappropriated those funds to support the protesters. I hope that your office will investigate these allegations to determine if they have any merit and prosecute any wrongdoing accordingly.”

Issa refers to a Fox News story referencing the allegations and a follow up story about the organization allegedly shredding paperwork after the initial piece.

“NYCC’s close relationship with ACRORN and its history of corruption is concerning in its own right, but even worse is NYCC’s fraudulent activity,” Issa wrote. “NYCC misused the money of hardworking union members in order to fund the Occupy Wall Street movement.”

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/issa_wants_feds_to_probe_acorn_role_in_occupy_wall_street.php

:rofl: what a frickin idiot!

[NewJeffCT]

1. what part of "now defunct" doesn't he understand?

:crazy: :silly: :wtf: :dunce:

[mother earth]

2. Issa is an asshole.

[glinda]

20. Issahole.

[mother earth]

29. Quite apt, love it. :)

[mother earth]

30. Quite apt, I love it! :)

[spanone]

3. he's proof that money can't buy a soul

[Mister Ed]

21. I think it bought his long ago. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

4. How come he does not ask for an investigation into the kock

brothers buying the tea party and politicians??

[geardaddy]

5. Issahole.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. Why does Maher treat this jagoff with such deference when he comes on his show? nt

[Lars77]

19. [phone]

[marmar]

7. So says the convicted criminal.

Why are we forced to share oxygen with this organism?

[AtomicKitten]

8. LOL. Good lord what a nincompoop.

[Skidmore]

9. Facts are inconsequential here. ACORN is a dog whistle word

for people of color trying to take over. Recognize it for what it means in the GOP lexicon.

[Enrique]

10. shouldn't the GOP be working on something more important?

isn't there a motto out there that needs re-affirming?

[justgamma]

11. I thought he said Soros was behind it.

What did he claim they did, buy the tents?

[DirkGently]

28. I keep hearing that one too. What's Soros doing, paying people to lose their jobs & homes?

[mmonk]

12. I want the SOB to personally go to OWS and look for ACORN.

[n2doc]

13. Ah yes the all powerful ACORN!

Where's their sidekick Barney Frank? Together they control America!


I guess Rush or Beck must be blowing this crap out their butts lately.

[FrenchieCat]

14. Well of course....

Occupy Wall Street + 99% = Acorn = Black People = Obama

It's all in the math, right Assa? :shrug:

[county worker]

15. Hell if we investigated every thing Faux news says about the left we'd be here till doom's day.

[arbusto_baboso]

16. Arbusto Baboso wants space aliens to probe Issa anally....

with a roto-tiller.

[KamaAina]

17. Has he been huffing glue or something?

His partisan hacks eviscerated ACORN quite some time ago.

Besides, everyone knows it's the Clenis that's behind OWS. :P

[DirkGently]

18. You already murdered ACORN once, Republicans. Digging up the corpse won't help you now.

[vanlassie]

22. Asshat.

[applegrove]

23. The GOP has been desperate to frame OWS for weeks. In this case as ACORN (read poor blacks).

[MindPilot]

24. Is ACORN more powerful than the CLENIS?

As you will recall not too long ago Bill Clinton's manhood was the most powerful force in the universe, able to literally penetrate the fabric of time and impregnate history with the seeds of tax and spend, and anything goes liberalism. And now we have ACORN, a veritable zombie, back from the dead to pimp its progressive whoredom on the free market.

Will they align as the perfect storm of republican's nightmares or will their struggle for for dominance destroy the universe? In the Epic Battle which will prevail?

[tex-wyo-dem]

25. Good gawd...these asshats need some new material...

They seem to be running out of bits. Acorn?! Is he serious?

Actually, this is a good indication of just how desperate they are to pin something on OWS...preferably some well known liberal boogie man like Soros or Gore.

The fact that #OWS has no identifiable central leader is throwing the RW smear machine off their game.

[Laluchacontinua]

26. oh, yeah, acorn, that'll work.

[EFerrari]

27. LOL!