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11/7/2011
You’ve got to love Darrell Issa and the House Oversight Committee. After Fox News exposed ACORN’s role in the Occupy movement, Issa and crew are purusing an investigation into the misappropriation of of funds collected by ACORN that were meant to benefit charities, not the Occupy ilk. Fox News reports:
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa is calling for an investigation into allegations that ACORN-related group New York Communities for Change “engaged in fraud through its participation in the Occupy Wall Street protests.”
In a letter dated Monday, Issa, R-Calif., called for U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch of the Eastern District of New York to launch a probe into allegations first reported by FoxNews.com that NYCC may have “solicited donations from union members under false pretenses and misappropriated those funds to support the protesters.”
In an Oct. 26. report, FoxNews.com quoted sources within NYCC who said that the group — run and staffed by nearly all former ACORN employees — was asking for donations for specific charitable purposes, including for the teachers union and PCB toxin testing in New York City schools.
However, those donations were being rerouted to pay for Occupy Wall Street protests, the sources said.
Issa requests Lynch to “investigate these allegations to determine if they have merit and prosecute any wrongdoing accordingly.”…
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