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Darrell Issa’s Lies Create an Uncomfortable Scrutiny of His Criminal Background (LINK FIXED)
Darrell Issas Lies Create an Uncomfortable Scrutiny of His Criminal Background
Ari Melber, co-host of The Cycle, joined Martin Bashir on his show Thursday evening to denounce Darrell Issas unprecedented behavior and charges toward Obama and Eric Holder. Ari pointed out that Issas unfounded accusations have caused several journalists to begin digging into his checkered past. Its not pretty.
People in glass houses
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Darrell Issa’s Lies Create an Uncomfortable Scrutiny of His Criminal Background (LINK FIXED) (Original Post)
Tx4obama
May 2013
OP
Let's see, I don't think Issa has released all the information we need on himself. We need to
Thinkingabout
May 2013
#10
"Sounds as though the man's *torching* his own position as head of that very oversight committee."
pacalo
May 2013
#11
I will gladly bump for more scrutiny on Issa. I am as happy to type the words scrutiny on Issa
silvershadow
May 2013
#16
donco
(1,548 posts)1. your link goes
to post page.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)4. Link up in OP is fixed now. Sorry about that :(
gateley
(62,683 posts)2. Ooooh -- thanks! I'd seen a reference (but no real info)
on Issa's "record", so I'm looking forward to seeing this.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)6. I fixed the link up in the OP, sorry about that.
gateley
(62,683 posts)12. Got it -- thanks!!
immoderate
(20,885 posts)3. Got a link that works?
--imm
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)5. Link up in OP is fixed now. Sorry about that :(
immoderate
(20,885 posts)7. Thank you kindly!
--imm
patrice
(47,992 posts)8. K&R& Shared.
Cha
(297,240 posts)9. Yeah, how'd that work out for him?..
Naturally, this is the man the Republicans vested with total power to investigate the Obama administration for any reason at any time. You dont appoint someone with actual ethics to do your dirty work, because, well, that wouldnt work. Now that he had been given the power to subpoena, investigate, and harass the Obama Administration, Issa was being described as a future leader of his partyand the man most likely to weaken the President before the 2012 election
thanks Tx
thanks Tx
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)10. Let's see, I don't think Issa has released all the information we need on himself. We need to
subpoena his records and have a hearing. I wonder how he will survive this trash on himself, just what we need a criminal in Congress. Probably why he would be against criminal background checks.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)17. Doesn't matter
Boehner said he wanted to know who was going to jail and now we have a head to hand him.
Sam
pacalo
(24,721 posts)11. "Sounds as though the man's *torching* his own position as head of that very oversight committee."
I love Bashir's biting humor.
Issa's "rap sheet":
1. Issa was arrested for stealing a red Masserati.
2. Issa was later arrested in another incident for having a .25 Colt & 44 rounds of ammo & a tear gas gun with two rounds of ammo for it.
3. While in the Army, Issa was arrested again for car theft; this time, he was indicted for grand theft.
4. Soon after evading prosecution for grand theft, Issa committed a "hit & run".
5. As owner of a car alarm factory, Issa fired an employee by giving him a box with a gun in it.
6. Officials highly suspected, but were unable to prove, that Issa committed arson of his factory.
Issa's "rap sheet":
1. Issa was arrested for stealing a red Masserati.
2. Issa was later arrested in another incident for having a .25 Colt & 44 rounds of ammo & a tear gas gun with two rounds of ammo for it.
3. While in the Army, Issa was arrested again for car theft; this time, he was indicted for grand theft.
4. Soon after evading prosecution for grand theft, Issa committed a "hit & run".
5. As owner of a car alarm factory, Issa fired an employee by giving him a box with a gun in it.
6. Officials highly suspected, but were unable to prove, that Issa committed arson of his factory.
MARTIN BASHIR: Just on that, sorry, before we move off, that warehouse and that fire seemed to coincide with him just before the fire raising his insurance policy from $100,000 to $400,000.
ARI MELBER: Thats right. He took out a significant increase in the insurance and there was also an accident report that The New Yorker discovered that talked about the fact that the nature of the fire didnt match up with the kind of kind of accidental arson nonarson, I should say, accidental fire that could have occurred.
ARI MELBER: Thats right. He took out a significant increase in the insurance and there was also an accident report that The New Yorker discovered that talked about the fact that the nature of the fire didnt match up with the kind of kind of accidental arson nonarson, I should say, accidental fire that could have occurred.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)13. In Issa's defense, he didn't bilk the insurance company.
Of course, that's because the company was very suspicious of the fire and refused to pay more than a fraction of the claim:
Joey Adkins, the former owner of Steal Stopper, provided the main evidence against Issa. On the afternoon of September 20, 1982, in a lengthy recorded interview with an insurance investigator, he described a series of suspicious actions by Issa before the fire. Adkins, who still worked for Steal Stopper, said that Issa removed the companys Apple II computer from the building, including all hardware, all software, all the instruction books, and also the discs for accounts payable, accounts receivable, customer list, everything. According to Adkins, Issa also transferred a copy of every design used by Steal Stopper from a filing cabinet to a fireproof box. He also said that Issa put in the box some important silk screens used in the production of circuit boards. Insurance officials noted that, less than three weeks before the fire, Issa had increased his insurance from a hundred thousand dollars to four hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars. Quite frankly, Adkins told the investigator, I feel the man set the fire.
The Ohio state fire marshal never determined the cause of the fire and no one was ever charged with a crime. According to Issa, St. Paul paid Quantum twenty-five thousand dollars, but refused to pay his claim for the Steal Stopper inventory. Issa sued St. Paul for a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, and the two parties eventually settled out of court for about twenty thousand dollars. (from "Don't Look Back", in The New Yorker) (emphasis added)
The Ohio state fire marshal never determined the cause of the fire and no one was ever charged with a crime. According to Issa, St. Paul paid Quantum twenty-five thousand dollars, but refused to pay his claim for the Steal Stopper inventory. Issa sued St. Paul for a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, and the two parties eventually settled out of court for about twenty thousand dollars. (from "Don't Look Back", in The New Yorker) (emphasis added)
IOW, on a policy for $462k, he collected $45k. Someone didn't want that case to go to trial.
Segami
(14,923 posts)14. Just another punk crook in a cheap suit!
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)15. It would be really nice if that scum bucket took a fall
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)16. I will gladly bump for more scrutiny on Issa. I am as happy to type the words scrutiny on Issa
any chance I legitimately get as I am to type the words Joe Scarborough's dead intern any chance I get when the opportunity arises.
Samantha
(9,314 posts)18. When you look into the abyss
yada yada yada....
Issa has been staring it down for decades.
Sam
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)19. .
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