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Under Investigation, ACORN Chief Bertha Lewis Quits Working Families Party
With national scrutiny on ACORN and local scrutiny on the Working Families Party, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis quietly departed as state co-chair of the Working Families Party.

Lewis was a founding co-chair of the Party. According to Working Families spokesman Dan Levitan, Lewis stopped serving as co-chair "about a year ago," though many people familiar with the Party were unaware of that change and Lewis was identified as a current co-chair in an interview on WNYCs The Brian Lehrer Show as recently as September.
I think we can safely assume, then, that a rigorous definition of "about a year ago" would have bounds of unknown size subsequent to that interview last September. Well done, O Reporter!
The change in leadership comes as the Working Families Party and many of its endorsed candidates are providing extensive email and other documentation in response to December subpoenas from the United States Attorneys office in New York. Lawyers are also preparing to return to Staten Island Supreme Court on Feb. 23 for the lawsuit being brought against the WFPs company, Data & Field Services, and the campaign of now-Council Member Debi Rose by Randy Mastro on behalf of five Republican-connected residents of her Staten Island district.

The lawsuit, however, may not be the only legal action on the horizon. The trial was stopped short in January by Judge Anthony Giacobbe after Rose's treasurer, David Thomas testified that he had neither written nor was familiar with the information provided in affidavits to the Campaign Finance Board. That may result in attention from Staten Island District Attorney Dan Donovan--"there's a very strong possibility of a perjury case here," according to local legal sources.
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Posted by: Jegum Flunter4789 2010-02-08
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=289936