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ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers and Shredding Documents, After Exposed as Players Behind Occupy Wall Street Protests
If they can't take the heat, they should have stayed the fuck out of it.
Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York -- operating as New York Communities for Change -- have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers to blame disgruntled ex-employees for leaking information in an effort to explain away a FoxNews.com report last week on the groups involvement in Occupy Wall Street protests, according to sources.
NYCC also is installing surveillance cameras and recording devices at its Brooklyn offices, removing or packing away supplies bearing the name ACORN and handing out photos of Fox News staff with a stern warning not to talk to the media, the sources said.
Two staffers were fired after NYCC officials suspected them as the source of the leaks, a source told FoxNews.com. One was fired the day the story came out, the other was fired on Friday. (NYCC senior staff) told everyone that they were fired because they talked to you, a source said.
NYCC spokesman Scott Levenson denied that anyone was fired for talking to the press.
They reminded us that we can get fired, sued, arrested for talking to the press, the source said. Then they went through the article point-by-point and said that the allegation that we pay people to protest isnt true.
Thats the story that were sticking to, Westin said, according to the source.
The source said staffers at the meeting contested Westins denial:
It was pretty funny. Jonathan told staff they dont pay for protesters, but the people in the meeting who work there objected and said, Wait, you pay us to go to the protests every day? Then Jonathan said No, but thats your job, and staffers were like, Yeah, our job is to protest, and Westin said, No your job is to fight for economic and social justice. We just send you to protest.
If they can't take the heat, they should have stayed the fuck out of it.