The resignation occurred Friday
evening and was originally reported Ashley Allen of KCEN (NBC) in Texas.
Justin Nisly, Press Secretary for Enroll America confirmed the
resignation of Christopher Tarango in an emailed statement about the
incident on Friday. No statement can be found on Enroll America's
website.
James
O'Keefe is the Founder and President of Project Veritas, a non-profit
organization dedicated to developing a national network of effective and
courageous undercover citizen journalists. O'Keefe's groundbreaking
investigations have exposed corruption and malfeasance in major
taxpayer-funded institutions, including ACORN, Planned Parenthood,
public education, labor unions, NPR, Medicaid, Organizing for America,
State Election Divisions, Obamaphones, and many other organizations. And
this crucial work continues.
O'Keefe's undercover investigations
have generated media firestorms that frequently prompt state
investigations, federal inquiries, and congressional action.
Investigations into entitlements have led to worker retrainings, firings
and criminal investigations by authorities. Recently, O'Keefe's voter
fraud exposés inspired several states to reform their election laws,
induced high-level resignations in Washington, and forcing FBI and
Department of Justice officials to defend themselves before lawmakers.
Even
the left-Nation wrote, "O'Keefe's influence on voting rights opponents
and legislators alike is particularly jarring." Slate conceded, "O'Keefe
has had more of an impact on the 2012 election than any other
journalist." And O'Keefe succeeded despite constant threats of legal
action from embarrassed State Attorney Generals and relentless
defamation from major media.
In 2013, O'Keefe authored The New
York Times bestselling book Breakthrough: Our Guerilla War to Expose
Fraud and Save Democracy, which tells the true story of subverting a
corrupt and complacent media establishment, surviving many gratuitous
legal challenges, and restoring truth to journalism by successfully
pioneering a new form of guerilla reporting.
O'Keefe is a
graduate of Rutgers University. A congressional resolution was
introduced in 2009 with 31 cosponsors praising him for his work. He is
the recipient of the Robert Novak Award for Journalistic Excellence
(2011), has been named "Fox News Power Player of the Week" twice by
Chris Wallace, and was placed on the Forbes 30 under 30 for media
moguls.
James O'Keefe is one of several speakers coming to
Colorado Springs at Focus on the Family, January 2-4, 2014. Space is
limited, so register today: http://trainingminds.org/action
Ashley Allen with KCEN TV reports
live from Texas that Chris Tarango did not show up to a scheduled
meeting he had and Enroll America finally responds.
NJO: Title, video and caption from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.
Texas Enroll America Communications
Lead Chris Tarango conspires to release private data to help a political
action committee and admits this type of thing has happened in the
past.
Enroll
America is a a Sibelius-linked group dedicated to signing people up for
Obamacare, conspiring to release private data to help a political
action committee.
Sebelius' relationship with Enroll America is
under investigation by a government ethics audit and Cause of Action has
questioned Enroll America's tax-exempt status, asking the attorney
general of Texas to further investigate this matter.
This is the
third video in an investigative series into Obamacare fraud. The first
two videos exposed Obamacare navigators counseling applicants to lie and
cheat the health care system by erroneously reporting income status and
health history.
The full, raw video plays immediately following the exposé.
NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.
Change Happens, 3353 Elgin Street
Houston ,TX 77004
Received: $785,000
NJO: Title, video and caption from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals. The footage here is an edited version of the previous video also titled "Change Happens Raw Footage".
Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:
"Mrs Nedza" (I had it marked down as Sarah Bushong in this one but now I'm pretty sure I was in error about that.)
NORTH Texas Area Community Health Center
2100N. Main St. Suit109 Fort Worth, TX 76164
Received: $139,487
NJO: Title, video and caption from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.
Upon being uploaded, this video briefly had the erroneous title "NORTH Texas Area Community Health Center Raw Footage". The caption reflects this error: The video was not taken in Fort Worth but in Houston.
Minions / fellow culture warriors involved:
"Mrs Nedza" (I had it marked down as Sarah Bushong in this one but now I'm pretty sure I was in error about that.)
Today
Project Veritas released a second investigation exposing more Obamacare
navigators counseling applicants to lie and cheat the health care
system by erroneously reporting income status, health history, and more.
Critics
said the first video was an isolated incident so we decided to visit
with even more navigators funded by your American tax dollars. What we
found was disturbing and showed a clear pattern of fraud through the
Obamacare navigator program.
http://amzn.to/10SdbHd
Order BREAKTHROUGH today. The Obama Administration's campaign to sign
everyone up for government healthcare inspired Project Veritas to go
straight to the source and investigate what's really going on.
What
we found is shocking: navigators, in positions of public trust, told
our undercover journalists to lie and defraud the government. Over and
over again.
Yes, as if the roll-out of Obamacare hasn't been
disastrous enough, Project Veritas has caught Obamacare navigators
counseling citizens to lie about their income and deceive the IRS,
commit fraud on applications by not reporting full health history, and
worse.
Despite reassurances that "fraud could not be committed," clearly, that is not the case.
Obamacare Navigators counseled applicants by saying:
"You lie because your premiums will be higher."
"Never report it ... I always lie on my applications."
"It didn't happen."
NJO: Title, video and blurb from James O'Keefe's YouTube channel VeritasVisuals.