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DU Fraudster Will Pitt Publicly Corrected by TurboTax for Posting False Hacking 'Scoop'
NewsBusters ^ | February 6, 2015 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 02/06/2015 12:59:23 PM PST by PJ-Comix

Notorious fraudster William Rivers Pitt has posted yet another false "scoop" at the Democratic Underground. No, nothing yet about Karl Rove being indicted. That was guaranteed in his May 2006 "scoop" and we are still waiting 24 business hours for this mythical event to materialize. This time around Pitt posted a "scoop" about TurboTax supposedly being hacked. One little problem; it wasn't true. And a TurboTax spokesperson even posted on Pitt's thread about the truth of the matter due to the misinformation spread on the Web by Pitt's veracity challenged "scoop."

One fringe benefit is that Pitt has once again turned himself into a laughingstock and provided a great deal of mirth both to outsiders as well as among his fellow DUers. We shall take a look at Pitt's public mocking on DU but first here is the false, I repeat, false scoop that Pitt carelessly posted:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: april15th; democratunderground; du; dummies; scoop; turbotax; williamriverspitt; willpitt
Meanwhile, Pitt's ObamaCare Anthem account most likely was hacked. Fear for your Trust Fund account, Pitt!
1 posted on 02/06/2015 12:59:23 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

I have a distant cousin just like him. Trust fund kid. Just completely whacked out.


2 posted on 02/06/2015 1:03:10 PM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Turbo tax should sue him blind.


3 posted on 02/06/2015 1:11:04 PM PST by Not now, Not ever! (Girlfriend suggested I use pelousy in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
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To: Not now, Not ever!

He’s a Liberal, he’s already blind.


4 posted on 02/06/2015 1:13:21 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Meanwhile, the local Madistan CBS station has this:
http://www.channel3000.com/money/state-reviewing-tax-returns-in-response-to-turbotax-fraud-concern/31131440


5 posted on 02/06/2015 1:20:54 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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6 posted on 02/06/2015 2:14:55 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Al Sharpton: Accidental Anti-Tax Crusader (Cough Cough, Ahem)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3254883/posts


7 posted on 02/06/2015 2:54:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary men)
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Can’t Turbo Tax sue this ape for damages? I mean, what can be worse for an on-line tax service than for people to think it might have been hacked? It could cost them millions of dollars in lost business.


8 posted on 02/06/2015 3:24:24 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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