16 days ago, Romney campaign "Social Media Director" Bill Murphy stopped tweeting -- within a few of days of a report at The Democratic Daily alleging that he ran a sham non-profit, and detailing his involvement with convicted felon -- and new Romney staffer -- Ali Akbar.
So where is Bill Murphy? And what exactly do these charges against him amount to?
Has he been fired for fraud?
Hard to tell what's going on with Bill Murphy, because no reporter seems to have pinned down anyone at the Romney campaign. Nothing in the news.
@billmurphy doesn't respond to tweets asking about his status with the Romney campaign. And not to put too fine a point on this, but he's the Social Media Director, for pete's sake, so suddenly disappearing from Twitter probably isn't in the job description.
Blogger Alex Brandt-Zawaski has issued no corrections to his September 1 post, in which he flatly alleges fraud by Bill Murphy and Ali Akbar:
Bill Murphy, Mitt Romney’s Social Media Director, and his colleague Ali Akbar have ripped off a lot of people. They ripped off the Tea Party with the American Liberty Alliance. They ripped off movement Conservatives with the National Bloggers Club. They even ripped off Andrew Breitbart. But their days of making it rain misbegotten right-wing dollars may be numbered.
Alex Brant-Zawaski found Ali Akbar's criminal record, and wrote that the supposed 501c3 where he and Murphy worked together,
the American Liberty Alliance isn't a 501c3 at all. What's more, the "non-profit" the
National Bloggers Club wasn't a non-profit, either.
But it's the Breitbart stuff that has a lot of right-wingers fit to be tied:
In a video taken at NBC’s Remember Breitbart event, Akbar goes so far as to say, “We’re going to do what we can to take care of Susie [Breitbart] and the kids.”
Who knows where the cash collected for Andrew Breitbart's family went?
Lots of folks are angry at Murphy and Akbar -- and just a couple of days before this story ran, Bill Murphy suddenly stopped tweeting.
Will someone in the MSM please get some questions and answer on the record?
Where is Bill Murphy?
Has he been fired, or quit?
Are he and Akbar associated with the campaign any more?
And if not, why not?