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Friday, January 13, 2012

Mother Crusader: Pants on Fire

Mother Crusader: Pants on Fire:

Pants on Fire

Tikun Olam lead applicant Sharon Akman responded to a reporter yesterday for the first time in months. Walt Kane from News Channel 12 did a Kane in Your Corner segment last night as a follow up to Michael Winerip's NY Times Column which detailed the misrepresentations in the application. I guess a guy at your door with a camera and a microphone is more intimidating than a disembodied print journalist sending emails or making calls, even if he is from the NY Times.


While she wouldn't be interviewed on camera, she did speak to him on the phone. When asked about the numerous misrepresentations in her application Akman stated:


"We're not misrepresenting anybody. If they subsequently changed their mind about