Car thief Darrell Issa now on CSPAN. Someone call in and ask him about his car theft career.

[liberaldemocrat7]

Ok, have fun.

[Donnachaidh]

1. is there a link to this *career* info?

This is one I hadn't heard of.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. a great site on him on wiki.

they have him down pat.

[Donnachaidh]

3. thanks! n/t

[drbtg1]

5. NOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I'm hurtin' because of that link.

I've got a beautiful Definitive Technology home theater set-up that I bought in 2002. Absolutely wonderful. I thought about upgrading the mains, but Wiki says Issa's Directed bought DefTech in 2004.

Soemtimes knowledge hurts.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Ha Ha. It would be a great moment in C-Span history, wouldn't it?

Here's what I found after seeing your post:

Issa was charged in San Jose car theft
Lance Williams and Carla Marinucci, Chronicle staff writers

Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, the driving force behind the effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis, was prosecuted with his brother in San Jose in 1980 for allegedly faking the theft of Issa's Mercedes Benz sedan and selling it to a car dealer for $16,000, according to court records.

Issa, in a phone interview with The Chronicle Tuesday, blamed his brother for the car theft, which was detailed in documents on file in Santa Clara County Superior Court and which has never been made public.

"I do not steal," Issa said.
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In the San Jose case, Issa, who at the time was a 27-year-old U.S. Army officer, and William Issa, 29, were arrested by San Jose police on a felony auto-theft charge in February 1980.

They were accused of a scheme in which Issa's brother allegedly sold Issa's cherry-red Mercedes 240 to Smythe European Motors in San Jose for $13,000 cash and three $1,000 traveler's checks. Within hours, Issa reported the car stolen from a lot at the Monterey airport, near his Army post at Fort Ord.

Issa and his brother pleaded not guilty. A judge ordered them to stand trial on felony charges, saying he had a "strong suspicion" that the men had committed the crime, according to the records.


CASE DISMISSED
But in August 1980, a prosecutor dismissed the case for lack of evidence. The men later were charged with misdemeanors, but that case was not pursued, said retired police detective Richard Christiansen, lead investigator in the case.

Issa, 49, became a multimillionaire manufacturer of electronic auto alarms, including the popular "Viper" anti-theft device. "When people ask me why I got into the car alarm business, I tell them the truth," he said in a statement to The Chronicle. "It was because my brother was a car thief."
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/06/25/ISSA.TMP

Odd, isn't it? Just another Republican!