Claim: Orly Taitz discovered a hidden connection between Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch and former Attorney General Eric Holder.
 | TRUE: Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch was a sorority sister of former Attorney General Eric Holder's wife. |
 | FALSE: The connection between Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder was concealed until Orly Taitz uncovered it. |
Example: [Collected via Twitter, November 2014]
Is Loretta Lynch really a Harvard sorority sister of Sharon Malone (wife of AG Eric Holder)? #CoverUpContinues
Can you verify Loretta Lynch is an old college friend of Sharon Malone, the wife of the current AG Eric Holder.
Origins: On
Taitz (one of the most prominent proponents of "birther" conspiracies) published a claim on her website about President Obama's appointment of federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch to fill the position vacated by former Attorney General Eric Holder. According to Taitz, the name Sharon Malone (the name of Eric Holder's wife) in relation to Loretta Lynch "rang a bell," inspiring her to dust off her gumshoes and investigate the connections between Lynch, Malone, and Holder.
Taitz published her findings on
The name of the wife of AG Holder is Sharon Malone, she is the sister of a known civil rights leader Vivien I checked the age: both were born in 1959 and both went to Harvard at the same time. There were very few African American students in Harvard in
I started investigating Loretta Lynch, Obama's pick for Attorney General and immediately could see an interesting connection. I read an article stating that when Loretta Lynch started Harvard, she
The wording suggested a degree of record checking and date confirming was necessary to smoke out the
Taitz went on to suggest the existing relationship between Lynch and Holder (and the implied coverup) could jeopardize Lynch's investigation of such important matters as Taitz's long-since debunked claim that President Obama stole the Social Security number of a dead person:
Why this connection is important? Holder covered up Obama's use of a stolen CT Social Security number of
What Taitz either overlooked or left out is that a Washington Post profile of Lynch, published a full day earlier than Taitz's allegedly shocking revelation, had already openly discussed the history between Lynch, Malone, and Holder:
Decades later, Lynch, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn,
When the African American Delta Sigma Theta sorority chapter was established at Harvard College in 1980, its first members included two undergraduates named Loretta Lynch and Sharon Malone.
The
At Harvard, where Lynch was a sorority sister of Malone, now a Washington obstetrician/gynecologist, she studied hard. But Lynch also had her share of fun, as evidenced by a photograph that U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia Timothy Heaphy included in a slide show he presented to Justice officials at a conference two years ago, highlighting where they were "back in the day."
That article was syndicated to the Chicago Tribune on the same day it was published in the Washington Post. Taitz may not have been aware of the articles trumpeting Lynch's connection to Holder's spouse when she published her claims; but given that the connection between the two women was specifically pointed out in stories run by major newspapers prior to Taitz's
Last updated: 19 November 2014
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Horwitz, Sari. "Attorney General Nominee Lynch Called 'The Soul of Grace Under Pressure." Washington Post. 8 November 2014.