He since co-founded Demand Progress, a million-member civil liberties and civil rights organizing outfit, where he serves as executive director.
"A light bulb went off and I realized that there's got to be a better way to find and organize outfits," Mr. Porges said.
Most political organizing outfits are registered as a 501(c)(4), meaning they are not a profit-making enterprise but contributions are not tax deductible (only contributions to charitable organizations are tax deductible).
The hackers, who referred to customers as "cheating dirtbags who deserve no discretion", appear uninterested in blackmailing individual clients, unlike an organized crime outfit.
Mr. Leighton was active in civil rights and represented Sam Giancana, a mobster and the head of Chicago's organized crime outfit, convincing a judge that the Federal Bureau of Investigation needed to limit its surveillance of Mr. Giancana.
Then Scob helpfully sends all that useful data to an organized crime outfit in Russia, possibly for resale at online bazaars where criminals buy and sell such secret fare.
This week, the IRS revealed a mass data theft carried out by hackers who stole the personal details from some 100,000 American tax payers in an elaborate scheme by an organized criminal outfit to try and claim fraudulent tax returns.
To him, it's about fairness – his one-man organizing outfit is called the Project on Fair Representation – and ensuring that the stain of racial animus that looms so large over American history is forever consigned to the dustbin.
With sizable grants from the National Geographic Society, he organized and outfitted a sixty-person team.
After Benny had read Balzac's "The Thirteen," he wanted to organize an outfit like that here in New York, and the members were to call themselves Mentoc rates.
