ACORN Source on 'Occupy' Movement : We're 'Paid to Go to the Protests Every Day'

"Occupy" protesters at Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Atlanta, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Chicago and other Occupy protest movements across the country have issued press statements about protesting due to a number of things, including big banks, unemployment and other ills. But a source within ACORN told Fox News on Thurs., Oct. 27 that the "Occupy" movement has employed people to keep the protest movement alive and staffed with bodies to carry protest signs.

"Everything we've been working on for the last year is going to the protests, against big banks, and to pay people's salaries -- and those people on salary are, of course, being paid to go to the protests everyday," an NYCC staff member told Fox News.

NYCC, New York Communities for Change is just the new name for ACORN, according to Fox, as the disbanded Acorn offices reorganized under new names in 2009.

In fact, Fox says that the former director of New York's Acorn, Jon Kest, along with his top aides, have been busy working protest events for NYCC this year. That's counter to what the "Occupy" movement is supposed to be about: the unemployed and poor.

As many as 100 former ACORN-affiliated workers in other cities are being paid as much as $100 a day to come and take part in Occupy Wall Street, sources within the organization told Fox.

"I went to the protest every day for two weeks and made $10 an hour," one source said. "They made me carry NYCC signs,' the female source added, and 'We went to protests in and around Zuccotti Park, then to the big Times Square protest."

But that's not the worst of it, this particular source says NYCC is having protest workers canvas for money as well, to keep the movement going, and they are doing it deceptively, she told Fox.

"Now they have me canvassing on Long Island for money, so I get the money and then the money is being used for Occupy Wall Street -- to pay for all of it."

If Occupy Wall Street and other "Occupy" movements in the U.S. are being funded by ACORN, a group that lost federal funding when Congress took issue with expose videos of their previous conduct, it sheds a new light on the limits some will go to further their own agendas.

It also supports the speculation earlier this year that the movement was being funded -- and orchestrated -- by more than Americans just getting together for a common cause.