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Obama Justice Department Shut Down Federal ACORN Investigation

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:33:24 +0000

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced that it has obtained documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) detailing federal investigations into the alleged corrupt activities of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)! The documents reference serious allegations of corruption and voter registration fraud by ACORN as well as the Obama administration’s decision to shut down a criminal investigation without filing criminal charges.

The documents include background information on two specific complaints filed in October 2008 by Lucy Corelli and Joseph Borges, Republican Registrars of Voters in Stamford and Bridgeport, Connecticut, respectively, during the 2008 election season.

According to Corelli, on August 1, 2008, her office received 1,200 ACORN voter registration cards from the Secretary of State’s office. Over 300 of these cards were rejected because of “duplicates, underage, illegible and invalid addresses,” which “put a tremendous strain on our office staff and caused endless work hours at taxpayers’ expense.” Corelli claimed the total cost of the extra work caused by ACORN corruption was $20,000. Likewise, Borges contended that: “The organization ACORN during the summer of 2008 conducted a registration drive which has produced over 100 rejections due to incomplete forms and individuals who are not citizens…” Among the examples cited by Borges was a seven-year old child who was registered to vote by ACORN through the use of a forged signature and a fake birth certificate claiming she was 27-years old.

The FBI and Department of Justice opened an investigation. However, the Obama Justice Department, while noting that ACORN had engaged in “questionable hiring and training practices,” closed down the investigation in March 2009, claiming ACORN broke no laws.

By contrast, the documents also include records related to a federal investigation of ACORN corruption in St. Louis, Missouri, involving 1,492 allegedly fraudulent voter registration cards submitted by Project Vote, a liberal non-profit organization affiliated with ACORN on voter registration drives, during the 2006 election season. Assistant United States Attorney Hal Goldsmith initiated the investigation with “concurrence” from the Department of Justice and the participation of the FBI. According to a Justice Department memo, Goldsmith “advised he would prosecute any individual responsible for submitting fraudulent voter registration cards.” Goldsmith identified the statute for prosecution: Title 42, USC 1973 (gg), which provides for criminal penalties for fraudulent voter registrations. In April 2008, eight former ACORN employees from the St. Louis office pled guilty to voter registration fraud.

Other documents show that the Bush Justice Department failed to prosecute ACORN voter registration fraud of non-citizens in Phoenix, Arizona in 2007 because the allegations that led to the opening of the investigation were “unverifiable.” Notably, the FBI document detailing this questionable decision reveals that a “draft Intelligence Bulletin…concludes that ACORN’s employment practices perpetuate fraudulent voter registration.”

The ACORN documents uncovered by Judicial Watch include internal FBI memoranda, signed affidavits, subpoenas, fraudulent voter registration cards, and publications describing ACORN’s policies and practices. The documents also include details regarding numerous allegations of corruption extending beyond voter registration fraud, to include attempts by ACORN employees to coerce workers to participate in campaign activities on behalf of Democratic candidates.

“These documents reflect systematic voter registration fraud by ACORN,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “It is a scandal that there has been no comprehensive criminal investigation and prosecution by the Justice Department into this evident criminal conduct. Given President Obama’s close connections to ACORN, including his campaign’s hiring of the ACORN’s Project Vote organization, it seems rather obvious why Attorney General Holder has failed to seriously investigate these and other alleged ACORN criminal activities.”

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Maryland Court Dismisses ACORN Suit vs. James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles and Breitbart.com

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:20:18 +0000

According to Copyrights & Campaigns and Big Government, a state court in Baltimore has dismissed ACORN’s lawsuit against James O’Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Breitbart.com after the plaintiffs failed to serve the complaint on the defendants within Maryland’s 120-day limit. I guess they are as lazy as in serving court documents, as in real life.

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It was with great fanfare that ACORN, along with two recently-fired employees of its Baltimore office, sued last September over thesurreptitious taping of the employees advising O’Keefe and Giles on running a prostitution business out of a house. ACORN’s general counsel, Arthur Schwartz, told the Washington Post at the time that the defendants, young filmmakers O’Keefe and Giles, plus Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart.com LLC, which disseminated the videos, had committed “clear violations of Maryland law” against audio recording without consent from all parties. But ACORN appears to have lost interest in the case since filing it, confirming my suspicion that it was little more than a press release on pleading paper.

Under Maryland Rule 2-507(b), “An action against any defendant who has not been served or over whom the court has not otherwise acquired jurisdiction is subject to dismissal as to that defendant at the expiration of 120 days from the issuance of original process directed to that defendant.” That’s exactly what the court did March 4, with no apparent notice from the media that covered the filing of the lawsuit. The court’s dismissal was without prejudice, meaning that the plaintiffs could theoretically re-file. But, as I argued shortly after it was filed, the lawsuit has substantive flaws that go well beyond the plaintiffs’ apparent lack of interest in pursuing it.

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ACORN slated to get nearly $4 billion in Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:45:06 +0000

I saw this originally on ACORN Watch Report, which linked to the original story at the Washington Times. Upon reading this, my blood boiled. It seems that not only are all the outrageous earmarks in Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget, but ACORN, the embezzlement-prone, voter-registration-fraud-plagued, child prostitution promoting, leftist community organizing group, is slated to receive nearly $4 billion from a taxpayer-funded slush fund!

The money will come from the Community Development Block Grant, one of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s longest-running programs. The HUD Web site cryptically defines the grant’s purpose as providing “communities with resources to address a wide range of unique community development needs,” not a reassuring description given the group’s recent past history of aiding the community through gratuitous missappropriation of funds.

Has Congress already forgotten the Sept. 2009 ban it passed on ACORN and ACORN-afiliate funding? Or the video that led to the ban, footage showing ACORN employees urging individuals they thought were a prostitute and her pimp to set up a brothel and advising the pair on evading taxpaying? It would have had a hard time doing so, cosidering that ACORN is currently suing the federal government for the attempted ban.

Though the largely Democratic House Appropriations Committee voted against the block last December, it is a Bill Clinton-appointee, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Gershon, who has truly aided the corrupt ACORN cause. Also in December, Gershon issued a federal injunction against the Congressional funding ban, crying that it ran afoul of the Constitution because under the ban, ACORN was “singled out by Congress for punishment that directly and immediately affects their ability to continue to obtain federal funding, in the absence of any judicial, or even administrative, process adjudicating guilt.”

In essence, Gershon has said ACORN can’t be punished now because the Obama administration failed to punish it earlier–through a long-overdue, much-needed criminal investigation into the group. But this is absurd, because ACORN’s not receiving such funding does not constitute its being deprived of a right. The funding is a gift, and Congress has the right to cancel contracts whenever it feels like it.

Just ask Blackwater, a company we are wondering whether Gershon would so heroically rush to defend were it to make the same move ACORN is now making.

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Wow! James O’Keefe arrested in alleged wiretap plot at Mary Landrieu’s office

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:14:32 +0000

According to Michelle Malkin, today in New Orleans, the FBI arrested four people, including James O’Keefe who gained fame for releasing the now infamous Acorn pimping and prostution tapes of under-aged El-Salvadorean girls. The alleged plot he was arrested for was to wiretap Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu’s office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building in downtown New Orleans. NoLa has more:

Also arrested were Joseph Basel, Stan Dai and Robert Flanagan, all 24. Flanagan is the son of William Flanagan, who is the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, the office confirmed. All four were charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.

According to the FBI affidavit, Flanagan and Basel entered the federal building at 500 Poydras Street about 11 a.m. Monday, dressed as telephone company employees, wearing jeans, fluorescent green vests, tool belts, and hard hats. When they arrived at Landrieu’s 10th floor office, O’Keefe was already in the office and had told a staffer he was waiting for someone to arrive.

When Flanagan and Basel entered the office, they told the staffer they were there to fix phone problems. At that time, the staffer, referred to only as Witness 1 in the affadavit, observed O’Keefe positioning his cell phone in his hand to videotape the operation. O’Keefe later admitted to agents that he recorded the event.

After being asked, the staffer gave Basel access to the main phone at the reception desk. The staffer told investigators that Basel manipulated the handset. He also tried to call the main office phone using his cell phone, and said the main line wasn’t working. Flanagan did the same.

They then told the staffer they needed to perform repair work on the main phone system and asked where the telephone closet was located. The staffer showed the men to the main General Services Administration office on the 10th floor, and both went in. There, a GSA employee asked for the men’s credentials, after which they stated they left them in their vehicle.

The U.S. Marshal’s Service apprehended all four men shortly thereafter.

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ACORN Qualifies for Funding in Senate Health Care Bill

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:22:51 +0000

According to the Weekly Standard, Senator Roland Burris who was appointed by Blago to take Obama’s vacated Senate seat is claiming credit for a provision in Harry Reid’s “manager’s amendment,” unveiled Saturday morning, that could funnel money to ACORN through the health care bill.

On December 9, Burris, an Illinois Democrat, pledged that he would filibuster a health care bill without a public option. “If we have to get 60 and it comes back and it does not have a public option in it, I will not vote for it,” he said. Then early last week he said he could vote for the bill if there were changes made to achieve the goals of the public option: “until this bill addresses cost, competition, and accountability in a meaningful way—it will not win [my vote].”

Asked last night before the Senate voted why he was planning to support a bill without a public option, Burris said: “We have a great bill–the best we could get. And it also covers most of our concerns: competition, cost, and accountability.” But had anything specifically changed in the text of the bill that helped him change his mind? Burris told THE WEEKLY STANDARD: “It was the disparity provision that was put in, which we had something to do with, in terms of making sure that diabetes and the other diseases that are affecting minorities are really studied by HHS in all of these pilot programs.”

The provision he cites, found on pages 240 through 248 of the manager’s amendment, requires that six different agencies each establish an “Office of Minority Health.” The agencies are the “Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.”

According to page 241 of the amendment:

In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary, acting through the Deputy Assistant Secretary, shall award grants, contracts, enter into memoranda of understanding, cooperative, interagency, intra-agency and other agreements with public and nonprofit private entities, agencies, as well as Departmental and Cabinet agencies and organizations, and with organizations that are indigenous human resource providers in communities of color to assure improved health status of racial and ethnic minorities, and shall develop measures to evaluate the effectiveness of activities aimed at reducing health disparities and supporting the local community. Such measures shall evaluate community outreach activities, language services, workforce cultural competence, and other areas as determined by the Secretary.’’

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Justice Department concludes Obama can lawfully pay Acorn

admin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:06:26 +0000

Eric Holder’s Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can “lawfully” pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress enacted a law banning the government from providing funds to the group. This should apply to any pimping, ho’in and child prostituion scheme that liberals set up before the videos came out from James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. The Holder’s department’s conclusion which has been laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum also adds a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty group’s activities and recent efforts to distance the government from it according to the New York Times.

The deputy director of national operations for Acorn, Brian Kettenring, praised Mr. Barron’s decision.

“We are pleased that commitments will be honored relative to Acorn’s work to help keep America’s working families facing foreclosure in their homes,” he said.

Mr. Barron said he had based his conclusion on the statute’s phrase “provided to.” This phrase, he said, has no clearly defined meaning in the realm of government spending — unlike such words as “obligate” and “expend.”

Citing dictionary and thesaurus entries, he said “provided to” could be interpreted as meaning only instances in which an official was making “discretionary choices” about whether to give the group money, rather than instances in which the transfer of funds to Acorn was required to satisfy existing contractual obligations.

Since there are two possible ways to construe the term “provided to,” Mr. Barron wrote, it makes sense to pick the interpretation that allows the government to avoid breaching contracts.

Moreover, he argued, requiring the government to abrogate existing contracts with a specifically named entity — “including even in cases where performance has already been completed but payment has not been rendered” — would raise constitutional concerns best avoided by interpreting the law differently.

The Constitution prohibits “bills of attainder” — legislation aimed at punishing specific people or groups. Acorn has filed a lawsuit arguing that the statute banning the government from providing it funds amounts to an unconstitutional bill of attainder.

Founded in Arkansas in 1970, Acorn describes itself as the nation’s largest grass-roots community organizing group. It provides financial services to poor and middle-income families, conducts voter registration drives, and advocates for higher minimum wages and more affordable housing.

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ACORN got $200,000 in Justice Department funds

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:49:38 +0000

According to The Hill, ACORN and its affiliates received $200,000 in Justice Department grants between 2002 and 2009, according to a report issued Friday by the department’s inspector general. No DOJ grants went directly to ACORN, but a handful of grants were awarded either to ACORN affiliates or to other organizations that sub-contracted projects to ACORN.

For example, ACORN received a $20,000 sub-contract to do community outreach on crime prevention in New York. The organization that contracted with ACORN has not released the funds yet, claiming that ACORN submitted reimbursements “outside the scope of the agreement,” including “fringe benefits” for the salaried staffer working on the project.

In another instance the city of Phoenix contracted with the “ACORN Institute” to receive about $9,000 to canvass citizens and raise awareness about a tax credit and a tax assistance program. The city hasn’t paid ACORN yet due to “poor reporting by the ACORN Institute regarding another project not related to DOJ grant funds.” Phoenix is trying to terminate its contract with ACORN.

The DOJ did not audit the funds that went to ACORN or its affiliates, but did conduct an audit of one of the organizations that contracted with an ACORN affiliate. That audit concluded that the organization “did not properly manage the grant and did not adequately monitor some of its 36 sub-grantees, including the [American Institute of Social Justice],” an ACORN affiliate.

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Andrew Breitbart has a challenge for Eric Holder – either you do a clean investigation of ACORN or we release the rest of the tapes during the next election cycle

admin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:58:18 +0000

With the release of the latest ACORN pimping/under age prostitution tape/video by Big Government, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, Andrew Breitbart threw down the gauntlet to Attorney General Eric Holder. The same Eric Holder to this day that has done NOTHING about the ACORN pimping,hoeing and encouraging of smuggling in underaged El Salvadorean sex slaves. Watch the following video from the Hannity show on November 19th. At about the 4:45 mark of the video Andrew Breitbart says tonight on Hannity:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=omrQHIgod-0

Attorney General Holder -- We have more tapes, its NOT just ACORN and we’re going to hold out until the next election cycle. Or else, if you want to do a CLEAN investigation, we will give you the rest of the tapes, we will comply with you and give you the documentation we have from countless ACORN whistle blowers who want to come forward but are fearful of this organization and the retribution that they fear this is a dangerous organization

The latest ACORN videos staring from Los Angeles staring Lavelle Stewart are below (in 2 parts) from August 17th, 2009

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NY-23 election was tampered with by ACORN and unions!

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:21:33 +0000

BOMBSHELL! Doug Hoffman has posted on his site that the NY-23 congress seat ACORN and the unions did their best to try and sway the results to Obamacare supporter Bill Owens, and the reported results from election night were far from accurate. Hoffman goes on to say:

I was forced to concede after receiving two pieces of grim news – - down 5,335 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted on election night – and barely won my stronghold in Oswego County.
Get every vote counted in NY-23On Election Night, the information we received was far different from what we received this week!

Rest assured, they will not succeed, and I am therefore revoking my statement of concession.

That is why I am writing you today. Recent developments leave me to wonder who is scheming behind closed doors, twisting arms and stealing elections from the voters of NY-23.

I’m sure you are as dismayed as I am to learn of the mischief that took place in Oswego and neighboring counties. We know this would not be the first time for the ACORN faithful to tamper with democracy.

Now it’s time to actually count every legal ballot and I need your help to ensure the people of NY-23 get the Congressman THEY ELECTED. Please donate now to help me ensure every vote is counted!

A recanvassing in the 11-county district shows Owens’ lead has narrowed to 3,026. In Oswego County, I was reported to lead by only 500 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted election night, but inspectors found I actually won by 1,748 votes

Let’s force them keep this recanvassing active! Let’s give this election a chance to end differently!
Oswego County elections officials blame the mistakes on “chaos” in their call-in center that included a phone system foul-up, and on inspectors who read numbers incorrectly when phoning in results. This sounds like a tactic right from the ACORN playbook.

The district’s second biggest voter turnout was in Jefferson County, where I had also benefited from a turnaround since election night, gaining another 700 votes. Owens led by 300 votes on the final election night tally, but after recanvassing, I’m now leading by 424 votes.

Jerry Eaton, the Republican elections commissioner for Jefferson County, said inspectors found a problem in four districts where my vote total was mistakenly entered as zero.

The new vote totals mean the race will be decided by absentee ballots, of which the state Board of Elections distributed about 10,200.

The people of NY-23 deserve to have their ballots counted properly, but we can’t let ACORN or the unions keep that from happening. They have more lawyers and more experience tampering with democracy.
State Board of Elections Communications Director John Conklin said the state sent a letter to the House Clerk last week explaining that no winner had been determined in the 23rd District.

Now it’s time to actually count every legal ballot and I need your help to ensure the people of NY-23 get the Congressman THEY ELECTED. Please donate now to help me ensure every vote is counted!

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Maoist Anita Dunn’s husband Robert “Bob” Bauer was hired to ‘erase tracks’ between Obama, ACORN

admin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:59:38 +0000

Newly appointed White House counsel Bob Bauer is “perfectly positioned to be tasked with erasing the tracks between Obama and ACORN,” says on Republican lawmaker according to The Hill. The lawyer’s hiring, announced this morning shortly after Greg Craig officially resigned the post and hung up on CNN and any other news “organization” that tried to reach him, has its own motive. The motive is an attempt by the White House to deflect any fallout that may arise from an ACORN investigation currently underway in Louisiana, says Rep. Steve King from Iowa. Remember, this coming week we are expecting another ACORN video release from BigGovernment of Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe in Los Angeles. King goes on to say:

“Bob Bauer has a public record of defending Barack Obama’s relationship with ACORN, the congressman told supporters. “Bauer’s hiring appears to be a tactical maneuver to strategically defend the White House exactly one week after Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell raided ACORN’s national headquarters in New Orleans and seized paper records and computer hard drives that may lead to the White House.”

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Acorn Sues Over Funding Vote in House

admin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:52:22 +0000

You’ve got to be kidding me. No, i can’t be surprised anymore with really anything. Corrupt as they can be, ACORN now actually has the audacity to sue over the House of Representatives barring Acorn from receiving federal aid. The claim? That the House of Representatives “violated the Constitution” by singling the antipoverty group out for punishment, lawyers for Acorn filed a lawsuit on Thursday that seeks to restore the financing, according to the New York Times.

The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court in Brooklyn, says that the Congressional resolution constitutes a “bill of attainder,” or a legislative determination of guilt without a trial. In the suit, Acorn, which came under fire especially from conservative critics after a series of embarrassing scandals, said it was penalized by Congress “without an investigation” and has been forced to cut programs that counsel struggling homeowners, and to lay off workers.

For example, it said, because of budget cutbacks, a first time homebuyer class in New York that enrolled 100 people in September enrolled only seven people in October, after the Congressional action.

“It’s a classic trial by the Legislature,” said Jules Lobel, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which brought the suit. “They have essentially determined the guilt of the organization and any organization affiliated or allied with it.”

The suit represents the first legal response by Acorn to the Congressional action in September, when the House of Representatives added the financing prohibition to a bill on college lending.

Before the vote, the organization had come under heavy criticism by conservative groups amid allegations of voter registration fraud; critics intensified their attacks after Acorn counselors were videotaped giving mortgage advice to activists posing as a pimp and a prostitute interested in setting up a brothel. The counselors were fired.

The Obama administration has also distanced itself from Acorn, which is short for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

Since 1994, the group has received about $53 million in federal aid.

At the time of the House vote, Acorn said the action would have little impact, since the group receives most of its income from members and other supporters. But in the suit, the group said that many of those supporters had cut off their relationships with Acorn, for fear of being tainted.

In an affidavit attached to the lawsuit, Bertha Lewis, the chief executive of Acorn, said she “underestimated” the effect of the resolution. “It gave the green light for others to terminate our funds as well,” she said. “All of our state and local grants were frozen, as were most of our private foundation funds.”

And several applications made by Acorn for contracts with federal agencies have also been rejected, the suit said, including a $780,000 grant for outreach to poor communities about asthma, and an application to set up public computer centers in five different cities.

The law suit names as defendants Timothy F. Geithner, the treasury secretary; Shaun Donovan, the secretary for Housing and Urban development; and Peter R. Orszag, who, as the director of the Office of Management and Budget, enforced the freeze on financing, the suit alleges.

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Democrats Vote To Give ACORN Regulatory Authority Over Financial Institutions

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:19:15 +0000

You didn’t really think Democrats like Maxine ‘dirty’ Waters would let Acorn die did you? On Thursday, during consideration of H.R. 3126, legislation to establish a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee voted to pass an amendment offered by Rep. Maxine Waters that will make ACORN eligible to play a role in setting regulations for financial institutions. Didn’t hear about this in the news? Neither did I. Didn’t even hear it on the “None-News” station Fox News. Trading Markets provides the rest of the story:

The Waters amendment adds to the CFPA Oversight Board 5 representatives from the fields of “consumer protection, fair lending and civil rights, representatives of depository institutions that primarily serve underserved communities, or representatives of communities that have been significantly impacted by higher-priced mortgages” to join Federal banking regulators in advising the Director on the consistency of proposed regulations, and strategies and policies that the Director should undertake to enforce its rules.

By making representatives of ACORN and other consumer activist organizations eligible to serve on the Oversight Board, the amendment creates a potentially enormous government sanctioned conflict of interest. ACORN-type organizations will have an advisory role on regulating the very financial institutions from which they receive millions of dollars annually in direct corporate contributions and benefit from other financial partnerships and arrangements. These are the same organizations that pressured banks to make subprime mortgage loans and thus bear a major responsibility for the collapse of the housing market.

In light of recent evidence linking ACORN to possible criminal activity, Democrats took an unprecedented step today to give ACORN a potential role alongside bank regulators in overseeing financial institutions. This is contrary to recent actions taken by the Senate and House to block federal funds to ACORN.

A recent inquiry into bank funding of ACORN activities by three House Committees found that institutions that would be regulated by the CFPA have provided millions of dollars to the organization in the form of direct donations, lines of credit, cash, and other assets over the last 15 years. to view the vote.

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ACORN in Philadelphia, Katherine Conway Russell and Media Matters exposed!

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:26:50 +0000

Update! Part 2 added! This is only part 1 of the video, part 2 is expected i think later today. This new 8 minute video depicts James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles entering ACORN’s Philadelphia office and meeting with Katherine Conway-Russell. O’Keefe and Giles are seen speaking with Conway-Russell, but audio portions of the video are missing or edited in some portions. O’Keefe is heard mentioning he doesn’t “want to get in trouble with authorities,” and he mentions individuals will be frequently coming in and out of the building they hoped to secure, an apparent reference to the purported prostitution business to operate there. Clips of news reports featuring Conway-Russell and ACORN’s chief executive, Bertha Lewis, claiming the pair were kicked out of the office were then shown.

Part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=af9DDayHwbg
Part 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpHGS1T242A

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admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:53:32 +0000

FightForAnita.com is the official website of the Anita MonCrief Defense Fund. As you may or may not know, Anita Moncrief has stood up against the wrongdoing of ACORN, Project Vote, and their affiliated entities, and the defense fund was created to provide support for her fight against corruption and very expensive legal fees. Join the fight that Anita started to put an end to corruption. Make a contribution today. Fight for Anita!

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South Park goofs on ACORN – Is Butters a racist or a right-wing extremist?

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:23:13 +0000

Surely the creators of South Park and the character “Butters” from South Park are either racists or right wing extremists now. Butters looks for housing oppurtunities and corporate tax information for his “Kissing company” in an obvious mock of ACORN after the scandal of exposed by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles was exposed. At the end of the clip Butters says “I thought ACORN helps pimps and their bitches”! Let the cries of racism begin. Maybe CNN can fact check this too!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeVEHJYPlH8

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ACORN HQs in New Orleans sold!

admin — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:57:56 +0000

According to Big Government, an offer has been accepted for ACORN’s long-time headquarters on Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans, on the edge of the 9th Ward. This is the empty funeral home building you may have seen reported on by Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly. SEIU 100, which Rathke founded, was also headquartered in that building.

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Darnell Nash a cross-dressing Ohio male escort hired by ACORN registered multiple times to vote was convicted voter fraud

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:26:58 +0000

And the hits just keep on coming from ACORN. Darnell Nash, who is also known by several aliases including Serina “Sexy Slay” Gibbs from Ohio, who is a male escort whom ACORN registered multiple times to vote was convicted of full-fledged vote fraud in addition to the lesser crime of voter registration fraud. According to Big Government, a spokesman for Cleveland prosecutor Bill Mason (an elected Democrat) confirmed yesterday that a local investigation of ACORN remains wide open.

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ACORN’s CEO Bertha Lewis plays the race card

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:38:21 +0000

No real surprise here, maybe the only surprise is that Bertha Lewis waiting this long to actually cry racism. On Tuesday, ACORN’s CEO Bertha Lewis charged that accusations about ACORN are racist, alleging that a coordinated political effort started by former Bush adviser Karl Rove sought to stop the group from registering minority voters, according to an article in the Washington Times.

“For many years, there’ve been folks who’ve disagreed with our ideology or methodology that has gone after us,” Mrs. Lewis, ACORN’s chief executive officer, said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington.

“I mean we, back going to 2004, we now see through e-mails from Karl Rove from the previous administration that ACORN itself was targeted, targeted to go after us so that we would stop doing voter registration because it was said that we were moving too many minorities to vote, changing the power dynamics on the local election and that we needed to be stopped.”

She also labeled as racist the infamous videos that show ACORN workers advising a man and young woman posing as pimp and prostitute how to circumvent the law. “These new filmmakers, [James] O’Keefe himself, told The Washington Post, ‘They’re registering too many minorities; they usually vote Democratic; somebody’s got to stop them,’” Mrs. Lewis said.

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Patrick Corvington for works for, Annie E. Casey Foundation (Big ACORN granter) to be chief executive of the Corporation for National and Community Service

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:55:03 +0000

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Turns out Rathke didn’t embezzle just $1 million from ACORN, instead it was $5 million!

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:40:30 +0000

No wonder ACORN still wouldn’t open up the books. According to NOLA, an internal review by the board of directors of ACORN determined that the amount allegedly embezzled from the community organization was $5 million, not $1 million which was originally reported months ago, according to a new subpoena in an investigation by Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell. On Tuesday, Oct 6th, Caldwell has served ACORN 2nd Subpoena.
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The subpoena, released this afternoon, says, “It is still unclear if some of the monies embezzled are from state, federal or private funds.”

ACORN Chief Executive Officer Bertha Lewis said the new accusation about the embezzlement is “completely false.” She said she would comment further after she and ACORN attorneys have a chance to review the subpoena.

Caldwell issued subpoenas in August seeking documents related to Acorn International then-President Wade Rathke and his brother Dale Rathke, who kept the group’s books. Those subpoenas were focused on possible Acorn violations of state employee tax law, obstructing justice and violating the Employee Retirement Security Act.

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