Page 10 opposes ACORN.

11/23/2009 9:34:44 AM

ACORN Dumped Sensitive Documents as Probe Began, Private Investigator Says
November 23, 2009

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"A private investigator says he found tens of thousands of sensitive documents dumped outside a California ACORN office just days after the state attorney general announced an inquiry into the community organizing group."

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"'We're talking people's driver's license numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, tax returns, credit reports' — all tossed in public view in the Dumpster, he said."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576466,00.html

11/24/2009 3:22:34 PM

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"Report Uncovers No Voting Fraud by Acorn By JOHN SCHWARTZ Published: December 23, 2009 A new report on the community group Acorn by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service has found no evidence of fraudulent voting or of violations of federal financing rules by the group in the past five years. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/us/24acorn.html?ref=todayspaper


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A

Jeez, hooksaw, would you please make a thread about how I am totally not a lottery winner? Only then will I strike it rich.

[Edited on December 26, 2009 at 5:09 PM. Reason : ]

12/26/2009 5:08:44 PM

after spending the past week at my parents' house, ive come to teh startling conclusion:

Hooksaw is my dad.

12/26/2009 6:58:16 PM

^^ Yeah, I made it all up--ACORN is a top-notch organization. Don't forget to tell the Democrat-led Congress, Obama, and The New York Times.

Funds Misappropriated at 2 Nonprofit Groups
July 9, 2008

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"Acorn chose to treat the embezzlement of nearly $1 million eight years ago as an internal matter and did not even notify its board."

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"A whistle-blower forced Acorn to disclose the embezzlement, which involved the brother of the organization’s founder, Wade Rathke. The brother, Dale Rathke, embezzled nearly $1 million from Acorn and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000, Acorn officials said, but a small group of executives decided to keep the information from almost all of the group’s board members and not to alert law enforcement."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09embezzle.html

GAO opens ACORN investigation
12/17/09

Quote :

"Congress passed – and the president has signed – a bill containing a measure barring any further federal money from going to the group, but a federal court in New York has overturned that ban."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30742.html

DOJ appeals ruling lifting ACORN funding ban
12/18/09

Quote :

"In a nine-page document filed Thursday, the government argued that a report commissioned by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now that detailed the group's management failings proves that Congressional action taken to stop funding it is not punitive, and thus not an unconstitutional bill of attainder."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30767.html

[Edited on December 27, 2009 at 6:39 AM. Reason : ^ I am your Daddy--this we know.]

12/27/2009 6:36:27 AM

bump by request

3/23/2010 8:54:32 AM

they're just reorganizing anyway... bankruptcy is meaningless

3/23/2010 8:56:19 AM

Facts are meaningless, too, it would seem, given that some people are still going after them.

3/23/2010 10:09:08 AM

3/23/2010 10:26:56 AM

I hope all of you recognize what they are really doing, dissolving, reorganizing in a new name, repeat.

Their name is so tainted at the point no politician would probably want help from them and if they reinvent themselves as a new organization they can still be involved in politics.

3/23/2010 10:28:34 AM

^ that's true.

BUt it's still a victory for the right in terms of the media, because if gives them something to talk about to rally their base.

3/23/2010 10:35:53 AM

3/23/2010 3:12:36 PM