Posted on 12/23/2008 1:33:10 PM PST by Clintons Are White Trash
Bernard Madoff (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)A begging letter just sent out by the American Civil Liberties Union reveals that the organization, which has taken on such an important role in recent years with its battles against the Bush administration's assaults on due process and revival of the use of torture, is a victim of the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme.
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That Madoff guy should get a medal (in prison). He took down a vast left-wing conspiracy.
It’s time for my bottle of 1962 Dom Perignon to be opened!
They’re all lawyers,yet they’re all idiots to fall fo this racket.
Quick - someone post the photo of Nelson Muntz saying HA HA!
What goes around comes around. ACLU has been screwing people for yesrs. Looks like payback came around.
Were they really effected, or is this a fund raising scam?
Hard to believe the righteous SOB’s at the ACLU were looking to turn a quick buck in the house of the Wall St. Guru...
I bet the ACLU will still find funds to defend NAMBLA.
It sucks when getting hit by a sucker punch when giving sucker punches is what made you, eh ACLU?
Gee, whiz, wonder why?
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch!!!ha ha ha
Name one!
I hope they lose their shirts.
Does anyone think the Hussein administration would not get as much money to the ACLU as it could possibly use? None of these useful wings of the democratic party will be left in the lurch.
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It looks like the democrats are going to take a serious hit in their fundraising in the next election thanks to Madoff and the stupidity/cupidity of his “investors.”
I bet the ACLU is really putting the screws to the Franken election machine with due consideration too. /s
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
How long will it take for the Teamsters to claim it lost the pension fund money (again) because of Bernie? I think that would make about the 347th time the fund went belly up. Evidently the Gambino’s just don’t invest well, huh?
Talk about your poetic justice.
I will point my M-14 to the sky and shoot it via lack of respect for the ACLU.
Hard to believe the self-righteous SOB’s at the ACLU were looking to turn a quick buck in the house of the Wall St. Guru...
Pretty much my response.
Course if the scam did help injure the aclu then GOOD.
OK - don’t you feel just a little joy with this news? I mean the ACLU? Not that we wish ill on others - but just a little - for only a moment? And then of course, we try to see the larger picture and extend charity etc. But the ACLU? In anyone deserves this - it’s this bunch.
God works in mysterious ways. This guy sure took a lot of liberals with him. I wonder if any in Hollywood went down.
The ACLU and many other anti America left wing pseudo non profits are losers as Manoff goes down:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151886/posts?page=38#38
JEHT FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE GRANTS
List of active international justice grants of the JEHT Foundation:
(I’m assuming that all active grants on this list, with millions of dollars yet to be distributed, will be cancelled.)
Organization Name—Amount of Grant—Year Grant Was Made—Duration of Grant
$15,000 2004 1 year Advocates for Environmental Human Rights $450,000 2005 3 years
Altus Global Alliance $300,000 2004 18 months
American Civil Liberties Union Foudation $600,000 2006 3 years
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation $500,000 2004 1 year
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation $350,000 2004 2 years
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation $300,000 2007 1 year
American Public Media $80,000 2007 1 year
American Society of International Law $151,800 2005 18 months
American Society of International Law $140,500 2007 18 months
American Society of International Law $125,000 2008 1 year
American University, Washington College of Law, War Crime Research Office $103,000 2004 1 year
American University: Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law $83,365 2005 9 months
Americans for Informed Democracy $10,000 2006 3 months
Americans for Informed Democracy $65,500 2007 1 year
Amnesty International USA $250,000 2004 1 year
Amnesty International USA $300,000 2007 1 year
Amnesty International USA $250,000 2004 1 year
Amnesty International USA $1,000,000 2005 3 years
Aspen Institute $160,000 2005 1 year
Aspen Institute $324,570 2006 2 years
Brandeis University: The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life (ICEJP) $600,000 2005 3 years
Brandeis University: The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life $600,000 2008 3 years
Business and Human Rights Resource Center $100,000 2006 2 years
Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict $150,000 2006 3 years
Center for Constitutional Rights $325,000 2007 2 years
Center for Constitutional Rights $37,500 2004 4 months
Center for International Environmental Law $600,000 2006 3 years
Center for Investigative Reporting $300,000 2006 1 year
Center for Justice and Accountability $450,000 2006 3 years
Center for Public Integrity $316,000 2005 1 year
Center for Public Integrity $900,000 2008 3 years
Center for Public Integrity $107,000 2007 6 months
Citizens for Global Solutions $250,000 2006 1 year
Coalition for International Justice $75,000 2004 1 year
Coalition for International Justice $60,000 2005 6 months
Columbia Law School: Human Rights Institute $90,000 2006 1 year
Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro $150,000 2004 2 years
Crimes of War Project $60,000 2004 1 year Crimes of War Project $23,400 2007 2 months
Crimes of War Project $60,000 2005 1 year Crimes of War Project $200,000 2008 2 years
ETV Endowment of South Carolina: Hedrick Smith Productions $75,000 2005 3 months
EarthRights International $200,000 2005 2 years
EarthRights International $325,000 2008 2 years
European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights $49,600 2007 1 month
Harvard Law School: International Human Rights Clinic $43,261 2006 7 months
Harvard Law School: International Human Rights Clinic $118,000 2008 1 year
Harvard University: Program on Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Kennedy School of Government $768,739 2005 3 years
Heartland Human Care Services, Inc.: National Immigrant Justice Center $720,000 2008 3 years
Human Rights First $100,000 2002 7 months
Human Rights First $1,500,000 2005 3 years
Human Rights First $350,000 2004 1 year
Human Rights Watch $225,000 2002 1 year
Human Rights Watch $250,000 2004 1 year
Human Rights Watch $500,000 2005 2 years
Human Rights Watch $1,000,000 2007 3 years
Human Rights Watch $172,500 2007 1 year
Interights $600,000 2006 3 years
International Bar Association $29,729 2005 6 months
International Center for Transitional Justice $150,000 2005 1 year
International Judicial Academy $205,000 2006 4 years
International Judicial Academy $234,000 2008 3 years
International Labor Rights Fund $100,000 2007 6 months
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights $300,000 2006 1 year
Nation Institute $50,000 2007 3 months
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers $250,000 2004 1 year
National Institute of Military Justice $510,000 2007 3 years
National Security Archive $110,000 2006 2 years
National Security Archive Fund, Inc. $200,000 2008 10 months
New York University Center for Human Rights and Global Justice $130,000 2007 1 year
New York University Center for Human Rights and Global Justice $130,000 2007 1 year
New York University School of Law: Center on Law and Security $$75,000 2006 14 months
New York University, Center on International Cooperation: Project on International Courts and Tribunals $160,000 2004 18 months
New York University: Center for Human Rights and Global Justice $160,000 2005 2 years
Physicians for Human Rights $350,000 2006 2 years
Physicians for Human Rights $350,000 2008 2 years
Physicians for Human Rights $233,000 2005 2 years
Physicians for Human Rights $260,000 2005 18 months
Physicians for Human Rights $209,850 2006 1 year
Program on International Policy Attitudes $5,543 2005 1 month
Program on International Policy Attitudes $150,000 2005 1 year
Proteus Fund, Inc. $120,000 2004 1 year Reprieve $63,700 2006 6 months
Reprieve $400,000 2007 2 years
The American Prospect $132,500 2004 10 months
The Center for Justice and Accountability $100,000 2005 6 months
University of Minnesota Human Rights Center $175,000 2007 1 year
University of Notre Dame Law School: Center for Civil and Human Rights $176,825 2003 1 year
University of Texas School of Law $25,344 2003 4 months
Vera Institute of Justice $250,000 2004 1 year
Vera Institute of Justice $250,000 2005 1 year
WITNESS, Brooklyn, NY $75,000 2006 4 months
Yale Law School $120,000 2007 1 year
Yale University Law School, Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic $50,000 2004 1 year
Since the government (us) pays the ACLU to sue the government (us), they’ll just redouble their efforts and cover the loss.
At the link you can leave comments. I see that a few FReepers have already signed the guestsheet.
The same problem has also hit the UC Berkeley law school “Death Penalty Project,” as in get rid of the death penalty.
Today on the radio Rush said it’s become the “in” thing to say you lost money to Madoff. I wonder if this will become a plea like Hurricane Katrina, oh poor me, I need your sympathy and money!
Hope they got cleaned out
Hey, ACLU, maybe George Soros, aka György Schwartz, can give you some money...or were those his foundations too?
So let me get this straight. Charities were taking contributions and investing them instead of using the money for what it was donated for??
Sounds like the ACLU is already preparing that draft documentation requesting ‘bail out’ funds from the incoming Dear Leader...
There is a God in heaven after all !!
Kinda makes a tingle run up my leg.
Oh really?! The crooks trip over each other. Whatever. Who’s going to be sued by the ACLU? Bunch of [blago bleepin bleep] commies.
Bernie Madoff, what a Mench, he single handedly and unwittingly has destroyed many left wing ‘charities’, organizations, and individuals who are determined to destroy the United States.
Give him a medal.
Have them send what is left over to me. I’d be more than happy to invest it for them at a 25% annual return.
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