Congress Hears About ACORN's Extortion Racket

American Specator ^ | March 19, 2009 | Matthew Vadum

[vadum]

In recent months demands for ACORN to be investigated under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for repeated incidents of electoral fraud have been growing.

But voting-related fraud is just the tip of the iceberg.

ACORN runs a mob-style "protection" racket known within the radical direct-action group as the "muscle for the money" program, a lawyer told the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties today.

Lawyer Heather Heidelbaugh filed an unsuccessful lawsuit last year against ACORN, specifically, a court injunction in Pennsylvania against ACORN's voter registration efforts in last year's presidential campaign. (A transcript of the Oct. 29 hearing in Moyer v. ACORN is available here.) [...]

[xcamel]

And....

SEIU....ACORN with a day job.

[GOP Poet]

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[AngelesCrestHighway]

ACORN GOT OBAMA ELECTED BY FRAUD!......Gee! No one saw that?Where the hell was the F.B.I.?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Where the hell was the F.B.I.?

Looking for white supremacists in a van.

[OneWingedShark]

And the corruption just keeps growing.
... on a side-note: I’d like “conspiracy to commit voter fraud” be a capital offense.

[I am Richard Brandon]

Rent-a-mob!

[fullchroma]

Watch Fox News’ Megyn Kelly take down an ACORN spokescreep: http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=599

[JimRed]

I looked in the local phone directory and did not find ACORN as a social agency. How does one find their offices, to start a little survellance?

[OneWingedShark]

When ACORN board members Marcel Reid and Karen Inman demanded to see the financial documents, they were expelled from the group.

Interesting little factoid.

[devistate one four]

Or some one with a shotgun barrel sawed off at 17 15/16 inches.

[jrd]

more like 17 63/64

[Disambiguator]

Where the hell was the F.B.I.?

Looking for white supremacists in a van.

Down by the river?

[vadum]

ACORN lists its offices at:

http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=12345

[JoyjoyfromNJ]

And ACORN will be involved in the 2010 census. (posted elsewhere on FR but here’s a link to the original:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/17/lawmakers-concerned-role-acorn-census/

[marlon]

I guess Congress will be giving the Gambino crime family a few billion next. Both are being investigated for racketering and fraud but so far only one is being given billions in "stimulus" funds and being asked to handle the US Census.

I'm sure given enough time the Obama administration will find a way to funnel a few billion to the mob, just to make it fair!

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Go to your neighborhood mighty oak tree.

[HighlyOpinionated]

But will Congress do anything to keep ACORN out of the US Census?

[Ed Condon]

Pick the one nearest you.
Jersey City ACORN

862 Newark Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07306

>> Visit Local Website

Phone: 201-963-9132
Fax: 201-963-9133
njacorn@acorn.org
Newark ACORN

45 Bloomfield Ave.
Newark, NJ 07104

>> Visit Local Website

Phone: 973-485-1407
njacorn@acorn.org
Paterson ACORN

175 Market Street
#306
Paterson, NJ 07505

>> Visit Local Website

Phone: 973-684-8880
Fax: 973-684-8890
njacornpa@acorn.org
Trenton ACORN

395 W. State St.
2nd Floor
Trenton, NJ 08618

>> Visit Local Website

Phone: 609-392-7954
njacorn@acorn.org

[Darwin Fish]

Sometimes I think it would be good for a bunch of us to join ACORN just to document their illegal activities.