A July 2009 congressional report -- titled “Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?” -- accused ACORN of massive fraud, money laundering, and racketeering directed from the highest levels of the organization's management.
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The second sentence of the first paragraph of the Executive Summary says it all...
Both structurally and operationally, ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate.
As the mob informant(Cicci?) at the Senatorial hearing in Godfather II said to the interrogator, “We have a lot of buffers.”