Pressure Builds for 'Thorough' Review of ACORN Activities, Grants

foxnews.com ^ | September 15, 2009 | FOXNews.com

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

House Minority Leader John Boehner introduced legislation Tuesday that would break all federal government ties with ACORN, and Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., wrote Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an investigation by the Justice Department

House Minority Leader John Boehner introduced legislation Tuesday that would break all federal government ties with ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

And Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., wrote Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an investigation by the Justice Department. He cited reports that ACORN may "have been engaged in illegal activity" by aiding and abetting tax evasion, prostitution, human trafficking, fraud and conspiracy. The Justice Department did not immediately comment on Johanns' letter.

[Kansas58]

I grew up just down the street from the original Pizza Hut.

Funny picture!

[Liz]

A Congressional report includes significant new information about wrongdoing brought to the attention of committee investigators by ACORN whistleblowers.

“It is outrageous that ACORN will be rewarded for its criminal acts by taxpayer money in the stimulus and is being asked to help with the U.S. census,” said Rep. Issa. “This report shines a light on clear criminal conduct and it is abundantly clear that they cannot and should not be trusted with taxpayer dollars.”

Highlighted in the report:

* ACORN has evaded taxes, obstructed justice, engaged in self dealing, and aided and abetted a cover-up of the $948.607.50 embezzlement by Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke.

* ACORN has committed investment fraud, deprived the public of its right to honest services, and engaged in a racketeering enterprise affecting interstate commerce.

* ACORN has committed a conspiracy to defraud the United States by using taxpayer funds for partisan political activities.

* ACORN has submitted false filings to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Labor, in addition to violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

* ACORN falsified and concealed facts concerning an illegal transaction between related parties in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).

[angkor]

OBAMA CAUGHT SAYING ACORN AND FRIENDS WILL SHAPE HIS PRESIDENTIAL AGENDA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU

NakedEmperorNews
October 11, 2008

Heartland Democratic Presidential Forum 12/07 (forum exclusively for thousands of community organizers including Gamaliel and ACORN people)

[gathersnomoss]

Smoke screen..........Please move along......

[Liz]

Thanks for the heads-up——FOX has run that vid several times. FOX is doing ACORN 24-7.

[Diogenesis]

Heroes of the New Journalism --- unlike the stupid, half-wit, moron, violence-promoting, racists at the MSM

The MSM has pushed only for violence against American patriots beginning
with Jim Lehrer who demanded that Obama "crack heads".
Since then Americans have been assaulted, insulted, beaten, murdered, and eaten.

Why on Earth would the MSM report on what they began and supported and protected?

"PRESIDENT OBAMA: And this week, .... we're going to be doing is bringing some of them into the White House and --
JIM LEHRER: To crack heads?"

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"To crack heads?" Lehrer asks.
"Oh, I don't know about cracking heads," Obama said, "facilitating a discussion that solves these problems." "

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"PBS's Lehrer Badgers Obama from the Left: What About Banks' 'Huge Profits?'
By Matthew Balan | July 21, 2009 - 11:56
"PBS's Jim Lehrer ... urged the executive to "crack heads"
to get his health care plan passed, and inquired if "taxing the wealthy" was an option to fund it.
Lehrer later pressed Mr. Obama on the "huge profits" being made by "big Wall Street banks.""

[gathersnomoss]

Holder = No Action

FBI = Not while Hussein is POTUS

next.....

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[gathersnomoss]

BANG!

....please move along....

[angkor]

I hope they’re also discussing Community Organizations International, which is ACORN founder Wade Rathke’s new RICO front group.

And the other 350++ front groups used in the ACORN criminal conspiracy.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Didn’t the FBI do ACORN investigations?

http://search.fbi.gov/search?q=ACORN&btnG=Search&site=my_collection&submit22.y=5&output=xml_no_dtd&submit22.x=39&client=my_collection&proxystylesheet=my_collection&oe=UTF-8

Is Acorn Capital ACORN or an affiliate?

[angkor]

>>> unlike the stupid, half-wit, moron, violence-promoting, racists at the MSM <<<

I know it's a little redundant, but I like "the stupid, half-wit, moron, violence-promoting, racists at the MSM state-sponsored media," as some other posters have been suggesting.

[RC2]

You tell us. Has the President investigated any black radical organization. ACORN, Black Panthers, Jesse Jackson, Sharpton, Rangle? Racism.....yeah we have it and it comes from the top. Remember the speach that stated “Our time has come”? Who do you think that was aimed at?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Strange...it seems the FBI investigations of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, before Holder, are gone...

http://search.fbi.gov/search?q=Association+of+Community+Organizations+for+Reform+Now&btnG=Search&site=my_collection&submit22.y=5&output=xml_no_dtd&submit22.x=39&client=my_collection&proxystylesheet=my_collection&oe=UTF-8

[Liz]

I hope they’re also discussing Community Organizations International, which is ACORN founder Wade Rathke’s new RICO front group. And the other 350++ front groups used in the ACORN criminal conspiracy.

Wade's brother Dale is SEIU's frontman---and also embezzled a million dollars from ACORN....ACORN chose not to file charges.

[Liz]

THE 9/12 REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN

Wait'll these people start asking their Reps questions about ACORN.

[GOPJ]

Even an a-hole like Stewart gets it right once in a while.

He got it this time...

[MrB]

Funny how these calls were absent before the filmers exposed TO THE PUBLIC what this group was all about.

Don’t tell me that the politicians were unaware of it prior to the release of the videos.

[VOA]

Time to kick over the rotted log which is ACORN and all their
“fellow-traveler” organizations (parasites of government money,
that is)...