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ACORN Selects 'Investigator' Instead of the 'Auditor' It Promised; AP Cooperates With the Water-down
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2009/09/22/acorn-selects-investigator-instead-auditor-it-promised-ap-cooperates ^

Posted on 09/22/2009 2:18:53 PM PDT by chessplayer

Last Wednesday, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis promised that her organization would conduct a "total audit," and would name an independent auditor by Friday ("within 48 hours"). Later, it said it would do so yesterday.

The group finally acted today, in totally underwhelming fashion. We're not going to get a "total audit" after all. Instead, there's going to be an "internal investigation," and it will be conducted by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: acorn; bloggersandpersonal; sourcetitlenoturl

1 posted on 09/22/2009 2:18:53 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

Wow, our internal investigation says we should get 8 billion in government grants. WOW oh WOW!


2 posted on 09/22/2009 2:19:58 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: chessplayer

Auditing the finances of ACORN requires a person knowledgeable with numbers.

Therefore, nothing will happen. Those loons can barely read.

(But, they can sure figure out how to finance prostitution.)


3 posted on 09/22/2009 2:21:43 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: chessplayer

ACORN wins The Captain Louis Renault Award again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1DEG6BWgp0


4 posted on 09/22/2009 2:25:28 PM PDT by Brandonmark (News Coverage)
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To: chessplayer

I think it’s time for the IRS to pay them a visit.


5 posted on 09/22/2009 2:26:22 PM PDT by dajeeps
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To: chessplayer

Gotta get in there and cook them books —pronto.
Paper shreaders arriving in semi trucks.


6 posted on 09/22/2009 2:27:00 PM PDT by Uncle George
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To: chessplayer

Bertha, the best way to sort this out is to call for a RICO investigation conducted by former FBI agent Gary Aldrich.


7 posted on 09/22/2009 2:31:15 PM PDT by Ben Hecks
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To: chessplayer
Scott Harshbarger????????

My specific recall fails me at this moment but he is the guy who falsely proscecuted that infamous case of day care child abuse, wherein one of the falsely accused spent something like 8 years in prison before being exonerated.

That intrepid investigative reporter, my God, I can't recall her name instantly (wrote for WSJ + many others) exposed this sham as well as the sham in Washington state....remmember Reno in FL did same thing during those halycon days of Democrat AG's polishing their resumes for future "Public Service"!

Help me out here, my fellow Freepers..........Dorothy Rabinowitz, is that correct....Wenachee, WA IIRC...funny how memory works, some came back as I was typing this but still cannot remember the MA victims & the day school.

8 posted on 09/22/2009 2:39:48 PM PDT by Seeking the truth (Ocents.com - Obama "Zero" faux postage stamps, tees, mousepads, bumper stickers)
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To: chessplayer; FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; youturn; little jeremiah; ~Kim4VRWC's~; ...
ACORN Ping!

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.


9 posted on 09/22/2009 2:42:39 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: chessplayer

What will this report be called:

aCorn-gate
aCornhole’n
White-hate-gate
Race-gate
Whitewash
Blackwash
VanJones’n
Big-Bertha-gate
To Big to Fail-gate
Devil’n da-details-gate
Flip-gate
H.L.Gate-wash
Show-notell-gate
Gates’-nogate


10 posted on 09/22/2009 2:45:17 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

THAT is a funny picture.


11 posted on 09/22/2009 2:48:07 PM PDT by Melpomene (Who Dat?!?)
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To: Seeking the truth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Harshbarger

Luther Scott Harshbarger (born December 1, 1941, in New Haven, Connecticut) is a lawyer and a Democratic politician from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Harshbarger attended Harvard College where he was a halfback on the varsity football team and Harvard Law School[1]. He was first elected as District Attorney (DA) of Middlesex County, Massachusetts in 1982, defeating incumbent DA John Droney in the Democratic primary. He was re-elected in 1986.

Harshbarger found public prominence and political success, like Janet Reno, by prosecuting cases in the day care sex abuse hysteria of the 1980s.[citation needed] He obtained the conviction of Gerald Amirault and other employees of the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts.[citation needed] The Amirault conviction has been widely criticized as a gross miscarriage of justice by publications as politically diverse as The Wall Street Journal (e.g., April 30, 2004) and The Nation (e.g., Feb. 28, 2002).

In 1990 he was elected Attorney General of Massachusetts, again defeating the incumbent, this time James Shannon, in the Democratic primary. He was re-elected in 1994 with 72 percent of the vote, and served from 1991 until 1999.[citation needed]

He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in the 1998 gubernatorial election. He lost in a close race to incumbent Republican Governor Paul Celucci[2]. Afterwards, Harshbarger served as president of the public interest organization Common Cause for three years, where he spearheaded the successful push for campaign finance reform in 2002 (McCain-Feingold).

Since 2003, Harshbarger has practiced law in the private sector, focusing on corporate governance and related issues. He is currently Senior Counsel to the Firm at Proskauer Rose LLP[3] in Boston, MA.
[edit]External links

“Justice, Not So Swift” — Katha Pollitt comments on Harshbarger’s role in the Amirault case.


More here:

http://www.zpub.com/un/un-sh.html

Scott Harshbarger

Born: December 1, 1941, New Haven, Conn.
Education: Harvard U., B.A., 1964, L.L.B., 1968.
Military Service: None.
Occupation: Lawyer.
Family: Wife, Judith; five children.
Religion: Church of the Brethren.
Political Career: Middlesex County district attorney, 1983-90; Mass. attorney general, 1990-present.
[Source: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/1998/states/MA/G/scott.harshbarger.html]

Harshbarger and the Amirault Case

.... the mockery of reason and justice — that began when District Attorney Scott Harshbarger mounted a sensational case of child sex abuse against the Amirault family, owners of the Fells Acres Day School in Malden. That was 1984. Today, Scott Harshbarger is the president of Common Cause, spokesman for all the latest in progressive-liberal enlightenment, and Gerald Amirault remains in prison, where he has been for nearly 14 years, with 20 years or more left to serve. Governor Cellucci’s Chance, The Wall Street Journal Thursday, April 20, 2000

Why Swift should free Amirault By James M. Shannon, Boston Globe, 8/17/2001

“Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger made a political career by framing the Amirault family on child sex abuse charges.” The Private Use of Public Policy by Paul Craig Roberts

Massachusett’s Scott Harshbarger, who built the fictional case against the Amirault family. Issue # 97

Violet Amirault and Cheryl Amirault LeFave

Scott Harshbarger and the Amirault Family
The Tragic and True Tale of the Amirault Family of Malden, Massachusetts (Thus Far)
Articles on the Fells Acres Day-care Ritual-abuse case by Hugo S. Cunningham
Wall Street Journal Editorializes Against Cellucci Concerned about One of Massachusetts’ ‘Most Notorious and Long-Running Travesties of Justice” – the Continued Incarceration of Gerald Amirault April 2, 2001

Open letter to the

NATIONAL GOVERNING BOARD MEMBERS OF COMMON CAUSE

How can Common Cause have Scott Harshbarger as President and CEO given the case of the Amirault Family which he prosecuted as District Attorney of Middlesex County? Just about everybody has agreed that that this case was a huge miscarriage of justice that put 3 people in jail for crimes they did not commit.

Dorothy Rabinowitz of The Wall Street Journal has exposed the systematic fabrication of evidence in this case. The question I ask is how can Common Cause continue it's association with Scott Harshbarger? Does Common Cause really want to put it's credibility on the line in defending the actions of a person like Scott Harshbarger?

12 posted on 09/22/2009 2:50:59 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Be prepared for tough times. FReepmail me to learn about our survival thread!)
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To: Seeking the truth
From the article:

"You see, he is the attorney general who put away the Amiraults.

"Here's a memory refresher:

"Harshbarger found public prominence and political success, like Janet Reno, by prosecuting cases in the day care sex abuse hysteria of the 1980s. He obtained the conviction of Gerald Amirault and other employees of the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts. The Amirault conviction has been widely criticized as a gross miscarriage of justice by publications as politically diverse as The Wall Street Journal (e.g., April 30, 2004) and The Nation (e.g., Feb. 28, 2002).

"The Wikipedia excerpt understates the heinous nature of the Amirault case. No one other than those in the case who were brainwashed at the time by clever shrinks seriously believes the Amiraults were guilty. Harshbarger's sham prosecution can perhaps be excused given the hysteria at the time, but his refusal to back down when it became obvious after their conviction that he had railroaded the family is unforgivable, and should have kept him out of consideration for the job he accepted.

"

13 posted on 09/22/2009 2:52:23 PM PDT by San Jacinto (/i)
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To: chessplayer

I dont know anything more about Scott Harshberger than what I have read in these posts, but the fact that ACORN chose him tell me that he is a Democrat crook of the highest order who will stp at nothing to se that ACORN is exonerated.

What is needed is a full audit by the IRS and even the IRS’s credibility is questionable under the Obama regime.


14 posted on 09/22/2009 2:57:18 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: A CA Guy

: )


15 posted on 09/22/2009 3:01:49 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: chessplayer
Sounds as if the fix is in,,,,again.
16 posted on 09/22/2009 3:08:45 PM PDT by ANGGAPO (Leyte Gulf Beach Club)
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To: chessplayer

They tried to pin her down to hiring PriceWaterhouser or Ernst & Young, but she dodged. Anything short of hiring either one of those auditors is a whitewash.


17 posted on 09/22/2009 3:17:59 PM PDT by balls
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To: chessplayer

ACORN is a RICO operation.

Treat it as such.


18 posted on 09/22/2009 3:21:13 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Seeking the truth

Harshbarger found public prominence and political success, like Janet Reno, by prosecuting cases in the day care sex abuse hysteria of the 1980s.[citation needed] He obtained the conviction of Gerald Amirault and other employees of the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts.[citation needed] The Amirault conviction has been widely criticized as a gross miscarriage of justice by publications as politically diverse as The Wall Street Journal (e.g., April 30, 2004) and The Nation (e.g., Feb. 28, 2002).
great memory. this guys a grade A butthead.


19 posted on 09/22/2009 3:25:27 PM PDT by wiggen (Never in the history of our great country have the people had less representation than they do today)
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To: balls

I wonder if they would have turned her down? Perhaps C Wallace will report this coming Sunday.


20 posted on 09/22/2009 3:34:41 PM PDT by This_far (Mandatory health insurance? I thought it was about health care!)
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