Bank Pulls Back From Acorn Work

Already facing the loss of federal government funding, the community-organizing group Acorn also has run afoul of one of its big corporate partners, Bank of America Corp.

In response to questions from The Wall Street Journal, a spokesman for the banking company said it has "suspended current commitments" to Acorn Housing, an affiliated group, and "will not enter into any further agreements with Acorn or any of its affiliates," pending assessments by the bank of the organization's operations.

Acorn, officially the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has been under fire since the recent release of secretly recorded videos that showed Acorn employees offering advice on evading taxes, setting up brothels and smuggling illegal immigrants.

No, I don't have any kind of comprehensive list yet and if I managed to compile one it would be out of date in short order. The more exposure they get the more affiliated groups are created- it's anyone's guess which one is the master though at one point this spot seemed to be held by CCI [Citizen’s Consulting Inc]. Horowitz's frontpage might have a list or flowchart.

The 280-300 figure appears to come from internet searches of Wade Rathke [the original founder of ACORN, a director of the Tides Foundation, chief organizer of SEIU local 100 and a member of SDS] & his New Orleans street address which reveals a multitude of orgs using the same offices and sharing the same people. Problem is, the some consider ACORN [a rather old organization] a separate entity from ACORN-INTL [a very young org]. The old ACORN became a part of the newer ACORN-INTL but ACORN, we are told, "left" ACORN-INTL when Wade Rathke was exposed over coverup of an embezzlement scheme.

This begs these questions: Some liberals claim Rathke was "fired" from ACORN after the embezzlement coverup was exposed. If so, how can he be fired if he was the founder? Did Rathke found the org as a proxy for others? He was a member of SDS- was ACORN created as a front for the old SDS? He was also an official at the Tides Foundation- was ACORN a front for that org? That org was founded by Drummond Pike, an official with Democracy Alliance, a Soros group that also funds ACORN [the part of it not funded by taxpayer's money]. Or was Rathke the master of ACORN at the start? If so, when did he lose so much control that he could be fired? If not, who was? Who is? Soros? A board of funders?

Is ACORN-INT, now COI, truly Rathke's org or is it under some other authority, some other group?

If the core of ACORN was the Rathke clan, then COI is for all practical purposes ACORN because it's under his command, like an admiral who just switched flagships retains the same authority. But if ACORN was some other group's front- Soros' and Lewis's front for example- and he was just a hired hand, then it is possible [though unlikely, IMHO] he has truly formed an independent group while ACORN, sans him, remains unchanged under his bosses. ACORN claims there is no connection between ACORN and Wade Rathke's COI since the split, if they truly split.

ACORN, according to its founder Rathke, is part of HCAN.[Kind of sounds like another nut, the pecan, lol. Question is, is this true, and if true, is COI part of HCAN?

... The HCAN Steering Committee is made up of the following organizations: ACORN, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, Americans United for Change, Campaign for America’s Future, Center for American Progress Action Fund, Campaign for Community Change, Children’s Defense Fund Action Council, Communications Workers of America, MoveOn.org, NAACP, National Council of La Raza, National Education Association, National Women’s Law Center, SEIU, UFCW, USAction, and Working America. -------x_plus_one to Red in Blue PA | To 2

Other related groups:

ACORN : affiliated with Voter March and No Blood For Oil. [riseup.net] ---------http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794584/posts?page=179#179

It's hard to follow all the groups and that is intentional- it makes it hard for prosecutors and researchers alike. It's easier to follow specific individuals and note the groups to which they belong or better yet, control financially. In fact it seems as though there are fewer individuals involved in the network than there are groups in the network.

It's complexity makes it obvious that this is a criminal network of moneylaunderers, no matter how you look at it.

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