Posted on 03/01/2010 5:25:23 PM PST by Former Military Chick
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Employees at the U.S. liberal grass-roots group ACORN who were caught on video giving tax advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, New York prosecutors said on Monday.
The organization has been reeling since a YouTube video was disseminated last September showing ACORN workers giving advice on how to flout the law to two conservative activists who posed as a pimp and a prostitute.
The U.S. Congress then voted by wide margins to prohibit the federal government from funding ACORN, and the U.S. Census Bureau ended its partnership with the group.
Following a five-month investigation, no criminal wrongdoing was uncovered, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said in a statement.
The employees involved in the incident at the group's Brooklyn office were fired and the New York chapter left ACORN and set up a new organization, ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said.
Republicans have long accused the group of fraud in registering voters and improperly mixing political and nonpolitical activities. ACORN has denied the allegations.
ACORN plays a significant political role in low-income neighborhoods and in 2008 signed up 1.3 million people to register to vote in areas where Democrats poll well.
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http://biggovernment.com/rstone/2009/10/05/acorn-advances-in-new-york-tied-to-absentee-ballot-fraud/
Posted Oct 5th 2009
ACORN Advances in New York: Tied to Absentee Ballot Fraud
by Roger Stone
Last week was both good and bad for the leftist activism for profit and power leadership of ACORN. Their tentacles will finally reach New York City Hall and the Pension funds of New York City ,when the Democratic nominees for Public Advocate and City Comptroller, both of whom owe their nomination to the ACORN front- the New York Working Families Party, are elected this November. At the same time a scandal started to unravel in a upstate New York county where, for the first time, ACORN is under the scrutiny of a District Attorney who is not a Democrat cross-endorsed by the WFP.
Make no mistake about it , the so called Working Families Party, a party with no county chairmen or county committees, and no unpaid workers, is merely a front for ACORN. They share the same office and addresses. ACORN Executive Director Bertha Lewis is the Co-Chair and de-facto boss of the well heeled little party. Labor pours in millions to leverage the Democratic Party to the Left .on their issues. With New York deeply in the hole and with state revenue dropping sharply, there is no discussion of cutting the states bloated labor costs.
The WFP, controlled by ACORN, has no shortage of cash, indeed the partys founder embezzeled $1 Million dollars but the ACORN elected not to prosecute him for fear of a court laying bare their financial books and records.
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Great find
“The employees involved in the incident at the group’s Brooklyn office were fired “
no wrongdoing indeed!
When Democrats hold office...
The ACORN workers weren’t filmed of wrongdoing in NY. They were caught in San Diego, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and DC.
How did this end up in NY? Does ACORN get to choose the venue or is that where there National HQ is at?
ACORN was simply trying to help a needy pimp set up shop.
Nothing illegal there. /s
Hynes also ran on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative lines in 2009-- he was unopposed.
Thanks for the ping!
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