Posted on 10/01/2009 10:51:21 AM PDT by khnyny
ACORN's lawyer warned ACORN 15 months ago to begin fixing its massive internal problems or face certain catastrophe. ACORN didn't listen. It let the problems fester.
The advice from Elizabeth Kingsley of Harmon, Curran, Spielberg Eisenberg LLP came in the form of an eerily prophetic legal memo to ACORN dated June 19, 2008, the day before ACORN's national board fired disgraced founder Wade Rathke.
The memo is a kind of Holy Grail for ACORN researchers. One source of mine keeps a copy in a safety deposit box. I've lost track of how many people have asked me over the last year if I knew how to get a hold of it. One source told me yesterday that there are many people who would "kill" to gain possession of it. This is a bit of an exaggeration perhaps, but not much.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
It’s over here, too:
http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/01/exclusive-acorn-legal-memo-confirms-depths-of-troubles/
American Spectator had original story and the complete document is now posted on Big Government.
Consider the people at ACORN. They are all thieves and liers.
Didn’t I just read a story on free republic saying that Obama wants to take a few weeks to think about it?
It's sucks to get old.
Hehe. Ain’t it great? ;-)
http://media.artdiamondblog.com/images2/MickeyMouseVoterRegistration-thumb-468x312.jpg
http://www.acorn-8.net/PDFs/USAttComp.pdf
Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as a Criminal Enterprise?
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/11079244/Is-ACORN-Intentionally-Structured-as-a-Criminal-Enterprise
An organization composed of people with no business or professional management experience can hardly be expected to be well-run or well-managed. An organization that has no respect for the law can hardly be expected to have it’s internal practices stand up to legal scrutiny.
In one of my lives, I read legal opinions provided to me by my organization’s counsel. We take all of these memos very seriously. These memos are crafted carefully to say only what they mean and mean what they say.
But in my experience, I have never been confronted with a memo remotely like this.
“If you do not make some hard choices now and ensure they are carried out, they almost certainly will be made for you.”
If I’d seen this in a memo written to me by my attorney, I’d crap my pants. And take immediate action.
If I’d seen this in a memo written to me by my attorney, I’d crap my pants. And take immediate action.
No s**t!!
“It’s sucks to get old.”
But, as they say, it’s better than the alternative.
Thanks for the links.
There is nothing “alleged” in ACORN’s law-breaking. There have already been more than fifteen convictions.
Why should they comply?
Seriously?
Would you if you knew that you were “hooked up” and nothing would ever happen to you?
Sounds as if she's not an in-house lawyer -- and there's no indication of how long she'd been assigned to ACORN by her firm. She sounds like a real go-getter (possibly one of those liberals who really are idealists -- if immature and ungrounded -- who truly believes ACORN really really only wants to help the poor).
Without further information (which certainly may be forthcoming), I would guess that this lawyer was newly assigned and sincerely wanted to get things with ACORN ship-shape and thought that it was only their lack of sophistication in the business and political world (yes, I know!) that led to such a mess! Which is why she was so honest, and so apparently uninformed heretofore!
I didn't see anything in the article, but does anyone know if ACORN is an actual paying client, a pro bono account, or just deeply discounted?
The real question is how will the leak of this impact the lawsuit Acorn is threatening against Breitbart and the videographers that made the undercover tapes?
I would love to see a trial because discovery of evidence like this will be priceless! The drip-drip-drip of waterboarding that will eventually flood closer and closer to 0zer0.
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