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<p>ACORN officials offered to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents, according to an audiotape acquired by FOXNews.com.</p>

Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the IRS and how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents. In the videotape on BigGovernment.com, made on July 24, James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as a pimp with a 20-year-old woman named "Kenya" who posed as a prostitute while visiting ACORN's office in Baltimore. The couple told ACORN staffers they wanted to secure housing where the woman could continue to maintain a prostitution business. On the videotape,...

General Reports More than 24,000 Interrogations Conducted Since 2002; Assertions that All Interrogations Were Videotaped Affect Impending 9/11 TrialsNewark, NJ—Seton Hall Law’s Center for Policy and Research has discovered new evidence of a longstanding government practice of recording interrogations at Guantánamo Bay. In light of the national debate about the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) destruction of video recordings, the report proves that the two CIA tapes that were destroyed were only a tiny fraction of perhaps 24,000 recorded interrogations. A May 2005 report by Lieutenant General Kevin Kiley confirms that each interrogation at Guantánamo was videotaped. Lieutenant General Randall Schmidt...

LAUDERDALE LAKES, Fla. — Detectives are investigating a 9-year-old boy's allegations that his mother videotaped him being raped by a man, then sold or gave away the tape. The Broward County Sheriff's Office is looking into a formal complaint that the boy was raped at least five times between July and October, spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright said. Detectives are searching for the tape, she said. The man, Kevin Jerome Bynes, 27, of Lauderdale Lakes, was arrested Tuesday on five counts of sexual battery on a child under 12. He was being held without bond in the Broward County Jail. "The victim...

Press video screen to view movie or press here: http://www.krd1.com/quicktime/bush_sign.mov  Men videotaped vandalizing sign.Summit elections official catches culprits tearing down Bush-Cheney posterTwo men who tore down a Bush-Cheney sign and urinated on it were caught on videotape by Summit County Republican officials early Friday morning.The videotape shows the men sneaking into the yard of a West Market Street home and bending the sign to the ground. The men struggled to rip the sign out of the ground by shaking it and pulling it but couldn't get it off the posts, so they knocked it down. Sounds heard on the tape...

UPDATED: 2:41 p.m. PDT July 29, 2003 LOS ANGELES -- A judge declared a hung jury Tuesday in the case against a former Inglewood police officer accused of assaulting a handcuffed teenager during a videotaped arrest, but jurors found his partner innocent of falsifying a police report. Jeremy Morse, 25, the former officer accused of assault, could have received as much as three years in prison if convicted. His partner, Bijan Darvish, 26, would have faced the same penalty. The announcement came on the fourth day of deliberations. The verdict was read Tuesday afternoon in court before Superior Court Judge...

<p>MADRID, Spain (AP) --  An al-Qaida suspect who shot videotapes of U.S. landmarks believed to have been used to prepare the Sept. 11 attacks may go free once he posts bail, a defense lawyer's firm said Tuesday.</p> <p>Spain's top terrorism judge, Baltasar Garzon, set bail at $146,550 each for Ghasoub Al-Abrash Ghalyoun and two other al-Qaida suspects. They had previously been held in preventative custody -- meaning no bail was set.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Lawyers for two Southern California police officers charged with abusing a teen-age suspect said Thursday evidence that might have cleared the officers was withheld by prosecutors from a grand jury.</p> <p>Inglewood, California, police officers Jeremy Morse and Bijan Darvish face charges in connection with the videotaped arrest of 16-year-old Donovan Jackson at a suburban Los Angeles gas station in July.</p>