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• ACORN, the Working Families Party and Corruption: Part 2, Who’s Doing All the Lobbying?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  [Ed: This excerpt is the second in a series of articles originally reported at City Hall. Go here for Part I in the series. Lead reporter on City Hall investigation was Edward-Isasc Dovere.] The Working Families Organization, a tax-exempt 501(c)4, was legally created with a certificate of incorporation filed with ...
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• U.S. Attorney Subpoenas Working Families Party

  
  JammieWearingFool — Authority: 719
  What a surprise that a group closely tied to ACORN would come under suspicion.The feds are joining the numerous investigations of the Working Families Party.Dan Cantor, the partys executive director, disclosed today that it has "received requests for information" from the U.S. Attorneys office in Manhattan, as have ...
  1 week ago

• ACORN, the Working Families Party and Political Corruption, Part I

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  [ Ed Note: Recently, City Hall in New York published an amazing multi-part investigative piece on possible corruption, illegal activities and general shadiness within the multi-pronged Working Families Party in New York. For those of you searching for examples of what investigative journalism used to be like, ...
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• Judge Blocks ACORN Funding Ban

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 636
      AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker         A federal judge has blocked U.S. officials from enforcing a funding ban on the community action group ACORN , the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. At the same time, an independent investigation shows the ...
  1 week ago

• Study: ACORN Did Nothing Illegal - Fox News: So What?

  
  News Corpse — Authority: 426
  Last summer Fox News participated in a media frenzy surrounding some sensationalistic videos produced by conservative activists and promoted by right-wing propaganda outlets. The ACORN representatives in the videos appeared to counsel a couple of cartoonish characters posing as a pimp and a prostitute on how to apply ...
  2 weeks ago

• Activist Brooklyn Judge Delivers for ACORN, Re-funds Group

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  File this one under the category of Predicable News of the Year: A Brooklyn federal judge, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, adopted the argument of hometown Congressman and ACORN apologist Jerrold Nadler that Congress’s efforts to “defund” ACORN amounted to a bill of attainder, and thus were ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Independent’ Report Reveals: ACORN’s Problems Are Sooo 2008

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  The “independent” investigation of ACORN has been completed, and the final report is in. The verdict? ACORN has done nothing illegal, and most of its problems stem from the subpar leadership of its founder and former “chief organizer,” Wade Rathke. As long as Rathke and his allies are out of the picture, ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACORN found not guilty and in a related story OJ demands a new trial

  
  I Hate the Media Article Feed — Authority: 601
  ACORN looked really hard and couldnt find any scandal here. To sum this story up briefly, ACORN has just conducted an investigation into ACORN and has determined that ACORN is not guilty of any ACORN-like activities. Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, who was selected to perform an ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACORN Whitewash: ACORN Report Is Dishonest Legal Hair-Splitting

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  I participated in listen-only mode in the teleconference call Monday in which ACORN’s  allegedly independent “audit” was released. I regret it was difficult to make out what the players were saying. That’s because as the left ferociously circled the wagons, all the creaking wheel noises in the background ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACORN Whitewash: What ACORN Won’t Tell You About the ‘Audit’ it Bought

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  On September 16, 2009, with much fanfare, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis  announced that ACORN was hiring an independent auditor to review its internal processes.  Yesterday, the former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger produced a report finding ACORN, as a corporation, engaged in administrative negligence. ...
  2 weeks ago

• ACORN Prober Finds No Illegal Pattern On Videos

  
  One Man's Thoughts — Authority: 435
  An internal investigation of ACORN by Scott Harshbarger found no pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staffers on undercover videos. Did anyone expect anything different? The videos of ACORN staffers offering advice to a woman and a man posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend triggered a firestorm of ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Recycled ACORN Whitewash: Wade Rathke Responds

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  The internal report issued by former Massachusetts Attorney General is out . Clearly, here’s what the headline will be . The high-profile lawyer hired to investigate ACORN has found no pattern of intentional illegal conduct in the community organizing group — a finding that was dismissed as “damage ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Complete ACORN Whitewash Report: Nothing to See Here Folks, Move Along…We Have to Pass ObamaCare

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  Well, ACORN retained a law firm to investigate its operations and, surprise, the law firm found that ACORN hadn’t done anything wrong in the undercover videos filmed by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. The review, overseen by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harschbarger, a long-time ally of ACORN, found ...
  3 weeks ago

• Is ACORN Engaged in a Massive Money Laundering Scheme?

  
  CRC Blog — Authority: 470
  I have an article in today’s American Spectator about ACORN’s racketeering and money laundering activities. Here’s the top of it: Is ACORN engaged in a massive money laundering scheme? Although evidence abounds that the radical left-wing advocacy group-cum-organized crime syndicate is recycling funds ...
  3 weeks ago

• Poor People Will Soon Be Homeless — Thanks to ACORN

  
  CRC Blog — Authority: 470
  New York State’s highest court has cleared the way for an ambitious $5 billion taxpayer-funded development to be built in Brooklyn. On his TV show Monday Glenn Beck pointed out that a group that claims to protect the interests of poor people, ACORN , helped make possible the deal that will make current ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hey, ACORN Wants A Name Change

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 483
  POLITICO has the document.As if a name change is going to wash away the muck.
  4 weeks ago

• What Happens When a PI Dumpster Dives Behind a San Diego ACORN Office?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  He strikes the flippin’ mother lode! At least that’s what happened to private investigator Derrick Roach at the National City (San Diego) ACORN office.  Yep, Roach scored big-time on the cockroaches of ACORN when he staked out their San Diego workplace. According to señor Roach via BigGovernment.com , ...
  4 weeks ago

• Wade Rathke and the Myth of ACORN

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 446
  -By Anita MonCrief Wade Rathke, former chief organizer of the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), spoke at the University of Memphis yesterday and expressed his dismay at the current predicament ACORN finds itself in: “Rathke stepped down from ACORN in 2008. Since his departure, ...
  4 weeks ago

• BREAKING: San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 483
  San Diego ACORN Document Dump Scandal.Over the weeks and months ahead, BigGovernment.com will continue to release information from this shocking document dump by ACORN, slowly revealing the ugly truth of ACORN: the fact that their stated mission of helping the poor and downtrodden is just a ruse and a cover for an ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why Isn’t Anyone Really Investigating ACORN?

  
  Big Government — Authority: 817
  As we rapidly approach December 18 th , the day when ACORN is again eligible to receive federal funds, we still have yet to see a meaningful investigation of ACORN. Last week,  the Inspector General of the Department of Justice released a “Review of Department of Justice Grants to the Association of Community ...
  5 weeks ago

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