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ACORN Employees Will Not Be Charged With Any Crime, NY Prosecutor Concludes

March 9, 2010 by  

ACORN employees will not be charged with any crime, NY prosecutor concludes Following a five-month investigation, employees from the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) who were caught on video reportedly offering advice on how to cheat on taxes and loan applications to a couple posing as a prostitute and a pimp have been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said last week.

Republicans have long accused the controversial anti-poverty group of widespread corruption and voter registration fraud, and have suggested that the organization has close ties to the current administration.

Shortly after the investigation began, Congress voted by a wide margin to cut off federal funding to ACORN, although that decision is currently being disputed in court.

Meanwhile, several of the organization’s offices have disbanded and resumed operations under new names and with similar staffs, Fox News Reports.

Although the two employees have been cleared, ACORN is still under federal investigation for fraud and corruption.

Kurt Bardella, spokesman for Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), said that the federal inquiry "will expose the criminal nature of ACORN’s deliberate effort to abuse taxpayer dollars to advance a radical political agenda," according to the news source.
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  • J Edward

    JackH: You are the first ray of sanity I have read on this site.

    • s c

      J Edward, while you’re on the sanity topic, I’d like to have two short, quick answers. Did the prosecutor take 5 months to conclude that the tapes had been altered? Did he confirm or deny that employees at the ACORN office are in the habit of telling people how to be pimps or learn how to avoid the IRS or fudge on a loan application?
      If New York may or may not investigate matters thoroughly, they might as well pick names out of a phone book and tell America what happened via a stellar publication similar to what you see on the way out of a grocery store. This may be social justice, it but also reeks of Chicago-style, pig sty ‘justice.’

  • JackH

    The prosecutor stated that the video tapes that were broadcast on TV were not authentic but had been altered. Thus, what actually happened was not one and the same as was presented in the clips shown on TV.

    It seems that if you are interested in the truth then you would not be jumping to conclusions about the prosecutor’s ethics but instead demanding that the original tapes be released to the public so that anyone could view them along with the clips played on TV so you could know for sure whether the prosecutor was wrong or the film maker committed a fraud against all of us.

    If the original tapes are not released, I guess we will have to wait and see what the outcome of Acorn’s suit against the film maker.

    • Warrior

      Someone in this bunch deserves an oscar.

      • http://www.NRA.com Stephaan

        Is this going to be a “shared” oscar, or are you going to give one to Jack H, and a second one to the prosecutor? ;-)

    • Time

      JackH,

      Are you for real? If you it had been an FBI STING, you would get clips / snippets even in court.
      Where did you get your law degree again?
      There are many shades of gray in the law, and then there is Vivid color.

  • http://wwwNRA.com Stephaan

    No surprise here!
    A corrupt liberal prosecutor, from a corrupt liberal city within the largest corrupt liberal city in America, with coaching and pressure from O’liar and his thug czars in the white house.
    Judging from past performance, did anybody really expect a different outcome?

  • http://gmail Raindancer

    Court systems, and all our legal systems are just a corrupt system to sell infulence and maniplate businesses are commerce for a price. If you are a failing lawyer run for public office. Look at who is in office, and how bills are written, a convoluted mess to keep the court system swamped. Othuger and his henchmen, never had a problem wirh the Black Panther gorillias in front of voting zone. Acorn the bastard group of democrat sub set, funded by taxpayer money and Goerge Sorisos, and shepard by theelequant idoit in the WH.

  • okay

    more facts on comedy central than on real conservative tv
    http://www.indecisionforever.com/2010/03/05/colbert-pimps-out-sean-hannity/

  • Robin from Arcadia, IN

    We must vote the corrupt out. There is no other way…

  • ONTIME

    It’s plain to see that the MSM is not going to be of any use for the pursuit of any unethical exposure of any organization affiliated with the Jackass Party, this includes ACORN,SEIU ad nauseum of all the lib leftist activities involved in trying to disrupt the laws and values of this nation. These are jr communist organizations for the most part and legal entities such as the SPC and ACLU are going to protect them from all investigations and prosecutions. THe idea that no charges are being brought or fines imposed on ACORN even with the hard evidence at hand is not surprising or unexpected.

    When the November elections come due, these known groups will team up with non citizen groups and illegals to compromise your ballot box by doing their level best to stuff your vote and make it invalid. You will be accosted, intimidated and pressured to either not vote or change your vote and much of it will take place at the precint where you plan to cast your vote. Chnaces are this activity will again be given a free pass and no legal action will result.

  • http://personallibertydigest stan g

    All I can add is “DITTO” to all the above. Support the November ’10 revolution.

  • judyavelsor

    I know what IRS should Audit every Acorn wanna be. That will teach them to give advice. Poor people at acorn . Don’t you feel sorry for them. It is like Jesus . No room for the good at the inn. Only scum need apply. Spell corrupt C_O_R_R_U_P_T_ and than some. They help the whores get a house but poor live in the forest !
    Whore is not listed on the application. A Mom with 3 kids needs a home . . . but they will help the pimp / how cute is that.

    • Harold Olsen

      No way is the IRS gong to audit ACCORN. The IRS is part of the corruption. They find that you’ve made a mistake on your income tax and they’ll wait three or four years before they notify you and then you have to pay the interest for those three or four years that they waited. I’m speaking from person experience. Plus, they’ll be used to enforce Obamacare when it is passed. You’ll have to declare on your tax form whether or not you have a GOVERNMENT APPROVED heathcare and if you don’t you get a fine or go to jail, or both. This agency should be abolished.

    • zack

      judyavelsor they have to have the ladies of the street corners and of course the pimps or mayor Bloomberg and his people wouldn’t have any place to take Obama and all in the whitehouse when they visit NY, and of course Bloombergs cronies wouldn’t have anything to do on their off time. Maybe that’s why all those from Washington visit NY frequently Bloomberg might be getting all his money from these ladies, he might be one of their pimps. hehe

  • http://n/a Lila O’Connell

    Another one of those unbelievable decisions that one cannot fathom the justice of it.

    Unless……

  • Warrior

    If they were in fact found guilty of wrongdoing, we wouldn’t have enough census takers. Where’s everyones priorities?

    • J C

      Funny guy you are ;)

  • JeffH

    It all starts with Mayor Bloomberg and dribbles down. The better question to ask is “what isn’t corrupt in New York”?

  • Sunshine

    OK all you people in N.Y. NOW is the time to get that district attorney OUT of that office. This is corruption at its highest and
    this office has evidently received lots of moola for their decisions on this known by all, corrupt group.
    Also, tell your reps that you dont want this ACORN given any of our tax payer money, which helps them continue with their evil practices. Come on people, use your voices and emails to let them know how you feel. Spouting here just doesnt do the thing of getting rid of these corrupt officials. TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES in D.C. and locally.

  • mv

    Umm, really, Acorn, who counts no votes, is involved in registration fraud…. people this is bullshit. If I fraudulently fill out a voter form with Mickey Mouse, it is not Acorn that is at fault it is the person filling it out. I would be engaging in voter registration fraud, like Darnell Nash, who was charged. Darnell has no affiliation with Acorn other than he submitted his form thru them…. guilt by association…

    Acorn is required BY LAW to submit ALL voter registration forms no matter how many Mickey Mouses are in there. Besides, if you read any of the reports, Acorn submitted them in the “possible fraudulent” pile of submitted forms.

    Now on to the pimp story. O’keefe did not dress up as a pimp, and the video were heavily edited…. epic failure from a sorry ideology.

    Even rupert Murdocks NY Post tried to come clean sort off… read the comments by the “conservatives”

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/acorn_set_up_by_vidiots_da_x16IroTf4AsXCI19nttFLL

    Here are the facts.

    Voter registration is were you fill out a form with false information and submit it to a register.

    Voter fraud is were you knowingly vote with a fraudulent voter card out of district, with false information on election day. Ann Coulter was guilty of this in 2004 in FL and received no penalty…

    Election fraud is what went on in FL in 200 and Ohio in 2004.

    More information…

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/gops-acorn-voter-fraud-li_b_132844.html

    The bottom line is this, that Acorn enfranchises poor people. Poor people do not vote republican. Republican “news” outlets need boogie men like communist, socialists, terrorists and liberals to project and scapegoat, without boogie men, republicans have no agenda.

    You cannot run your campaign promises to enrich 1% of the citizens at the expense of the bottom 95% and win elections.

  • Merl Elton

    Acorn is a haven for riff raff. This is the administration of riff raff, thugs, you name it.

  • Merl Elton

    Powerful poltics in favor of the Democratic party are in force in denying fault where it is obvious. To deny what is clear and can be verifed says a lot about the democrats. I pity the poor Acorn exposers; perhaps they should leave the country.

  • Time

    Can anyone say Mob style?
    Thats what our court system is now, it has lost all its value.

    I ask this simple question why is it that the Justice Dept. is not going after Barrys BC. Thats their job based on what the written law states.

    Yet they along with Perkins & Cole and the Federal court system have held all questions of Barry’s BC off with no rational nor legal reason’s at all.

    Whats that say about our “COURT SYSTEM?”

  • Marc Jeric

    Abu Hussein from Kenya, our Community Organizer-in-Chief, is the top boss of ACORN brownshirts – his system of local soviets, in charge of giving phony mortgages to “underserved minorities” and of voter fraud. So why the surprise about this coverup?

  • http://gmail i41

    Dems always use double standrads. At present, with the health care issue, simple majority is no problem. Obbamee was having such a fit when dems weren’t in majorities, but in the reversal of powers, then it doesn’t matter. Durning other rep. President’s administrations, dem. run their mouths about how wrong it is, but willuse the manuvor. if they get the chance. The math dems use is always a joke. Every program promoted by the Washington dreamers, the theories never work out, it is always 4 times costly than projected. But since history isn’t taught in schools, and the attention span of 5 minutes, the people who vote, use their 3rd grade training the gives us this tpye of government. Dems always revert to the past play books in rigging elections with groups of their thugs. It was a standrad operating proceedure durning Tamminy Hall days. Dems are just like shunks, cann’t change their stripes and always stink up the area.

  • s c

    Here we go again. Most people who have and use common sense know what’s going on with this topic. ACORN, that septic tank of anarchists and subhuman trash, is doing its best to tell America that it’s “OK” to be pimps. It’s “OK” to tell people how to cheat on taxes [where's the IRS?] and cut corners on loan applications.
    Geepers! Does this mean that America’s compassionate and loving, ultraliberal progressives have once again taken the high ground when it comes to morality and accountability?
    No, what it means is that ultraliberal progressives and their role models [Obummer, Motormouth Joe, nancy, chris, charlie, barney, pat, and all the rest have all the common sense and morals of a manure pile.
    IF we had a real attorney general and IF we had leaders in the White House and Congress, we’d expect an entirely different outcome. This is predictability at its WORST, America.
    OK, weasels, explain yourselves. You multi-faced twits who infest this web site with your ‘do what thou wilt’ philosophy again have a chance to try and whitewash your anti-American, freedom-hating ways. Bring it on, you miserable, useful idiots!

    • J C

      sc, I think we both know that their mission is to implelment communism by undermining, in every way the can, the American fabric.
      And their leader? Well ain’t he just the coolest thing sinse Che?

  • Raggs

    As long as obama is involved with acorn they will get away with it.

  • lori

    I think the “investigators” are also ACORN employees or are getting kickbacks from BHO. This smells of Chicago style politics!

    • Harold Olsen

      Perhaps the only way to get rid of them is the Chicago Way as well.

  • cerebus23

    lest if the right does not skrew up, they will have a few more seats in congress to keep an eye on these investigations as it were.

    acorn on the federal payroll would be like having the christian right on the federal payroll for voter enrollment. cept i doubt the christian right would be pressuring banks to give loans, voters to vote for one specific candidate, child prostitution, tax fraud, voter fraud, etc etc.

    no group should be on the federal payroll that has a political outlook when it comes to voter duties, just too much opportunity for for mischief period.

    • Conservative Carl

      Somebody has bought into the lies from the socialists in power about the Christian “right”. As an evangelical Christian I have no desire to impose my religion on anyone or tell anyone they had to vote a certain way. The Christian “right” wants the freedom to worship, to vote, to assemble peacefully, to have these freedoms for ourselves and for others who have different views.
      Too few people realize that those with Marxist views have had some influence in our government for decades but have gained much more influence in the last two years. ACORN is only a small part of the problem and they will be protected by the current administration that is loaded with Marxists and humanists.

      • Yahweh

        Jesus was a communist

      • Joe H.

        Hey, we now hear from an ACORN employee!!!!

      • Fed Up Gal in NM

        Joe H,

        Yep; you’re probably right…and probably back on the Census team again now. Speaking of Census…I got my warm and fuzzy census docs today; have not even opened the envelope. I took my sweet time last time (1-2 years ago…for that “random” out of 10-yr cycle Census). I’m just about tired of providing any more info. I have no trust the info will even be used for legitimate purposes….probably to “fund” more dollars for illegals, ACORN (same thing in my book), CZARS (same thing in my book), educational benefits for prisoners (hmmmm…same thing in my book).

        Last time, they called me at work and at home…because I did not submit the form. They called several times and sent follow-up “you better” letters, over several months. I finally said…”So…..what if I don’t complete the form? The agent said “Well…we might come to your home or work and do an interview with you”, and “if you refuse you should know you can go to jail”. I said…”well, you better plan on coming to work, because my gate is locked and unless you plan to scale my 6-foot gate to get access to my courtyard and front door…you might want to come up with another game plan”. After much hem-hawing around, I said “I’ll complete the none of your business form when I get time and put it back in snail mail when I get more time”. So I took about 2 more months filling out the 10 page or so form and mailed back. If I was already retired, I would consider not sending it to just see if the thugs would actually follow-through and put me in jail. The problem right now is, I need my paycheck to make my mortgage payment and pay my other responsibilities…so I’m not really keen on pushing it right now. I will however take my sweet time again this year!

        Fed Up Gal

      • Alan Clark

        Whiiishhh….WHAT WAS THAT? A HIT AND RUN?

      • Fed Up Gal in NM

        Alan Clark,

        Whooooooshhhhh….I’m confident Joe H. understood it. I was responding to his reference about “ACORN employee”.

        Fed Up Gal

      • Alan Clark

        Not at all Fed Up, I was refering to YahWeh’s coment.

      • Fed Up Gal in NM

        Alan Clark,

        Ok; thanks for the explanation….AND…Sorry I misunderstood.

        Where’s “Eyes” when I am admitting I made a mistake? LoL.

        Fed Up Gal

      • Fed Up Gal in NM

        Conservative Carl,

        You got that right! If people don’t get it now….they must be truly clueless and beyond help.

        Fed Up Gal

  • DaveH

    It’s unbelievable to me how the Democrats swarmed Richard Nixon (I never liked that man, though) over the Watergate Break-In, and yet turn a blind eye to the rampant corruption that surrounds the current administration.
    Come to think of it, it is believable, as anybody who can blatantly grab the money of others and lie like they do is capable of anything.

    Here is yet another example of the corruption:
    http://newsmax.com/Headline/massa-emanuel-healthcare-obama/2010/03/08/id/351976?s=al&promo_code=98E6-1

    • Mary

      We have a Gangster Government. I hope their days in power are counted.
      You are right these people are septic tank subhuman trash. That Emanuel is the worst of them. WHAT A RAT.

      • Betty C

        God help us get rid of all this corruption!!!!

      • Fred

        NO look at what the our forfathers did for us .They left us tools to use in case this happened some times force may be needed our counrty is the blood bank for every low life out there,We need to take care of our own then help others.This admin is cutting our arms off then asking give me a hand.Hows that change working for you!!!!!!!!

    • judyavelsor

      The judiciary ? Tell us all who is corrupt. the friends? the family? the Government? Disgusting. The DA . There are more thieves out than in. Acorn is just one in many. Come on give us all their new names list them ON THE DOLLAR BILL. Never look up to anyone . You only find out when they are standing they are lower than the curb. A worm.One never knows. Odd isn’t it we never know the true side of people. Yeah things are so bad ya’ gotta do a background check on your teacher or
      The clergy. . . Give a little they take a lot. Speaking of “Lot” “you know what happened to his wife”

      You cannot tell your Reps. anything. “Most” do not listen. Brain dead or stone deaf.

      • Fed Up Gal in NM

        Judy,

        Yes, unfortunately few “leaders” in public office display any integrity whatsoever; in fact…I’m not sure they ever learned the definition of the word. What a waste of flesh and gray matter. That’s why we have to show them we’re serious….vote ‘em out(for good)!

        Fed Up Gal

      • Mike In MI

        They’re so blatant about it. I sometimes wonder if they have the deal rigged to arrogate perpetual power? Every minute they run the country the stench in Washington, District of Corruption gets more unbearable. It seems to emanate from the Offal Orifice in the Out House and, also, Capitulate Hell where the Sin-it and Hows of Reprehensibles do their business.

        OOPs! Got to go. The Dawgs want out to do their business.

  • Jack

    I wonder why a 5 month long investigation was needed when the video clearly showed what the ACORN employees were doing. If what they were doing wasn’t wrong, then there is no difference between right and wrong. The Brooklyn DA should be tarred and feathered and run out of town. I guess the president is real proud of him.

    • DaveH

      The Fix is In.

      • Betty C

        Yeah! Right!! We can’t believe our eyes and ears.

      • Joe H.

        DaveH,
        I wonder who needs more proof that government is corrupt???

      • cr747

        I knew Obama,,Bloomberg,,and others would get the charges dropped.. Now you know how crooked our Washington Cronies really are.. It is definitely time we let them know that we will not tolerate dropping charges on such a horrific crime,,and that if it where,”We The People,”who do pay our taxes,,and live by the rules would be fined,,and go to prison for a while..

        This is getting completely out of hand..We need to write,,phone,,and e-mail the one’s serving our State and District,,and let them know we are tired of the double standards that they are pushing on all of us.. It is so sickening every time I see Obama show his MUG on TV or see it in the paper along with some of the others that are breaking the LAWS of The Constitution that our FOREFATHERS established for,,”We The People..”It is time we let them know enough is enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • J C

      And corruption continues to run rampant…

    • Harold Olsen

      I wonder if he’s an ACCORN supporter. He not only should be run out of town and tarred and feathered he should be disbarred.

    • Fed Up Gal in NM

      You said it, Jack! Nothing like blatant corruption with a P.S. Thumbnosing. This is exactly why people are so angry now.

      Fed Up Gal

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