ACORN Suspends Key Services Amid Probe

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ACORN Suspends Key Services Amid Probe
Admits undercover journos caught members in "indefensible actions"



ACORN, reeling from scandal after two journalists secretly recorded members in four cities discussing illegal activity, moved to save its reputation and guard against future "indefensible actions" by suspending key operations pending a probe.

"We have all been deeply disturbed by what we've seen in some of these videos," said ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis. "I must say, on behalf of ACORN's Board and our Advisory Council, that we will go to whatever lengths necessary to reestablish the public trust."

Lewis said that, "as a result of the indefensible action of a handful of our employees," the organization will halt to any new intakes into ACORN's service programs until completion of an independent review.

Staff members who deal directly with the public will be trained anew and the issues raised by the videos, shot by a pair of independent journalists in four cities, will be reviewed, Lewis said..

The journalists, James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, posed as a pimp and a hooker to catch ACORN workers in Baltimore, Washington, Brooklyn and San Bernadino, Calif., helping them plot illegal ways of getting around laws regarding income reporting. The pair even claimed at one point they were running a brothel with underage illegal immigrants, but the outrageous claim drew no moral judgment from ACORN staffers.

ACORN has won millions of dollars in local, state and federal grants for a wide range of social services. But the organization has also been accused of voter fraud and shady financial practices. In Brooklyn, where a staffer was recorded telling the pair how to hide their illegal income in order to get a mortgage, District Attorney Charles Hynes has announced a probe of ACORN.

The U.S. Census Bureau cut ties with the group earlier this week and the Senate on Monday voted overwhelmingly to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving millions in grants to ACORN.



http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/ACORN-59498812.html



Curse that Glen Beck and Fox News for airing those lie's about Acorn. Whoops, guess they were all true....
 
Who will conduct the “independent review?” Round up the usual suspects:

The Council includes many prominent Democrats, including the man who helped President Obama Transition Team, John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress; former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend; Andrew Stern, International President of the Service Employees International Union; and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros.

Cisneros, who worked regularly with ACORN as HUD Secretary, would later plead guilty to lying to the FBI to cover up a political embarrassment. Perfect choice. Townsend is so independent that she called the stories of ACORN’s frequent involvement in voter fraud a “desperate smokescreen maneuver” masking an extensive coast-to-coast GOP push to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of voters in 2008. No bias there. Stern heads SEIU, which has a very cozy relationship with ACORN. How cozy? ACORN controls or significantly dominates several SEIU chapters. And Stern hand-picked ACORN’s Wade Rathke to direct SEIU’s nationwide organizing projects. He could not be more independent. And Podesta runs the Soros-funded Center for American Progress, which has been coordinating the public defense of ACORN this summer. He might be even more independent than Andy Stern.


Can you say nothing will ever come of it.
 
John Stewart was right, where is the media?

Seriously they are going to just sit quietly by and report whatever ACORN "finds" in this internal probe?

Ugh... we are so effin screwed...
 
John Stewart was right, where is the media?

Seriously they are going to just sit quietly by and report whatever ACORN "finds" in this internal probe?

Ugh... we are so effin screwed...

ACORN slime is part of the corruption that makes DC stink. Where in the hell is the FBI on this???
 
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