Acorn’s Cash For Hookers
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
Acorn is in trouble after their offices were caught on hidden camera
After Acorn workers were caught on tape in three cities allegedly abetting what they believed was a fraudulent-mortgage and sex-trafficking scheme, the Senate has voted overwhelmingly to strip the group of funding in the Transportation/Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill.
The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed by an 83-to-7 margin and marked the third time this year that Republicans have tried to block the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now from feeding at the federal trough.
Seven Democrats refused to do the right thing. The magnificent seven are Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.; Bob Casey, D-Pa.; Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.; both Vermont Democrats, Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy, as well as both Illinois Democrats, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin and Roland Burris.
This vote comes after the release of three hidden-camera videos showing Acorn housing staff in its Baltimore, Washington and New York offices apparently helping a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute evade the IRS and apply for an illegal housing loan to set up a brothel. (Insert stimulus joke here.) The Census Bureau immediately severed ties with Acorn, unconcerned that prostitutes and tax evaders might be undercounted in the 2010 census.
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Tags: Acorn, Hidden Camera, Prostitution
September 16th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
What the expose' has shown concerning Acorn is frightening. Where are the overseers of this organization? How could they give away the money they did so freely, so fraudently? Who is their CEO? This money is essentially the taxpayors money. We demand an accounting of ALL Acorn's finances.
September 16th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Oops. I misspelled fraudulently and taxpayer…in my posted comments.
September 16th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Obama – ACORN = Fraud! He has been and still is in bed with them, hell he worked for them.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:35 am
Do not forget — Obama said he wanted to be judged by the people he chose to have around him. Anyone checking out the Czars? Van Jones is only the tip of the iceberg. And let us hear it for ACORN. My Dad told me years ago that people would judge me by the company I kept.