Why Isn’t Anyone Really Investigating ACORN?
by Chris BergAs we rapidly approach December 18th, 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 Organizations for Reform Now, Inc. (ACORN) and its Affiliated Organizations.” Unsurprisingly this report “did not find any DOJ direct grants to ACORN.” The report did however reveal approximately $200,000 in sub-grants to ACORN affiliates. This number pales in comparison to the amount of federal money ACORN and its affiliates have received from other agencies.
ACORN and its affiliates have received over $54 million in federal grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). These are the grants that the government should be investigating. How did ACORN spend these federal tax dollars? Were they used for their designated purposes? Does ACORN owe the federal government a refund?
The Department of Justice should have answered calls to investigate ACORN’s criminal and fraudulent activity. The evidence continues to mount, and the Department of Justice continues to look the other way.
Last week Representative Vernon Ehlers, along with Reps. Mary Bono and Connie Mack, introduced House Resolution 911, a resolution “Requesting the Attorney General to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations regarding the organization ACORN.” The resolution calls on Attorney General Holder to appoint a special counsel because:
“Whereas there has not been a cohesive approach to investigating these allegations;
“Whereas a special counsel should be appointed to investigate, in a cohesive manner, the allegations that Federal monies are possibly being used illegally by ACORN or any of its affiliates, both formal and informal, including all subsidiaries and entities controlled by ACORN;
“Whereas a special counsel should also investigate ACORN’s relationship with all allied organizations and any individual or organization that has been complicit in the criminal activity of ACORN and its employees;”
Representative Ehlers is right; it’s time that the Obama administration takes a serious look into ACORN and the mounting evidence of its wrongdoing. Sadly, the failure to investigate ACORN has not been limited to the Obama Administration.
Representatives John Conyers and Jerry Nadler have failed to launch Congressional hearings into ACORN. Conyers has noted that “the powers that be” won’t allow them.
Even ACORN’s “internal investigation” has yet to yield any results. When ACORN’s “Independent” Advisory Council appointed former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to conduct an internal review he promised preliminary findings by the end of October. As we near the end of November ACORN has yet to publically release any information regarding Harshbarger’s findings, yet this has not stopped them from carrying on their business as usual. Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) Chairman David A. Norcross has called on ACORN “to announce their findings and produce meaningful answers into the issues raised by the ACORN 8, speak to the consequences of the Rathke embezzlement, including its cover up, and address the money laundering that has taken place at its affiliates.”
Rather than addressing the many flaws of the organization, ACORN is instead choosing to attack those who dared to expose them. Hannah Giles, James O’Keefe, and Andrew Breitbart have been sued for exposing ACORN employees counseling individuals on how to evade IRS regulations and engage in criminal activity. ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief has also been sued by ACORN. They haven’t stopped there. ACORN has sued the Pennsylvania Attorney General in an attempt to justify and defend its criminal activity, and most recently ACORN has sued the federal government demanding access to federal funds. ACORN should address its systemic internal problems before attempting to blame and punish others.
While it is comforting that the Department of Justice has not made any “direct grants” to ACORN, it’s time that Justice mounts a real investigation of this troubled organization.
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Could it be they think you are bluffing and they are planning on calling you on it. Apparently they are paying very close attention to the Acorn videos or your other postings. They seem to take them a "face" value. They appear to be as dumb as we think they are.
Because they are protected by Obama, Holder and alot of Dems in the House and Senate.
You can bet that Derrick Roach will soon make the hit list of ACORN. Nothing is going to happen as far as investigating until after 2010, because of the Democratic Majority. They will not investigate their own. Look at Charlie Rangel, Chris Dodd, Bawrney Fwank, Timothy Geithner, and the list goes on and on and on…
2010 is coming and there is going to be some new hope and change that will clean house… you never know what you might find under the rug!
Just get em.Take them away and bury them. Private Eyes need to be funded and follow the smelly trail of corruption to the White House doorstep. Inside people need to further infiltrate the sysyetm even deeper till the resignations or impeachment proceedings take hold. It is so obvious!
A lot of corrupticians are discovering that having failed to clean their own house others are now stepping up to do it for them.
This will continue and accelerate, by June of next year the corrupticians will be falling all over themselves to turn their co-conspirators in before the they have the same done to them.
It's going to start getting out of control very very soon and I am going to truly enjoy watching the show
even if we saw the slime goin under the whitehouse door, holder would do nothing….
If the DOJ refuses to investigate ACORN and the Government continues to send them taxpayer dollars the only option we have is to turn off the spigot and on April 15th stop paying our taxes. Where are they going to put all of us? GITMO
No more waiting to release that F'n bombshell AB has stashed away. I say, bombs away!! Let god sort it out.
ACORN is Obama. SEIU is Obama. Obama investigating Obama now thats a hoot.
Extent of Fraud + Scope of Conspiracy = Racketeering
Patience grasshopper.
because acorn is funded by just about everybody workings __and investigators are connected with labor… and the leg bones connected to the head bone __and current pay and future pensions__even though those pension are already gone__acorrns labor force__under audit__has little or no real value__they hide this in the churn ratio no body looks at but me__every day they get a new day and a new way to destroy our economy__under a magnifying glass __the work force is connected to housing and mortgage __and the lick bones connected to the ass bone__and the investigator found out their pension are vested in the predatory lending and mortgages and labor__that is what my investigation has shown__and my investigation has grown
Eric Holder = Pathetic. He should have been all over this and the Political Pawn that he is, he won't! Continue to release these stories until election time and we will let the people decide.
Remember to Vote in 2010 and 2012.
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He did tell us to judge him by who his associates are. Corruption: thy name is ObaMao.
The question is where is the audit report?
There is none.
They hired non auditors. The are not accustomed to audits
They have no current financial statements
The statements they have are outside of ACORN
AcCORN is rapidly closing locations and junk is in dumpsters, storage and boxes not marked. No way to do an audit. It is all scattered and the helpe has even
They aren't going to investigate ACORN, that would be like reporting your own Dad for cheating on his taxes. They'll just ignore this and hope it goes away or try and divert everyones attention to more important national matters like trying to destroy popular conservatives like Sarah Palin. It's Chicago style politics people, "I don't see nuttin", "I don't know nuttin".
I would like a kilo of what this poster is smoking.
More, Brenda, more!
It'll be fun watching the liberal media trying to dance through the mine fields too.
What really counts is that the public is on to ACORN now. Thank you again, Andrew and Company. You can't put the toothpaste back in tube.
Corrupt politicians+election fraud+ACORN+media silence=increasing voter wrath. That's the math that these irresponsible fools haven't figured out yet.
ACORN is too important to the Democrats, specially in 2010. The MSM and the Democrats are in collusion to bury this story. They'll go after Breitbart, O'keefe, and Giles before they really put the hammer down on ACORN. The hope time will clean the air.
ACORN has been entrenched in the bureaucracy as a contractor of sorts.They have their mitts is every aspect of the federal bureaucracy. How does a community organizing "non-profit" get DOJ contracts?
MANY, MANY people I talk to are NOT depending on the 2010 elections only.. We are going to get our Country back no matter what it takes. We outnumber the Capitol Police and the National Guard made up of "AMERICAN CITIZENS" will not fire on Americans who Love thier Country . These Politicians have "UNDERESTIMATED" the average American.. When they are out of office they should be tried by Americans, Judged and prosecuted by Americans. We will be at thier private homes (Like SEIU Thugs) and will have to answer to the Americans they have "SCREWED"……..
whats so hard to figure out?, Obama dosent want it, dont you know how tyranny works
If the GOP gets the House back in 2010 I predict a whole lot of folks heading for places with weak extradition agreements.
AMAZING — Brown is investigating James, Hannah and Andrew AND NOT THE GROUPS WHO ARE CORRUPT — ACORN and SEIU.
JUST LIKE HOLDER, INVESTIGATING OUR OWN CIA and NOW MOVING THE MUSLIM TERRORISTS TO NEW YORK FOR A CIVILIAN TRIAL. There is nothing CIVIL about these terrorists. DID HOLDER ASK ANY OF THE FAMILIES OF THE 3,000 INNOCENT AMERICANS WHO WERE KILLED BY THE TERRORIST ATTACK HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THIS??? I'm sure he didn't — It's all about the LIBERALS POLITICAL AGENDA.
Why isn't anybody investigating ACORN? Because most people realize that it is an insignificant thing in the real world, a tempest in a teapot. Only petty partisan hacks think that ACORN matters, for petty political agendas.
I really fear for the safety of these folks. I am very pleased that this is continuing, but also hope they realize the risk to their lives…these pigs they're investigating follow different rules.
Indeed those in need of investigation (SEIU, ACORN, etc.) follow "different rules." Not new. Just different. "Different rules" are also followed by those who "facilitate man-caused disasters" (Napolitano's words). Unemployement. Obamacare. National Debt. Man-caused disasters are coming … I wonder if ACORN or SEIU will be tried in D.C.
[...] lawyer Chris Berg wonders why there is no serious investigation of ACORN happening at the federal level. [...]
Comon Chris…did you really expect Holder and Brown to investigate these scum?
Stop paying your taxes on the 15th?
If you are like most Americans, you have been paying taxes with every paycheck. April 15th is simply when the books get balanced.
If you're truly determined to avoid paying taxes then the only option is for you to quit your job. If you don't make any money, you won't have to pay any taxes. Of course you may find yourself living under a bridge with schizophrenic heroin addicts.
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Now it's Holder and Brown who need to be investigated along with all the others protecting ? ? ? could it be their reputations! ?
THEY ARE NOT INVESTING ACORNS CORRUPTION BECAUSE THEY ARE A PART OF THE CORRUPTION. WHY WOULD THEY START AN INVESTIGATION THAT WOULD LEAD RIGHT TO BARACK OBAMA'S DOOR?
THEY MAY ALL BE CRIMINALS BUT THEY ARE NOT RETARDED CRIMINALS.
I've got your petty political agenda. Let's move one of the worst terrorists in the world to NYC for a "civil" trial to give this guy a stage for liberal attorneys and terror organizations to slam America even more. All in the name of putting our own CIA and the Bush Administration on trial. Obama and Holder don't care about the 911 victims and thier families, he just wants to go after our own people. If that is not blatent political partisan warfare then what is???
R.EPEAT AFTER ME….
HEY, HEY, HO, HO BARACK OBAMA HAS GOT TO GO!!!
HO, HO, HEY, HEY LET'S IMPEACH HIM FROM OFFICE WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY!!!!
REPEAT AFTER ME….
HEY, HEY, HO, HO BARACK OBAMA HAS GOT TO GO!!!
HO, HO, HEY, HEY LET'S IMPEACH HIM FROM OFFICE WITHOUT FURTHER DELAY!!!!
Holder, Obama, and the horrible Dems might be able to stonewall the ACORN investigation for now but they know that 2010 is coming. When the Republicans increase their numbers by huge amounts then the current administration won’t be able to do as much. The Senate will launch investigations left and right and I’ll bet dollars to donuts that what they will find will make Watergate look like tiddlywinks. We need to keep the pressure on them to investigate ACORN and not let up till our reps in government can take it over next November. I’m that certain of huge landslide victories by the right in the 2010 elections.
petty acorn is connected to everything economic long into the future
so would i
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sarah palin is popular for the wrong reasons__charles manson is popular too__a whole lot of people must have voted for him too or he would never be in the public eye still__all things measued by popularity__he would be our president actually__
You're comparing Sarah Palin to Charles Manson?? Really?? Please explain.
i am not comparing them on the basis of quality
but on the basis of substance-less popularity
oh yes there is
microsoft live allowed it's seizure and because the partys with the data of credibility are not protected
they could seize property and all connection to it
without reporting
then use the intelligence community to hide everything in parity
OK, I don't agree with that but thanks for explaining.
yes
and guess who makes up the rules they follow
legislators approved by congress
they hide reality by introducing bills in the nature of a substitute
thus camouflaging the underlying information
offer the dumb stage of a parity to be created for a dumb-ed down public
informed by a broken education that taught dumb to teachers now they teach dumb without really knowing
they are teach all of the wrong applications to values in just about every subject and on every level these days
dummy down is all that pays
FYI, John Conyers is the same fool who held mock hearing in the House basement against George W. Bush every chance he could. Blaming the "powers that be" for sitting on his hands is just Conyer's corruption showing.
Yeah right, let the NRA, or a Christian non-profit submit mickey mouse's name on a voter registration form and let's see how petty it gets.
because it is our money you A-Hole!!!!!!
Why? Because they've got the original burth certificate!
Geo
maybe obama should just say those investigating Acorn acted stupidly, and have a beer summit and just walk away happy (seriously, can you believe this moronic clown got elected?)
The only investigation acorn had was one to see what documents to throw out.
In the end, O'Keefe, Giles and Breitbart will have criminal records and be broke…ACORN will receive record levels of funding….and Obama will be re-elected as ACORN and SEIU workers beat-down sissy whites attempting to vote.
It's a black man's country now.
Get used to it..
When crime is out in the open and no one can do anything about it, it's gotten pretty bad. If it happens at a level like this, you better pray to God that the state and community you live in has it together.
I love your satire….
And the ACORN boondoggle just rolls on and on. They are advocating that Glenn Beck be removed from the airways, is this what ACORN is supposed to be organizing? This is just a small example of what you can expect more of
from an Obama administration. Next comes the 1,000,000 man army to keep the populace in control. Underneath that friendly calm kool exterior beats a savage heart, by the time it’s recognized you’re screwed. He is no the sweet
charming erudite Obama you think he is. It really doesn’t matter there’s not much any of us can do about it now, you elected him now live with it.
Nidal, Nidal, Nidal. A bunch of ol white men are using obama like a puppet. You and all the rest of us have no country. Get used to it and quit letting them use you for the fool you are.
I love your ignorance. when the economy blows up and its anarchy in the streets I think you will find out who really is in charge. You must have been uneducated in the public school system.
Scott Harshbarger was useless in Mass. He will find nothing not because of the big D after his name, but because he is inept.
This party is over! One of the great things about America is there''s a major election every two years. Obama and his followers shot their wads way too soon.
Obama has infested the DoJ with his roaches so of course they won't investigate. The "independent investigation" is made up of people just as corrupt as ACORN, one of them was even an attorney for them at one point. A bunch of left-wing radical nut-job anti-American marxists. They are hell-bent on destroying America. Does anyone really believe Obama would let anyone investigate one of the very groups that got him elected? Heck no! Same with SEIU.
But thank God for citizen journalists, hehe.
ACORN needs plenty of taxpayers money to file lawsuits all over the place. Nice to see tax dollars go to such a needy cause.
I read these posts and I see that Obama is suceeding in his plan. He and his crew know that "WE", as a "GREAT AMERICAN NATION", are strong. But, if he can start turmoil from within, "that" is what will destroy us and weaken us. Then the enemy, Obama, will be able to pass all his laws. We'll be so busy fighting amongst ourselves to notice. I say we all join together, do what ever it takes to stop the stripping of freedom from this "WONDERFUL FREE AMERICAN NATION"! Has anyone noticed but me how many times he has shown disdain for America? And no Obama, do not keep trying to reduce us to a community, WE ARE A GREAT AMERICAN NATION and don't you forget it!
Corrupt government = fraud in every federal office. Who can't do the math on that? If there's someone in a federal office that doesn't want to play the game, they are done away with; as simple as that. I knew about federal fraud when I was about 9 years old. There's no cure a corrupt government!
The government takes everything at face value, if they did take it for what it is, there would be no room in federal prison for the people that would be named. It's the domino affect, if one goes down, they all fall. Who's gonna tell us what to do if all the government politicians are in jail? Our government is no different from any other corrupt government…we just keep fooling ourselves, we should be able to fire the bums, just like anyone else gets fired. We have too many investigations that go nowhere, when there is an investigation, someone is always in the wings to do the coverup, money always talks. There's big money in politics..they are all very well paid dumb bells…
Nice post. Didn’t know that about federal grants.
investigate Blackwater, Kellog Brown Root, Dick Cheney and Pfizer if you are really concerned about illegal activity and rip-offs of taxpayers' money. Otherwise you art just part of the racist republicrat attack on an organization that helps poor people organize to fight against racist republicrat attacks on their rights. ACORN will outlive Tush Limpbow and Glenn Dreck and Blunder Deschamp.
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