NY Post: ACORN Still Stands to Make Millions
by PubliusFrom the New York Post:
Despite a string of scandals that recently led Congress to cut off its federal funding, ACORN still stands to make millions of dollars off its support for Brooklyn’s controversial Atlantic Yards project, The Post has learned.
The left-wing organization — longtime boosters of the $4.9 billion NBA arena and residential- and office-tower project — says it expects to be tapped to market and help decide who gets to live in the coveted, but long-delayed, 2,250 affordable-housing units planned for Atlantic Yards.
This, after Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner helped bail ACORN out of financial trouble last September with a $1 million loan and a $500,000 grant, according to memos.
Although contracts are not yet been signed, Ismene Speliotis, executive director of ACORN’s New York chapter, told The Post her organization “expects to play a role in the marketing and lease-up” of the Prospect Heights project’s affordable housing to be underwritten by the city.
The work would include community outreach and screening people to determine qualified applicants, and then scandal-scarred ACORN would be entrusted with overseeing a lottery system to choose who gets the housing. Ratner’s firm is expected to manage the housing.
When asked how much ACORN might make off Atlantic Yards, the city’s Department of Housing Preservation & Development referred questions to Ratner, who said via a spokesman it wasn’t the “appropriate time” to make such “decisions.”
But Anita MonCrief, a former ACORN official-turned-whistleblower, estimates the anticipated deal could bring the group $5 million to $10 million annually over multiple years from the public and private sector based on other housing deals ACORN has nationwide.
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The New York Post reports the story and I'm sure the New York Times is glad to hear about it.
The taxpayer-funded "progressive" propaganda-fest has to stop!
The fact that taxes are confiscated to fund this garbage is enough to help the anti-Obama express take things up another gear, I hope.
Truth trumps propaganda: “SPRECHEN SIE PROPAGANDA? WHY THE LEFT LOVES LIES” at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
It can do so again, so long as we remain vigilant.
"screening"
So they shakedown developers to have a part of low rent housing..I suspect they won't get success any longer.
Too many tax leins lurking.
Why can't we use ACORN's own tactics against them? If the government won't shut them down, we can picket in front of offices, just as they picketed in front of bank officers homes.
SOCIALISTS! We are coming. You will not be allowed to take over.
heehee i wonder why serv. site pulled ACORN lololol seems like someone posting jobs to impeach obama.
The Mayor of NYC and the Governor of NY should make sure ACORN plays no part in this housing project. I can see it now…oh you posted against ACORN or against the anointed one….you do not qualify.
Again, calling this community organizing is a joke. It is crime organizing: organized crime. Investigate the bastards.
RICO.
Public housing always has the same ending … yuck.
When are the poor minorities going to realize they are the useful idiots of organizations like ACORN?
like the shape shifting reptilians they are…
Try to grab it, identify it, and hold on to it. it will morph from ACORN or SEIU into one of a hundred different entities.
THAT's a shape shifter for ya.
So enjoy the small victories- as is this one. But remember, these people think of nothing else- 24/7- and will just regroup and start again. Eternal vigilance is the key.
And we are starting to think the US citizenry is making a small- but still noticeable- difference in the dialectic.
Nice job. Keep it up…
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Great, another 2250 homeowner’ we will have the pleasure of bailing out!
If the government wont stop ACORN, then the people will have to.
I like the picketing idea
Great, another 2250 homeowner' we will have the pleasure of bailing out!
If a Independent Special Prosecutor isn't appointed to investigate ACORN, they will get away with murder. Holder is hopelessly in the tank for Obama. It's disgusting
Although contracts are not yet been signed…
Heh. Okay, let us see if they are arrogant enough to go ahead with it now that it is out in the open.
Somewhere there are lawyers and PR pros racking up some pretty good bills arguing why their clients should now stay far away from the cesspool…
Housing for Hookers financed by the taxpayers. Fits right in with ACORN.
Hud Investigator
09/21/2009 9:20 PM
If you have information about any illegal doings or improprieties at ACORN or by members of ACORN please contact the HUD Inspector General at MCOLLAZO@HUDOIG.GOV. All information provided is confidential.
before they magically 'disappear'…
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We won't be bailing them out. We no longer have a right to what we have earned therefore our money has been ceased by the government before we even have a chance to claim it thus no bailout; just a redistribution of my, I mean, the governments money. I forgot to mention that tonight I will be having Pork and Kool-Aid for dinner while watching the Capitalist Be Shamed (CBS), No Business for Capitalism (NBC), ABolish Capatalism (ABC), Capitalism Not Needed (CNN), and the More Socialism Needed – Barrack for Change (MSNBC) channels to get all the latest and greatest Non-News. Shame on BreitBart, Beck, BOR, and Hannity for spreading lies, lies, lies.
I would like to see a listing of all the positive results so far since the investigation of ACORN and NEA began. Example: 1) list of sites where ACORN links have been removed. 2) investigations that have begun. 3) etc. Anybody have the patience and skills to compile this list and post it here?
Here are more people making noise, maybe you can join them.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pag...
And I hope his job is more secure than Gerald Walpin's.
News Flash from Fox News: ACORN Announced they are no longer Associated with ACORN: Will reform into CORNNUTS
Center of Redistribution Needed Now to Undermine Tea-Baggers and Statutes
ROFLAO
Phooey. I guess this explains why Ms. Lewis (Acorn) seemed so confident on the interview with Chris Wallace. I suspected that she was confident that there would be no repercussions from the government against Acorn.
I also read that the recent bills passed de-funding Acorn won't make it past committee. Looks like Acorn will keep the 8.5 billion ear-marked for them.
I’m not surprised that ACORN will still make money..
After all, with an army of pimps, prostitutes, and their underage counterparts….i mean……..can you imagine? They’ll be raking in the dough by the millions!
My bad, that was from FAUX News. This is what Fox News provided about CORNNUTS:
CORNNUTS (Communities of Racists Nut-jobs Not Uniting Together to Sustain others) has been caught on video brandishing racist signs, American Flags, and Astroturf blazers on the steps of the US Capitol. Their actions have gained the interest of the AG, the Department of In-Justice and lawbreakers alike and a hearing will convene this evening to impose higher excise tax, which is not a tax, on these individual Glenn Beck puppets and a special investigation will be launched by the DOIJ tomorrow. Furthermore, from a source within the DOIJ (who remains anonymous because he is talking to us without permission and is breaking the law as he speaks) confirms that CORNNUTS was just branded a Hate Group and their ring leader, Glenn Beck, will be added to the 10 Most Wanted list.
picket? really? They are far more aggresive than that. If we go, we had better go hard.
ACORN DOESN'T MAKE MONEY. THEY ARE LIKE THE REST OF THE "RIGHT TO ENTITLEMENTS", NON WORKING LOW LIFES WHO HAVE ABUSED THE "GOVERNMENT RUN WELFARE IS A RIGHT" SYSTEM FOR GENERATIONS; TAKE TAKE TAKE (WITH A BLUE PLACARD HANGING IN THE WINDOW OF MY CADILLAC CTS WITH TWENTY-FOUR INCH RIMS, BLING ALL UP AND DOWN MY BROKE ASS, UNABLE TO WORK, BODY UNLESS WE ARE AT THE CLUB PICKING UP HO'S)
Does anyone know if the Ratner in this story is related to the scandal-plagued Car Czar Ratner?
Congress becoming more and more corrupt by the day. They knew that even if they bankrupt the country, they can bribe and corrupted the public to keep their permanent sit.
I think ACORN is awesome.
They do a bang-up job getting poor people into the crappiest housing, they job the public sector for millions and do their best imitation of Jesse Jackson when they arm-twist/extort private firms into forking over small fortunes.
That's like the hat trick of pious liberal exploitation.
The workers of ACORN and the "real" Democratic party are being played the "fool". Why would the Democrats want you to think? They have no control if you actually get up and ask questions. They keep giving you this and that to keep you down. They make you think they want to do good but what has it got you? Still poor? Loose your home they told you "go for it" – they don't care just like Rev AL…. He would not make a dime if you stayed in school, not had kids at 13 and worked for a living…
Just the facts my brotha !!!
the party my father loved is gone – (His own words)
I'll ask a question nobody has yet to ask, CEO and Chief Organizer Bertha Lewis has exactly what qualifications?
Where has she gone to school? What are her credentials? What are her degrees?
Or is she simple a street thug, who has risen to the top by killing off her competition?
When they stop listening to the bastards who keep them in poverty by telling them that they NEED the government's help.
This is making me sick…
Looks like most of her "qualifications" are that she's a community organizer but here is a decent profile.
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Bertha_Lewis
I'm all for affordable housing, but if this turns out to be a disaster like so many 'public housing' initiatives, it will reflect very poorly on ACORN.
Is there any place where Section 8 housing hasn't corrupted good neighborhoods?
So essentially… they fed from the taxpayer trough, which has been used to set up this public housing unit. Sounds like they're going to use this housing complex as a fence. Instead of government giving money directly to ACORN, they're going to get it from the inhabitants which are subsidized by the government.
Instead of… Government > Acorn…
It will be… Government > low-income inhabitants (tenants) > ACORN (landlord).
Either way, ACORN gets their fill.
For the first time in a long time, the house of cards is beginning to fall on crooks like these. I just hope the people keep on this so that this corruption comes to an end.
I think the socialists saw the planets align when they got both houses in congress and the White House, along with their left wing media groups. They are going to try their best, but this country is made up of free men and women, and Americans are not going to let their country go down the path these clowns are trying to take us. The only thing they have succeeded in is uniting the people of this great country so that we take back the nation that we love.
For the first time in a long time, the house of cards is beginning to fall on crooks like these. I just hope the people keep on this so that this corruption comes to an end.
Go ahead and keep spewing out nonsense like this with the rest of your far left homeboys. The more you do, the more the American people will see right through it. In the mean time, you better catch up with what they are saying on MSLSD and go watch a few more doctored videos of supposed protesters carrying guns to these events.
This web site is a good read on SEIU. Plus other stuff.
<a href="http://chicagobluesgirl.com/2009/03/27/obamas-des…” target=”_blank”>http://chicagobluesgirl.com/2009/03/27/obamas-des…
Is there any way to get the point across to leftist liberals that giving the non-producing welfare leaches SOMETHING FOR NOTHING only results in their continuing downward slide to further impoverishment ? Stupid me ! Forgot it was about garnering votes to get MORE WELFARE from hard working Americans.
Is 2010 here yet ? Are we "there" yet ?
ACORN Community High School
561 Grand Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238
Principal, Andrea Lewis — Any relation to Bertha Lewis of ACORN??
ACORN Community High School was founded in 1996 as a partnership between the New York City Board of Educ. and ACORN (The Assoc. of Comm. Organizations for Reform Now)
We can't even get those questions answered about Obama, except the last one, for which the answer is a resounding yes.
I'm all for affordable housing too. To do that you free American business and industry to create productive jobs, allow people to keep what they earn, and presto, people can afford housing.
I think recent events all point to one conclusion: FORFEIT .
What is a taxpayer funded group like ACORN doing making any decision on who gets into the low income housing? Why are not state or city housing employees doing this? Isn't that what they are paid to do via our taxes? Or Rattner should be hiring a private firm with some brains to do it. People need jobs and they are spending our money on a crooked group of people to do work. Rudy went after the Italian mob for nothing, the leftist mob just swooped in. And no one is investigating them for real.
Affordable housing!! Is that just a fancy name for section 8? If so, how does anyone expect to make any money off of this? What are they going to do, build an NBA arena surrounded by slums? Oh that sounds like a venue I would be excited about! Isn't JAY-Z in on this as well? This is doomed from the start.
[...] NY Post: ACORN Still Stands To Make Millions [...]
Amen!
What an ass. You actually think I am being serious. This was a heckle for the stupid asses of the left who make a big shiza out of every little non-news event and fail to bring to light all the real, important news that has legs and will walk.
[...] all this going on, ACORN still stands to make millions, as reported in part by Big Government [...]
ACORN is the Dems/Radical Left's version of 'too big to fail'. With its 180+ affiliates in for profit and non-profit incarnations, as well leftie members acting as Presidential Advisors (Czars), covert and overt investigations must continue! Onward and upward!
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