NY prosecutor clears U.S. liberal group ACORN workers
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Employees at the U.S. liberal grass-roots group ACORN who were caught on video giving tax advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, New York prosecutors said on Monday.
The organization has been reeling since a YouTube video was disseminated last September showing ACORN workers giving advice on how to flout the law to two conservative activists who posed as a pimp and a prostitute.
The U.S. Congress then voted by wide margins to prohibit the federal government from funding ACORN, and the U.S. Census Bureau ended its partnership with the group.
Following a five-month investigation, no criminal wrongdoing was uncovered, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said in a statement.
The employees involved in the incident at the group's Brooklyn office were fired and the New York chapter left ACORN and set up a new organization, ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan said.
Republicans have long accused the group of fraud in registering voters and improperly mixing political and nonpolitical activities. ACORN has denied the allegations.
ACORN plays a significant political role in low-income neighborhoods and in 2008 signed up 1.3 million people to register to vote in areas where Democrats poll well.
The group promotes affordable housing and fights home foreclosures as well as giving tax advice.
(Reporting by Edith Honan; Editing by Michelle Nichols and Peter Cooney)
As if the truth really matters. The ultimate goal of all this bullfuckery has been achieved.
The U.S. Congress then voted by wide margins to prohibit the federal government from funding ACORN, and the U.S. Census Bureau ended its partnership with the group.
I'm not the type of guy to believe in conspiracy theories, but it's amazing how well this worked out for Republican leadership. They're not going to even suffer a backlash for making blatantly false accusations. Seriously, couldn't the accused employees sue for like, slander or libel or something?
"If one needed proof that a guitar was more than wood and string, that a song was more than notes and words, and that a man could be more than a name and a few faded pictures, then Robert Johnson’s recordings were all one could ask for."
Somehow, though, somehow, James O'Keefe (the clown behind this "sting") is caught screwing around with telephones on Federal Property (er, that is, committing a felony), yet he's being railroaded.
Only the retarded thought that ACORN was doing some serious wrongdoing. It was an obvious beat up from the start.
"This statement, in its utterly clueless hubristic stupidity, cannot be improved upon. I merely quote it in admiration of its perfection." - Garibaldi
"Problem is, while the Germans have had many mea culpas and quite painfully dealt with their history, the South is still hellbent on painting themselves as the real victims. It gives them a special place in the history of assholes" - Covenant
"Over three million died fighting for the emperor, but when the war was over he pretended it was not his responsibility. What kind of man does that?'' - Saburo Sakai
"It was a liberal NY prosecutor Obama probably ordered him to let them off"
"Acorn paid the prosecutor off"
"Lies of the liberal media"
"You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know.
I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do." - David Cronenberg
"Doesn't Rush Limbaugh remind you of one of those gay guys that like to lie in a tub while other guys pee on him?" - Bill Hicks
hunter5 wrote:The problem is many on the right belive bad things about acorn because they have a history of doing bad things from the times
Wow.
A failed lawsuit from 15 years ago.
A case of embezzlement of funds by an employee from ACORN (How this is an indictment against ACORN, I have no idea).
A case of voter fraud from 12 years ago.
That's supposed to be a "history" of doing bad things? By this measure the entire Republican party should be outlawed.
"This statement, in its utterly clueless hubristic stupidity, cannot be improved upon. I merely quote it in admiration of its perfection." - Garibaldi
"Problem is, while the Germans have had many mea culpas and quite painfully dealt with their history, the South is still hellbent on painting themselves as the real victims. It gives them a special place in the history of assholes" - Covenant
"Over three million died fighting for the emperor, but when the war was over he pretended it was not his responsibility. What kind of man does that?'' - Saburo Sakai
hunter5 wrote:The problem is many on the right belive bad things about acorn because they have a history of doing bad things from the times
Wow.
A failed lawsuit from 15 years ago.
A case of embezzlement of funds by an employee from ACORN (How this is an indictment against ACORN, I have no idea).
A case of voter fraud from 12 years ago.
That's supposed to be a "history" of doing bad things? By this measure the entire Republican party should be outlawed.
I can get behind that.
It's the old Republican double-standard at play, the same reason that Faux Noise has a tendancy to transpose the "R" and "D" keys on their keyboards whenever a Republican steps out of lockstep with the party line and says something stupid. Honestly I'm kind of surprised they didn't put "Democrat" in front of Dubyah's name when he came out in support of immigration.
Basically, if a Republican did it, it was an individual, let's just toss him under the boss. If a democrat did it, you never let it go.
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Way to overwork a metaphor Shadow. I feel really creeped out now.
I am an artist, metaphorical mind-fucks are my medium.
