ACORN and Organized Crime

"Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?"

That is the question being asked by minority staff on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. The full report can be found over at The American Spectator but here is an excerpt:

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systemic fraud. Both structurally and operationally, ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate. (more)

$53 million dollars has gone to this group since 1994 and Obama is trying to up that amount to $8.5 billion. Just one of the many goodies slid under the mat in the stimulus bill that was shoved down our throats.

But wait, there's more. according to Judicial Watch:

The corrupt taxpayer-funded leftist group best known for its fraudulent voter registration drives has filed a federal lawsuit to kill a Pennsylvania law banning its shady quota system for registering new voters.

Already facing criminal charges in various states, the renowned Chicago-based “community group” (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now—ACORN) with close ties to President Barack Obama is trying to rewrite a Pennsylvania law to accommodate its crooked method of recruiting new voters in low-income, “underserved” communities.

The lawsuit is a response to criminal charges against five ACORN workers who collected and submitted bogus voter registration forms in the Pittsburgh area during the 2008 presidential election. Prosecutors in Allegheny County charged them with forging cards, falsifying dates of birth and Social Security numbers to fulfill ACORN’s daily quota of 20 new forms. (more)