FOX: Congressional Committee Accuses ACORN of Massive Fraud, Racketeering
Glenn Beck yesterday unveiled a new congressional report accusing the far-left activist group ACORN of massive fraud, money laundering, and racketeering directed from the highest levels of ACORN management.
The report (PDF available here) –Â called “Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?” — was released by Republican staffers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
The ranking member on the committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), told Beck that with ACORN, “it’s always the mice that are getting prosecuted; it never rises to the top.”
But what investigators found “was a pattern of loose financial accounting and no firewalls,” Issa said. “It’s very clear that that’s for a reason…you cannot be giving government money…to ACORN and its affiliates without knowingly delivering it to partisan operatives who in fact engage in campaigning.”
Beck noted that President Obama was a community organizer. “He is organizing our government in the same way,” Beck said. “We can’t track anything. You’ve seen that healthcare bill. It is so complex. Money’s everywhere. It’s a shell game. And everybody’s getting rich, and the people who helped him devise this is the SEIU…a union that is tied directly into ACORN. We are building a new exoskeleton and it’s feasting on our republic.” said Beck.
Issa said he “absolutely” agreed. “Our study was specifically done so that the facts speak for themselves so that very clearly we could make the case that ACORN cannot be receiving government money and should lose its tax-free status,” he said.
Congressional Democrats have shown little interest in probing ACORN. After initially expressing interest in an investigation, House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers (D-Michigan), a longtime ACORN ally, backed off, saying “the powers that be decided against it.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) tried yet again to block ACORN from receiving taxpayer funds. On Thursday he offered an amendment to a spending bill that would have prohibited any taxpayer money in the bill from going to ACORN.
According to a King press release, “Liberals on the House Rules Committee ruled King’s amendment out of order.” This is the seventh amendment that lawmakers sympathetic to ACORN have blocked King from offering.
“John Conyers is right: the ‘powers that be’ in this Congress will do all they can to protect ACORN,†King said.
I encounter this group ptior to the election last fall. I had moved and had to re register and when I told them I was a Rep. they weren’t going to register me. stating that they only registered Democrats and I wouldn’t go away & told the guy that is llegal in this state! Yhe guy was actuallty arguing politics with me and bad mouthing then President George W. Now this group is going to help with the census?? Don’t send them to our door. This is the most blatant case of partisan politics O have heard of. Are we living in Iran? Ruth
This is the organization that received $15 million dollars (from funds donated for poverty)from the Catholic Bishops at the national level. They claim to not have known, even though questions of irregulatities have been public for years. Yes, I am a Catholic, and resent my Church being involved in politics -particularly when it heavily supports a pro-infanticide president’s election.
ACORN is the American equivilent of the Iranian Basij, the Nazi brownshirts, or Mussolini’s blackshirts. The purposes of each organization are the same. Our federal government backs, supports, and aids a criminal organization for purposes of political control. The American federal government, totally in the hands of Democrats, is becoming totalitarian. Expect an American equivilent of the bombing of the Bundestag.
If the corrupt Democratic congressional and Obama regime won’t do anything why can’t the people file a massive class-action lawsuit ? I guarantee you if the socialists we’re feeling wronged the ACLU would be filing yesterday. When can American citizens start calling the shots again stop this fraudulent and dangerous government ? Does the law or the constitution even matter anymore..Gee, isn’t it nice to have ACORN in charge of the census ?
Time to send out the Esquadroes le Morte after ACORN!
No need to get crazy folks, after all this is just a “report” by some Congressional staffers cobbling together all the nonsense the GOP has been screaming about ACORN for over a year.
If there is all this criminality, then is should be easy to prosecute…or at least start an investigation.
Why doesn’t Congress investigate the Roswell crash? I’ll draw up a crazy report and cry like a baby when no one pays attention.
More red meat for the crazies!!!