Mighty Hoax from Little ACORN Grows

The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report last month on the results of an investigation of Obama's brown shirts the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). But of course you knew that...since it's been front page news on every major news publication in the country....or not. What is it with these reports? Congress finally does something right and uncovers at least a tiny sliver of the corruption that infests our government, and you never hear about the reports. Even Fox and the radio talkers have ignored it, as far as I know.

From the Executive Summary:

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.

Emerging accounts of widespread deceit and corruption raise the need for a criminal investigation of ACORN. By intentionally blurring the legal distinctions between 361 tax-exempt and non-exempt entities, ACORN diverts taxpayer and tax-exempt monies into partisan political activities. Since 1994, more than $53 million in federal funds have been pumped into ACORN, and under the Obama administration, ACORN stands to receive a whopping $8.5 billion in available stimulus funds.

Operationally, ACORN is a shell game played in 120 cities, 43 states and the District of Columbia through a complex structure designed to conceal illegal activities, to use taxpayer and tax-exempt dollars for partisan political purposes, and to distract investigators. Structurally, ACORN is a chess game in which senior management is shielded from accountability by multiple layers of volunteers and compensated employees who serve as pawns to take the fall for every bad act.

The report that follows presents evidence obtained from former ACORN insiders that completes the picture of a criminal enterprise.

It's 88 pages of some of the best news you'll read this year. Check out the whole report, in pdf format, here.