Preliminary report clears ACORN on funds

[cal04]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/14/congress.acorn/index.html

A preliminary probe of now-disbanded community organizing group ACORN has found no sign the group or related organizations mishandled the $40 million in federal money they received in recent years, congressional investigators reported Monday.

A review of grants by nine federal agencies, mostly for housing issues, found problems with only one award -- and in that case, the separately administered ACORN Housing Corporation quickly provided a missing piece of documentation, the Government Accountability Office reported.

Nearly two dozen members of Congress requested an investigation after a series of complaints against ACORN and its affilliates, including an accounting scandal, several cases of voter registration fraud and the release of edited videotapes made by conservative activists that appeared to implicate ACORN workers in facilitating prostitution.

Republicans in Congress have blasted the organization as corrupt and led an effort to strip the group of federal funding in 2009, and the negative publicity forced it to disband earlier this year.

[laughingliberal]

1. Just as I would have expected.

a little late but glad the truth won.

[alstephenson]

2. Too bad they're no longer in business.

[90-percent]

3. Like the Puritan witch test

tie the witch up and dump her in the water. If she floats up, she's a witch, if she sinks (and drowns), she wasn't a witch.

This is the ultimate win the battle but loose the war. ACORN is no longer with us. James O'Keefe and all of Fox news and viewership and "conservatives" won. They got ACORN to disappear even though their accusations and insinuations were without merit.

Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. The liars won, the honest people lost.

Kind of like everything else in America these days, including pitchers that pitch perfect games!

-90% jimmy

[one_voice]

4. A little too late...

A good organization. Repugs should be ashamed of themselves, but they have no shame. They were scared of ACORN, so they lied, and cheated till they got rid of them. I hate Repugs!!!

[Rex]

5. Repukes mess up a perfect day just by thinking.

If they can't fuck it, blow it up, steal it or bully something into submission then they just lie and lie until it has died from character assassination.

I hate Republicans.

[cal04]

6. Congressional report clears ACORN of wrongdoing — after group forced to disband

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0615/preliminary-report-clears-acorn/

When a duo of right-wing provocateurs posing as a pimp and prostitute released selectively-edited videos trying to impugn the community activist group ACORN, both Democrats and Republicans condemned the organization.

Congress then voted to cut off federal funding for the group (a decision that was later ruled unconstitutional). Following negative press and Congress' vote, ACORN effectively disbanded Apr. 1 and reorganized under new names.

But a just-issued report by the Government Accountability Office that reviewed ACORN's federal funding at the behest of Congress found little grist for the mill for politicians or right-wing bloggers looking to bash the now-defunct advocacy group for the poor.

The 38-page report surveyed over 31 federal agencies, probing how ACORN used federal funds and whether adequate controls on spending existed.


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