Posted on 06/12/2009 4:07:40 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Good idea. This crap is getting completely out of control!! It appears that Obama and his goons are just trying to stir up outrage at this point. It is so blatant and in your face. I really fear for our country.
WEB SITE------http://acornhousing.org/TEXT/wwa.php
MISSION STATEMENT-----Who We Are (housing)
National non-profit ACORN Housing has been providing free housing counseling to low and moderate income homebuyers since 1987. We have opened HUD-certified, Fannie Mae-approved housing counseling offices across the US, helping over 50,000 families to achieve homeownership.
ACORN Housing provides one-on-one mortgage loan counseling, first-time homebuyer classes, and helps clients obtain affordable mortgages through our unique lending partnerships. We look at your savings and credit history to see if you qualify for a mortgage. We can help you with credit problems and to create a downpayment savings plan. When you qualify, we can help arrange a mortgage with lower interest rates, lower down payments and lower settlement costs than what banks usually offer.
ACORN HOUSING CORPORATION----2008 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AHC is governed by a diverse five-member Board of Directors whose professions range from a self-employed consultant who retired after 23 years working with 3M as a Senior Analyst to a long time activist and resident of East New York. The Board is best described as a dedicated and diverse group of individuals that is committed to seeing that AHC achieves its mission. Brief bios on the AHC Board of Directors are presented below.
Mr. Alton Bennett, President: Mr. Bennett is a self-employed consultant having retired after working 23 years with 3M as a Senior Analyst. He is a graduate of Augsburg College in Minneapolis, MN with degrees in Economics and Business Administration. He also holds an Associates Degree from Waldorf College in Forest City, IA with emphasis on Math and Economics. Mr. Bennett is a former Association Board Delegate of ACORN representing Minnesota and the Former Treasurer of the National ACORN Board. He served for two years as a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines Affordable Housing Advisory Council. He has been on teams that negotiated lending agreements with several lenders and tax preparation companies. He is a resident of Minnesota since 1974 and raised his family in Minneapolis and more recently Woodbury, MN.
Ms. Dorothy Amadi, Vice President: Ms. Amadi, a long time activist and resident of East New York Brooklyn, NY, has been a critical player in the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing in very poor New York neighborhoods.She has been the President of the Mutual Housing Association of New York (MHANY) since 1995. MHANY owns over 150 properties and over 500 units of affordable housing throughout Brooklyn.
Ms. Gwen Adams: Ms. Adams, a longtime resident of New Orleans Lower 9th Ward lost her home to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Her many efforts include the ongoing community rebuilding process of her hometown.
Mr. Lewis Jenkins: Mr. Jenkins is a retired refinery worker from JT Thorpe Corporation. He was a former active Local 18 Union member. Mr. Jenkins was also a carpenter laborer working on the construction of Bush Intercontinental Airport. Mr. Jenkins is a native of Houston living in Acres Homes for over 30 years.
Mr. Guilermo Loaiza: Mr. Loaiza is a Mortgage Officer with J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. He has been in the mortgage industry for 10 years. He is the president of the Arizona ACORN Housing Corporation, and member of ACORN. He attended Phoenix College. He has been a resident of the South Mountain Village community for over a decade where he lives with his family. Prior to moving to Phoenix, Mr. Loaiza lived in New York City.--SNIP--
Samuel Adams is rolling in his grave wondering where our balls are.
Back at the Capitol, more than 150 supporters from two groups closely aligned with Democrats chanted in the Senate lobby, thrusting signs that said: "Senate Not for Sale" and "Voters not Donors." They referred to the involvement of billionaire B. Thomas Golisano, who has long sought to reform Albany politics and who helped broker the coalition deal.Gee, I wonder why the AssPress didn't give us the names of the two groups?
As part of the Tax Exempt Compensation Enforcement Project, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to examine non-profit organizations (NPO), to learn more about the practices nonprofits follow as they fill out Form 990, the main public disclosure documents for charities and foundations, and whether accounting fraud and tax evasion is taking place, and whether the compensation of specific individuals is excessive, and whether instances of questionable compensation practices may evade IRS and banking and SEC laws.
The IRS will examine NPO insider transactions, such as (1) loans, the (2) sale, (3) exchange or (4) leasing of property to non-profit officers and others. In particular, the IRS will look to see how organizations report (5) "excess benefit transactions" on Form 990, and (6) executive pay.
News agencies reported that some 2,000 charities will be reviewed under a new IRS enforcement effort to determine whether NPO are abusing their tax-exempt status. "We are concerned that some charities and private foundations are abusing their tax-exempt status by paying exorbitant compensation to their officers and others," said IRS Commissioner Mark Everson.
The IRS has received complaints that 501C’s are being used to run just about every kind of off-the-books accounting fraud. In one case, the president of a non-profit organization was embezzling donations and was engaging in accounting fraud by having the NPO pay his entire apartment lease which was fraudulently booked on non-profit documents as a "business office." When the incident was reported to the IRS, they agreed that documentation to prove the fraud existed, but that the IRS had the staff to investigate non-profit fraud solely in amounts totaling $100,000 or more.
Concerns have also been raised that the IRS has been stymied in its efforts to penalize falsified tax documents and official financial instruments to cover-up theft, and the failure of individuals to report stolen money as income.
Nonprofits, charities, municipal authorities, trusts, foundations, and unions, have the potential and may, in fact, be major money laundering conduits. They wrap themselves in all sorts of high-sounding causes while engaging in activities that are fraudulent and benefit insiders at the expense of law-abiding Americans.
Legal fees, a line item in most non-profit accounting reports, are well-used money laundering schemes that evade US taxes and use fraudulent accounting techniques to violate US banking and SEC laws.
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ACORN is a tax-exempt non-profit. The SEC needs to investigate financial improprieties and operations subsidized by the government to determine:
(1) whether ACORN is a conduit to launder monies to pay individuals for questionable activities that violate the civil rights of American citizens;
(2) whether officers of publicly-held companies are using ACORN to launder money and are booking donations to ACORN as business expenses in order to evade US taxes, and avoid banking and SEC laws;
(3) whether ACORN evades FEC laws by illegally transferring NPO donations to campaign accounts.
(4) Tampering With a Record or Otherwise Impeding an Official Proceeding makes it a federal crime for any person to corruptly alter, destroy, mutilate, or conceal any document with the intent to impair the object's integrity or availability for use in an official proceeding or to otherwise obstruct, influence or impede any official proceeding. Individuals involved in such acts are liable for up to 20 years in prison and a fine.
ACTIONABLE OFFENSES MIGHT INCLUDE:
(1) Colluding to file false documents;
(2) Not reporting crimes against the state (aiding and abetting)
(3) Forcing taxpayers to underwrite crimes against the state without their knowledge or consent (constitutes the crime of second degree coercion of taxpayers, and should be prosecuted at once).
(4) Colluding to rig funding legislation.
Thanks for the info - hard to tell what they are saying on the radio.
My fault.
A man who stands for my point of view was attacked by parasites.
And I wasn't there to defend him.
I must apologize, and extend my promise that I intend to be there next time.
Gads, first 40 years of ssubversion and now they’re coming out of the closet and attacking. This sh*t needs to stop. The double standards are pathetic.
BTW....not to crap up the thread....but I saw this organization advertise on FOX (cable) or all places. Could NOT believe it!
http://www.cityyear.org/default_ektid13307.aspx
Is this ANOTHER ACORN front group? Made me wick when I saw it. Nearly the same logo.
http://www.cityyear.org/default_ektid13307.aspx
Never in my life did I believe that the Democratic Party would ever want a dictatorship. And this is what I see forming with groups like Acorn around. If they have a track record of fraud they need to be disbanded.
Why indeed. These types of tactics must be forcefully confronted or they will only get worse. The thugs should be identified and arrested as a minimum and direct assault must be countered with as much force as necessary.
If Roosevelt hadn't died he would have gone for it, mark my words.
All this will do is radicalize the White People. Further dividing people into race-groups. Obama will be not a uniter but a person who will divide the nation. Ever wonder why David Duke and the KKK were behind Obama?
"What?"
Mob Rule
They are not intimidating me. You have two choices; one stand up to them and fight back; Two roll over like a dog with your feet and hands in the air and let them kill you.
“Never in my life did I believe that the Democratic Party would ever want a dictatorship”
Where have you been in the last 30 years?
“Today’s disgraceful actions outside the Senate chamber were clearly sanctioned by Secretary of the Senate Angelo Aponte,” Winner said. “He put the well-being of staff and legislators in jeopardy by allowing a violent protest in a restricted area of the Senate lobby.”
The hell with Aponte. Do any of these Republicans have a damned cell phone? Get on the horn and call the State Police. Tell them there is a riot at the State House by a violent mob. Maybe that would get their asses moving.
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