Posted on 10/17/2008 4:24:22 PM PDT by OPS4
NEW ORLEANS — ACORN, the national activist group dogged by a high-profile voter registration fraud scandal, has another bruising item on its agenda when its board of directors meets here this weekend.
Leaders of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now are locked in a legal dispute stemming from allegations that the brother of the group's founder misappropriated nearly $1 million of the nonprofit's money several years ago.
The embezzlement case, a recent revelation to some board members, has spawned a lawsuit and set off a power struggle inside ACORN at a time when the liberal group's voter registration practices are the subject of fraud investigations and fodder for presidential campaign attacks.
Bertha Lewis, ACORN's interim chief organizer, called the lawsuit "a distraction from us marshaling our forces to deal with the Republican right-wing attacks" over ACORN's voter registration.
The lawsuit filed in August by two board members accuses ACORN founder and former chief organizer Wade Rathke of either concealing or failing to properly report that his brother Dale embezzled around $948,000 from New Orleans-based ACORN and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000.
Instead of reporting the allegations to law enforcement authorities, a small group of ACORN executives allowed the Rathke family to repay the misappropriated money, according to the lawsuit brought by board members Karen Inman and Marcel Reid.
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Just think of all the taxpayer dollars we’ll be saving once they put all of Acorn’s Obamacorns in jail. This is an October surprise. God bless the FBI guys!
Rats stealing from rats.
Yeah...it’s the brother of Wade Rathke, the founder of the Weather Underground....now SEIU leader who is accused, if I remember correctly.....AND, SEIU filed an amicus brief WITH the OHIO State whatever, Brunner.....oh, what a deceitful web we weave....
No honor among thieves.
Thieves stealing from thieves...that’s rich.
As my wife just said,
“Look at what kind of people they are: what else can you expect?”
ACORN, headquartered in New Orleans... Where else?
ACORN IS A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE that Specializes in VOTE FRAUD....and WE PAY FOR IT!!
Education
Rathke attended Williams College, a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, from 1965 to 1968.[2] A member of the radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS),[citation needed] he dropped out in 1968 to join the anti-draft movement.[3]
[edit] Founding of ACORN Rathke began his career as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) in Springfield, Massachusetts. After working with the NWRO, he left for Little Rock, Arkansas, to found a new organization designed to unite poor and working class families around a common agenda.
Pretty clear that ACORN has a shadier background than the MSM lets on about.
And ACORN was almost given TWENTY PERCENT of a POSSIBLE $800 BILLION DOLLARS by Bugeyes Piglousy, Dinghy Harry Reid, Chuckie Shumer, GAY Barnie and THE GRAND MESSIAH!!
Only a Human Outcry by American Patriots stopped the Travesty of these Far Left Traitors and AMERICA HATERS!
Clinton connection here?
I posted this on another thread last night
Did Wade Rathke Use ACORN to Settle A Personal Grudge Against Hillary Clinton?
October 13, 2008 |
At a crucial moment in the Democratic primaries, ACORN announced that it would be endorsing Barack Obama, possibly destroying any meaningful chance Hillary would have had to win Ohio. Did Wade Rathke’s ACORN support Obama, at least in part, as a means to settle a score with Hillary? Below is a quote regarding a case Hillary fought against Rathke back in the days of the Rose Law Firm.
The ability to argue all sides of an issue is a hallmark of the lawyerly mind. Hillary’s ability to assert moral residency on different ideological sides of an issue showed itself soon after she joined the Rose firm. The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, a group that works on behalf of the poor, had helped pass a local ballot initiative that gave low-income residents a break on utility bills and increased rates for businesses. Wanting to put a quick stop to this handout, the business community called upon its lawyers at the Rose Law Firm and asked them to defeat the ordinance in court.
Hillary soon found herself battling ACORN’s founder — and her close friend — Wade Rathke in court. Deftly marshaling constitutional theory, she convinced the judge that the ordinance constituted an unlawful taking of property. The law was nullified. Wade Rathke never spoke to Hillary again. For Hillary, though, the matter seemed entirely impersonal: She has maintained strong connections with ACORN and works with them today on minimum wage and election reform issues. She fought with and defeated a friend in court. That’s business. That’s what lawyers do. [LINK]
Hmm. Alhough ACORN did help Hillary win her Senate seat in NYC, so who knows.
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Hell, welfare is for the stupid, the scam is with "community organizing", apparently you have to have a taxpayer funded degree from princeton and harvard to get to this level of fraud...
For these criminals to utilize the term, “Acorn”, is an deep affront to the beautiful oak tree and its edible products.
I kind of wonder if Hillary’s campaign leaked the goods on ACORN.
I heard Rush Limbaugh the other day tie Bill Ayers of SDS (of which Weather Underground members came from) to Rathke in 60’s.
It would appear the 0be is the SDS’s articulate and clean, evil spawn.
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