Posted on 09/14/2009 6:24:40 AM PDT by markomalley
Ho, no!
A tag team pair of undercover activists, posing as a pimp and prostitute, has exposed the Brooklyn office of the left-leaning organization ACORN as the latest branch of the embattled group to be caught up in a housing scandal, the New York Post reported.
"Honesty is not going to get you the house," a loan counselor at the officers told the conservative activists turned faux flesh-peddlers who were posing as a couple seeking a mortgage, according to the Post.
The Brooklyn office was the latest branch of the organization exposed in a hidden-camera operation. Four ACORN employees have been fired as a result of earlier stings at offices in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, were told to lie about their profession in order to secure a loan.
"You know, what goes on in the house we don't care," a counselor told the couple. "We just help you with the mortgage."
Giles, who went by the name "Eden," was told she should say her profession is a "freelancer."
"Don't say that you're a prostitute thing or whatever," counselor Volda Albert Albert said.
She suggested Giles open two accounts at two different banks and put no more than $500 a week in order not to draw suspicion. She was told her to hide the rest, according to the Post.
"When you buy the house with a back yard. You get a tin ... and bury it down in there, and you put the money right in, and you put grass over it, and you don't tell a single soul but yourself where it is," she said.
Videos of the "sting" were posted on BigGovernment.com.
ACORN, aka " the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now," was accused of voter fraud during the 2008 presidential election.
So now we’re up to 3 “isolated” incidents?
I think we all know these people were trained to do this.
LOL! “the left leaning”
...ah, just slightly...!
If that’s left ‘leaning’, I’d hate to see LEFT.
What does Gov. Spitzer have to say?
I'm not sure you could tell for all the slavering he'd be doing over Hannah Giles.
LOL!
Interesting the website is the local NBC affiliate. They must not have gotten the memo from the parent company about keeping this under wraps.
3 strikes.
Acorn —>>money laundering-—>>DNC??? Just a speculation???
They did a great job on this one.
I’m not sure if they anticipated ACORN’s MO of “firing the bad apples”, but they sure countered it with the multiple incidents in multiple offices,
and holding off the subsequent videos until after ACORN tried its normal response to being caught.
What’s the head ACORN guy (Zer0) say about this? Doesn’t he realize he is being attacked? Where’s Gibbs? Axleshaft? Dead Fish?
HAHAHAHAHAHAH! And Right after ACORN released a statement saying that the “sting” failed in New York.
How do you like those Alinsky tactics now ACORN?
Wow, these two people: “James O’Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20” are American heroes. True Davids going up against Goliath and his flying monkeys.
Applause, applause.
I wonder if there are more stories that James and Hannah will keep letting out of the bag...
All Acorn “offices” need to be investigated for securing mortgages for “clients” by using fraudulent information.
This is Obama’s arms length community government organization that handles several government services and programs, a will be handling even more in the very near future, and in which taxpayers money is laundered and redistributed to Obama’s favorite minority, and it MUST be shut down. It’s his shadow government through which all his programs- re-education, census, intelligence, etc. including his national brownshirt police force will be organized and run through.
ACORN is a criminal enterprise. By now everybody knows someone is training these people what to do. The poor minorities are the front, the white racists run the organization for the Democrats.
Call the HUD director now, have them thrown out of the housing business.
Shouldn’t this be in breaking news?
The head acorn guy is all wee-weed up, wondering how many more of these videos are out there, and where they happened.
Watching the sting videos is similar to watching the weapon cam videos from the Apache helicopters.
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