6 million indictments... that would be nice...
Posted on 09/15/2009 7:08:57 AM PDT by kingattax
An ACORN affiliate has just submitted applications for over $6 million in government funding, despite the controversial videos of the organization’s workers aiding a child prostitution “promoter.”
Employees with the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) in Washington D.C., Baltimore and Brooklyn told uncover investigators posing as a pimp and a prostitute how they could circumvent the law. ACORN has already fired four of the workers. But it claims the tapes have been “doctored” and “edited.”
A third video implicating the ACORN workers was released today. Meanwhile, the ACORN Institute, one of many ACORN affiliates, has applied for over $6 million in grant money for broadband projects. ACORN and its various affiliates have received at least $53 million in federal funds since 1994.
The Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) have announced that they have received about 2,200 applications requesting nearly $28 billion in funding that applies to all 50 states and Washington D.C. This funding included as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It has been set up to “help bridge the technological divide and create jobs building Internet infrastructure,” according to the NTIA. ACORN Institute has filed two separate applications with the Commerce Department. One in the amount of $3,172,042 and the other in amount of $2,999,903.
The grant description reads as follows: “The Digital Empowerment Project bridges the digital divide in low-income and minority populations by promoting adoption through grassroots outreach, training participants in computer centers; and providing in-home computers and broadband access. This approach is based on research-driven practices and ensures an efficient and scalable effort to facilitate broadband in disadvantaged populations.”
Former and current members of the organization now active with ACORN 8, a whistleblower group, have called for a federal investigation. Michael McCray, a spokesman for ACORN 8, told The Examiner that funding should be withheld until after there is a forensic audit.
As The Examiner has previously reported, ACORN remains eligible for over $8 billion in federal funding through stimulus money and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
chan”NO More Tax dollars for Acorn”
” An ACORN affiliate has just submitted applications for over $6 million in government funding, despite the controversial videos of the organization’s workers aiding a child prostitution “promoter.” “
Just heard on FNC a quote from ‘Big Bertha’ saying, in effect, “We don’t need your steenkin’ money, nohow..”
Tee hee.....
6 million indictments... that would be nice...
Yeah, that’s because Bertha gets her money from CCI and probably the other almost 200 firms that are offsprings of Acorn.
This whole establishment needs to be audited and put out of business.
I guess obama needs to give the fired workers severance pay.
....I’m glad they applied for more money....this kind of publicity will only serve to alert more people about the kind of crap the Dems are permitting....we really need a Willie Horton type of campaign in 2010.
DENIED
PING!!
ACORN just going through another door to rob us blind!
“We needs the moneys to defends ourselves. Dem attorneys don come cheap.”
Any one or more of their 140+ member groups are receiving Federal money without strings so that they may share with the others making the ACORN head office moot.
This is the way this HYDRA like multiheaded beast was designed.
How about this: Maybe SUSPEND $$$ to them while they are being audited? There is not a ‘lowest-on-the-totem-pole’ or most recently-hired small-city council employee who would still have a job (much less continue receiving $$$) if he committed one one millionth the infractions or irregularities these people have!!!!
This whole case just proves that congress is either complicit in this sort of organized crime racket (Democrats) or too effing stupid (GOP) to investigate the organizations to whom they hand millions of dollars of OUR money.
They should not be in charge of ANYTHING. Not social engineering. Not community development. Not building cars. Not banking. Not health care. Nothing. They are incompetent and should be fired.
No, I think the jig is up for ACORN. Every penny is now going to be scrutinized.
The MSM can ignore it all they want, but will just further marginalize themselves. Most congressmen want to ignore it, but a few brave conservatives will keep looking at all their funding now.
The internet is on their ass like pit bulls, dragging along the Murdoch media (FoxNews, the NY Post, etc.) and they are SO dirty, SO corrupt, that it's easy to find new outrages everyday.
It won't be long before they, as an organization, are introduced to the underside of Obama's bus. Of course, any of the truly useful minions will just find themselves in the employ of some other leftwing criminal organization, with their salaries increased. The ACORN peons can just go on welfare, where they belonged in the first place.
ACORN is a soon-to-be ex-organization. No criminal charges will follow though. We, the outraged, will just be expected to accept that as punishment enough.
I don't dispute that at all. They will likely do a name change.
What I'm saying is that it means nothing.
Currently, we know that any one of their associated organizations are only loosely associated. When one of them receives a grant, apart from ACORN, the money being fungible, spread to other part of the group via bank transfers.
We know this from previous investigations.
The name ACORN is just that. Just a name.
Should the Connecticut downtown merchants association, (made this up) receive a government check from the stimulus for 3 billion dollars, that money comes out of that bank account with lightning speed and is disseminated to other groups with virtually no ability to trace it because of the private nonprofit nature of these various groups.
Unless the Federal and state governments are willing to write laws giving the State and Federal watchdog agencies and law enforcement the power to audit and regulate these entities, and they are decidedly not willing to do this, taking ACORN out of the mix will be nothing but a temporary irritation. The money will continue to flow. There is nothing to stop it.
And help with their attorney fees
Sorry :-)
Ummm...no.
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