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Justice Department Reviews Ties to Acorn
NYTimes ^ | September 21, 2009 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 09/21/2009 7:03:20 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar

An internal watchdog at the Justice Department said he was reviewing the agency’s involvement with the national community organizing group Acorn. Inspector General Glenn Fine wrote to Representative Lamar Smith, Republican of Texas, that his office would examine whether Acorn sought or received any Justice Department grant money, or conducted any reviews of the group’s use of such money. More than a dozen state and local authorities

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acorn; departmentofjustice; doj; federalprosecutor; obama; rico; whitehouse

1 posted on 09/21/2009 7:03:20 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; youturn; little jeremiah; ~Kim4VRWC's~; voteNRA; ...
ACORN Ping!

FReep mail me if you want on/off the list.


2 posted on 09/21/2009 7:04:01 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

is there anyone acorn did not get money from....


3 posted on 09/21/2009 7:04:35 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: Jet Jaguar

This would be the same Justice Dept who cut loose the New Black Panthers accused of voter intimidation at the PA polling place? Well, ain’t that grand.

That’s Chicago politics for ya.


4 posted on 09/21/2009 7:10:58 PM PDT by DDLL
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To: Jet Jaguar
I am not going to log in to the NYT. Was this article anywhere near the front page?
5 posted on 09/21/2009 7:14:55 PM PDT by altair (I hope he fails)
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To: altair

http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=acorn

No clue.


6 posted on 09/21/2009 7:19:27 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

NYSlimes....a little mention of ACORN...from the lunatic fringe media...no longer main stream.


7 posted on 09/21/2009 7:20:27 PM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: DDLL

Wondering the very same thing! I suppose they will drag their feet on this.


8 posted on 09/21/2009 7:46:30 PM PDT by Achilles Heel
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To: dalebert

I didn’t give them any.

Only because I’ve been too poor to pay income tax the last couple of years.


9 posted on 09/21/2009 8:57:32 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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