Bio here: http://www.proskauer.com/lawyers_at_proskauer/atty_data/7476
Posted on 09/22/2009 9:31:07 AM PDT by blueyon
Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger will lead the internal investigation into ACORN's activities following a scandal over the group's operation, ACORN Board Chairwoman Maude Hurd announced Tuesday.
Controversy over the community organizer's practices erupted in recent weeks after a series of hidden-camera videos were released showing ACORN workers appearing to offer tax advice to a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute.
ACORN afterward pledged an internal review. Harshbarger will begin the investigation immediately.
"I have been asked by the leadership of ACORN to conduct an independent and comprehensive inquiry and review of the management of its service delivery to communities," Harshbarger said in a written release. "The CEO and Board have also asked me to make a full report, including recommendations for restoring ACORN's full capacities to carry out its mission on behalf of low-and moderate-income families."
The announcement comes on the heels of several developments in the wake of the ACORN scandal.
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Fox ... hen house
They selected?
THEY?!?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Harshbarger
Harshbarger found public prominence and political success, like Janet Reno, by prosecuting cases in the day care sex abuse hysteria of the 1980s.[citation needed] He obtained the conviction of Gerald Amirault and other employees of the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts.[citation needed] The Amirault conviction has been widely criticized as a gross miscarriage of justice by publications as politically diverse as The Wall Street Journal (e.g., April 30, 2004) and The Nation (e.g., Feb. 28, 2002).
From Wiki.....
He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Massachusetts in the 1998 gubernatorial election. He lost in a close race to incumbent Republican Governor Paul Celucci[2]. Afterwards, Harshbarger served as president of the public interest organization Common Cause for three years, where he spearheaded the successful push for campaign finance reform in 2002 (McCain-Feingold).
That’s all I have to know ..
Leave it up to the FBI. They broke federal laws. An internal investigation won’t do a dam thing and ACORN will operate as usual.
Does he pay taxes? Or is he another Timmy Geithner?
Harshbarger should not be trusted. He is a totally political animal and will do anything to increase his inside connections and the possibility of some kind of political comeback. Somebody needs to check out his links to Rathke, Soros, SEIU, et al. If they are there, then we should create a stink sooner rather than later.
The fix is in.
MARCH THEM IN FRONT OF CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION
WHERE THE GODDAM HEL ARE THE REPUBLICANS????????
“Would you ike a glass of water Chairwoman Hurd”...
Meanwhile, the Holder led DOJ will say they are awaiting the results of internal inquiry before determining if substantial violations of the federal criminal code have been violated. In other words, on hold pending burial.
Vince
The people who videotaped them should have gone one step further and asked them to make a phone call when they had helped them in some way
A conviction requires one act to further the crime (not just discussing it)
NOT THAT I AM NOT ETERNALLY GRATEFUL FOR WHAT THEY ALREADY HAVE DONE!!!
Somebody should ask the Amirault family what they think of Scott Harshbarger.
If ACORN chose the investigator, he cannot be independent.
Mr. Harshbarger served as President and CEO of Common Cause in Washington, DC, the national non-profit citizen's lobby and government watchdog group founded by John Gardner, from August, 1999 to November, 2002. His term marked a major reform and renewal for the organization and thrust Common Cause into the public interest mainstream. Common Cause led the coalition of national business and public interest advocacy groups, including grassroots organizations.
Mr. Harshbarger helped organized to push passage of the "McCain-Feingold" campaign finance reform bill in 2002, Mr. Harshbarger launched Common Cause's corporate governance project and dramatically expanded the organization's national agenda to include election reform and executive agency monitoring.
In 1998, the Democrat Party nominated Mr. Harshbarger for governor of Massachusetts. He received 48 percent of the vote, losing by a narrow margin to an incumbent governor. In 2003, Mr. Harshbarger was appointed by Governor Mitt Romney to head the Governor's Commission on Corrections Reform, following the murder of a defrocked priest, and their Report received national attention, as did the Report on Public Pension Reform issued by the Blue Ribbon Commission he chaired in 2004. During his tenure as District Attorney of Middlesex County, the largest county in Massachusetts with a population greater than 13 individual states, Mr. Harshbarger received national attention for his initiatives in public protection, juvenile justice, child abuse, and law enforcement training, partnerships with schools on drug and alcohol abuse and violence prevention and he received the Livingston Hall Award from the American Bar Association. Prior to being District Attorney Mr. Harshbarger also was the first General Counsel of the State Ethics Commission, Chief of the Public Protection Bureau in the Attorney General's office, and Deputy Chief Counsel for the Massachusetts Defenders Committee.
Mr. Harshbarger's public service continues with his chairmanship of Proskauer Rose's national Pro Bono Initiative, membership on the Independent Sector Panel of the Nonprofit Advisory Committee on Self Regulation and the Council on Foundations Ethics Advisory Committee as well as the International Association of Chiefs of Police/The Joyce Foundation Great Lakes Advisory Committee on Gun Violence Reduction. Mr. Harshbarger currently serves on the Boards of Directors at Union Theological Seminary, Chess-in-the-Schools in New York City, The Nonprofit Information Network Association (NonProfit Quarterly Magazine) and the Ethics Resource Center in Washington D.C. He is the independent chair of the Ethics and Audit Committee of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), and chair of the Legal Defense Advisory Group at the Epilepsy Foundation. Mr. Harshbarger previously served on the boards of the Epilepsy Foundation, DC Vote, and the Justice Resource Institute.
Mr. Harshbarger taught Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics at Boston University Law School for twenty years; and was a Visiting Professor (Government Lawyer and Public Policy) at Harvard Law School for three years; and Hadley Distinguished Professor at Northeastern Law School and College of Criminal Justice. Mr. Harshbarger has also authored numerous law and related articles on topics in the field of corporate and nonprofit governance, and regulatory strategies. He regularly speaks to state and national business groups, industry associations and legal, business and college audiences. Mr. Harshbarger appears often in the national media and routinely appears on New England Cable News as a commentator.
Now, what was it Obama said about "the people you associate with?"
BTW, this is an old buddy (and associate) of Romney's.
I watched the documentary “Capturing the Friedmans” not long ago, and it is shocking how easy convictions are to come by in this area. One or the other guy might have been guilty of something, I don’t know. But there was absolutely no hard evidence, and not only didn’t the kids’ stories match up, most of them didn’t even make any sense. The psychiatrists and/or cops coach them, and it’s painfully obvious.
“MARCH THEM IN FRONT OF CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION”
No, they’re too busy grilling pro baseball players about their herbs and supplements.
Well, then the FIX is IN!
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