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Amount Embezzled From Acorn Is Disputed
The New York Times ^ | October 5, 2009 | CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

Posted on 10/05/2009 6:47:17 PM PDT by Grammar Nazi

NEW ORLEANS — An internal review at Acorn, the embattled community organizing group, revealed that its founder’s brother had embezzled $5 million from the group, five times more than the amount disclosed, according to a subpoena served Monday by the Louisiana attorney general. But the organization’s chief executive denied that any internal review had revealed that figure.

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KEYWORDS: acorn; berthalewis; crime; embezzlement; jonkest; neworleans
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1 posted on 10/05/2009 6:47:18 PM PDT by Grammar Nazi
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To: Grammar Nazi

Ah!

What’s a few million amongst friends!


2 posted on 10/05/2009 6:50:29 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: Grammar Nazi

Hahaha. Have a beignet.


3 posted on 10/05/2009 6:52:54 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ('They're drinking the juice.'~ Barack H. Obama)
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To: aShepard
What’s a few million amongst friends!

The unidentified balance was for bonuses, just like the bankers.

4 posted on 10/05/2009 6:53:58 PM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: Grammar Nazi

The NYTimes, eh?

They must have taken my advice. Hope they get more advertisers this way.


5 posted on 10/05/2009 6:54:24 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Grammar Nazi

What the hell do they care? It’s all taxpayer money.


6 posted on 10/05/2009 6:55:09 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Grammar Nazi

Corruption in NOLA?

NOOO! say it’s not SO!


7 posted on 10/05/2009 6:55:14 PM PDT by TWohlford
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To: Grammar Nazi

1 million, 5 million, who’s counting?


8 posted on 10/05/2009 6:56:22 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what you can do for Obama.)
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To: Grammar Nazi

Party on, Garth!
9 posted on 10/05/2009 7:00:34 PM PDT by smokingfrog (No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session. I AM JIM THOMPSON)
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To: Grammar Nazi
Times still has one foot stuck in lefty quicksand.

"the review had found that the amount embezzled was a little less than $1 million, a figure that has already been publicly disclosed and acknowledged."

Yeah, disclosed and acknowledged after it was known to Bertha for eight years and she did nothing until two former ACORN staff blew the whistle on it.

Bertha should be prosecuted.

10 posted on 10/05/2009 7:02:24 PM PDT by GVnana (Sarah for America)
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To: Grammar Nazi

They should have checked the freezer sooner.


11 posted on 10/05/2009 7:02:51 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (It always easier to find spelling errors after you post.)
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To: Grammar Nazi

Meanwhile the NYSlimes has announced it is doubling the number of reporters digging through the trash in Alaska.


12 posted on 10/05/2009 7:05:27 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Grammar Nazi

The Catholic Bishops pulled the funding going to ACORN and used this embezzlement as their reason.

I was tempted to write to our Bishop and say, “You ought to be thankful this crook embezzled the money, because otherwise it all would have been spent to buy fake votes to elect abortion lovers to office.”

The more this guy embezzled, the less was left to spend on destroying our country.


13 posted on 10/05/2009 7:11:00 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Drango

Yep, someone will pay for this; Palin better be prepared.


14 posted on 10/05/2009 7:13:58 PM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: Grammar Nazi

Counting deck chairs on the Titanic . . .


15 posted on 10/05/2009 7:20:07 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Jet Jaguar

Ping.


16 posted on 10/05/2009 7:23:13 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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I wish someone would investigate GROUNDSPRING (note the reference to water as in TIDES and Tsunami). It is an organization that collected online donations for different charities.Is it possibly a moneylaudering operation??? It merged with Network for Good. It still collects funds for different radical organizations and TIDES CEO Drummond Pikes sits on the board. Here are some of the organizations that it collects donations from....

http://www.womenprisoners.org/about/

Obama’s group ... http://leadershiplearning.org/leadership-resources/leadership-program-directory/public-allies-dc

http://www.globalpolicy.org/about-gpf-mm/introduction.html

http://old.healthcare-now.org/board_of_directors.html

http://www.mecaforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=17

http://seac.org/about

When you pull up the page on Groundspring on Guidestar site..3 organizations come up...one of them is Michelle Obama’s High School!!!

http://www2.guidestar.org/SearchResults.aspx

17 posted on 10/05/2009 7:27:22 PM PDT by dianed
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To: Army Air Corps; FlingWingFlyer; altair; stephenjohnbanker; little jeremiah; ~Kim4VRWC's~; ...

18 posted on 10/05/2009 7:28:55 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (A mob of one.)
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To: TWohlford

Heh... LA is an awful place to have to drive through - personal experience. What a corrupt group of law enforcement officers they have!

Probably the natural place to open a corrupt business like ACORN though... If you combine the local government with the state government and throw in law enforcement - well, you have a trifecta! Not a place to be raising kids for sure...

Use to go to Mardi Gras but even that has become so corrupt and dangerous that only the unenlightened still attend.


19 posted on 10/05/2009 7:34:03 PM PDT by Deagle
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Was there a report that Bertha told the ACORN Board the figure was closer to $8 million?

Maybe the figure was lower, but IIRC it was at least $5 million.


20 posted on 10/05/2009 7:42:36 PM PDT by maggief
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