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Posted on 10/27/2009 4:01:43 PM PDT by RS_Rider
Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala Jr. has agreed not to charge ACORN with violating a state law regarding quotas for registering voters, under an agreement reached in a federal lawsuit today. The agreement between attorneys for ACORN and Zappala's office drops the district attorney from the lawsuit that challenges a state law barring use of quotas to pay voter registration canvassers. Under the three-page agreement filed today, Zappala agreed not to charge ACORN, or the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, with violations of the state law it is challenging. The agreement does not immediately affect pending criminal cases against six former ACORN canvassers. The former workers were charged not only with violating the quota law but several other state fraud statutes that carry heavier penalties than the quota statute. Those cases are expected to proceed, but the quota charges could be dropped as a result of the settlement. Witold Walczak, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney who represents ACORN, said the challenge to the state law would continue. It names state Attorney General Tom Corbett as defendant. Walczak said the settlement ends the immediate threat of further charges being brought against ACORN under the quota law. ACORN denies that it paid workers based on a quota system and instead says it paid the workers on an hourly basis, but did expect them to meet certain performance standards. Zappala was not available for comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Worthless government. Too bad the people of Allegheny County cannot legally choose to not pay their taxes to finance this racket.
And CNN will gush over the merits of the work of this organization when election time rolls around again saying “ACORN was never found guilty of any wrong doing”?
And what does the county get as its part of the “settlement”? The excerpt at least makes it look like a one-way street.
Yeah—I am a bit confused as to what actually went on.
I think that zero had his people “talk” with the fine district attorney during the G20 scam and set him straight.
Quota-Shmota... it’s am minor charge anyways, we can work around that!
ACORN broke the law.....so they are suing the state to overturn the law....The DA agreed not to charge ACORN itself and ACORN dropped the DA from the lawsuit...
Quid pro quo.
Let that be a lesson to you...break the law and get caught...sue to get the law thrown out...
How come no one noticed that the ACLU is representing ACORN??
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