In written arguments submitted to the appeals court, the government said ACORN had acknowledged embezzlement and subsequent cover-up at the highest levels of the organization, including nearly $1 million taken from the group by the brother of its founder in 1999 and 2000. ACORN president Bertha Lewis....
"Dat whitey Ratke embezzled $5 mill from ACORN
and wuz eatn' lobstah and cavair at Cote Basque."
"All's I got wuz chitlin's, pig's feet, collard greens, and dis orange dashiki."
" Course dere's all my numbered accounts in Zimbabwe."