Posted on 09/11/2009 7:49:09 AM PDT by freespirited
One day after two ACORN officials in Baltimore were fired for offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute to engage in child prostitution and a series of tax crimes, another secretly shot videotape has surfaced that shows the same couple getting similar advice from ACORN officers in Washington.
The newly released videotape, shot on July 25, shows ACORN staffers explaining to the pair how they can hide the woman's professed work — prostitution — and get a loan that will help them establish a brothel.
James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as the pimp while visiting the ACORN office, accompanied by 20-year-old Hannah Giles, who posed as the prostitute. On a videotape provided to FOXNews.com, they are seen receiving guidance to establish the woman as the sole proprietor of a bogus company to mask the nature of her business.
"She's not going to put on (the loan application) that she's doing prostitution ... she doesn't have to," the ACORN staffer says. "You don't have to sit back and tell people what you do."
The ACORN staffer is heard suggesting that O'Keefe can purchase a house, and as the landlord, if he is ever questioned by authorities, he can say he was unaware of the illegal business going on inside.
"[W]hen the police ask you, (tell them) you don't know where (the money is) coming from," the staffer said. "We are looking out for you."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Hey now, CNN! Are you assuming that the filmmakers are conservative just because they're stinging ACORN?
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I would love to be a fly on the wall and watch what that ACORN spokesman is doing right now.
He probably doesn’t know what to say and is wondering “are there more?”.
LOL
There has to be more.
ping
Hannah Giles
Names to remember. They're heroes already, and I'd like to shake their hands.
Wouldn't it be great to see them in DC tomorrow?
I felt the same way. How can you not be suspicious when a “law student” comes in and says he wants to make money being a pimp? And doesn’t mind that his girlfriend is a whore. And would risk his legal career with this cockamamie scheme.
Makes no sense at all to me, but hey, I’d never get hired at ACORN.
That would have been my first question too! She's hot!
This young lady did a great job! What an actress, eh?
A tough cookie, she is.
Yeah, and the pimp was hilarious.
I don’t think it was wise for Hannah to reveal herself.
Acorn, with its media allies, will attempt to dig up dirt, whether real of fantasy, on her and the “pimp”.
Also, note the description of the film makers. They are described as conservative activist filmmakers.
And they are saying “there are problems with the video.” Watch the video from CNN. It’s very interesting how they portray it. They go to every possible length to attack the video and the people who made it, and give every benefit of the doubt to ACORN. They also point out that Maryland is a “two party consent” state, so this video probably won’t be admissible as evidence in a Maryland court.
I do wish that Hannah Giles could have made it to CNN for an interview. I wonder why she backed out?
Also, I caught the “spent my life savings” comment from Hannah on Beck yesterday. I hope she had enough savings for a month of travel. For now, I think it's safe to assume these two filmed as many offices as they could over a month or more, given that the one released today was from late July. And since Levensen said that he knew they tried this stunt at other offices, we can infer that at least some offices reported this up the chain. They might have filmed until some internal memo went out warning ACORN offices not to help the "prostitute and pimp" who were going around to all the offices.
I’d be real interested if Giles and O’Keefe could give an answer as to what percentage of the ACORN offices were helpful, and what percentage told them that they couldn’t be involved with illegal activities. This isn’t a single isolated incident. And even if ACORN offices are on average only 15% likely to help criminals with their crimes, that's a huge problem. The entire organization needs to be shut down. But knowing the total level of corruption in their system would be good information to have.
Thanks, I do recall Beck saying he was knee deep in transcripts.
That would explain Hannah’s need to drain her savings account.
Man, when you see those bozos grinning like that, you know the U.S. is getting hosed big time.
Oh this is gold! Especially since ACORN said they tried this at other offices and it didn’t work... I hope they have hundreds of these! lol
You betcha.
$8k x 12 months x 12 girls, give or take. Why go legit? To pay taxes? and leave a paper trail that can stick to his lawyer loafers?
A guy who looks like a deacon walks in and asks how to lead a life of crime, that’s a candid camera moment if I ever saw one.
I bet he has Skip Gates call them racists.
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