Free Republic

88 Third Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11278 Phone :718-246-7900 URL :http://acorn.org/index.php?id=1600 Largest radical group in America, with 175,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 850 chapters in 70 US cities Implicated in numerous reports of fraudulent voter registration, vote-rigging, voter intimidation, and vote-for-pay scams during the 2004 election Maintains close ties to organized labor The Board of Elections in Cuyahoga County, Ohio has accused ACORN’s paid workers of submitting fraudulent registration cards. According to the Board, ACORN workers commonly submitted separate voter registration cards with duplicate names but different addresses or different birth dates. Other cards listed a number of people...

The great American dream is quickly becoming the great American scam. With so many homeowners forced into foreclosure last year, and just as many expected this year, the number of people willing to swindle consumers out of their homes is also on the rise. Those "We Buy Homes -- Instant Cash" signs you see around many urban areas aren't true. They simply prey on people in financial trouble. "Instead of throwing them a life jacket, they are throwing them an anchor," said Mal Maynard, executive director of the Financial Protection Law Center in Wilmington, N.C., a nonprofit group that advocates...