Patterico's Pontifications

6/10/2010

ACORN: It’s Back

Filed under: Crime,Obama — DRJ @ 12:12 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

In response to a Judicial Watch FOIA request, the government has provided FBI documents that implicate ACORN in election fraud and other wrongdoing:

“Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) related to the 2007 investigation and arrest of eight St. Louis, Missouri, workers from the “community organization” Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for violation of election laws and voter fraud.

The documents include handwritten notes from FBI investigators interviewing canvassers working with Project Vote, an ACORN affiliate. Among the highlights from the FBI handwritten notes:

* [ACORN] “Told employees not to talk to the FBI. ‘FBI trying to intimidate you.’”

* Fraudulent cards:
o To cause confusion on election day to keep polls open longer
o To allow people who can’t vote to vote.
o To allow to vote multiple times.

* Project Vote will pay them whether cards fake or not – whatever they had to do to get the cards was attitude.

* Constantly threatened

* Staff restricted on what to say to FBI

* “Poverty pimpin” (sic) ACORN

* ACORN HQ is wkg for the Democratic Party.

* PV [Project Vote] pays ACORN $6.00 per card…Said “You treat the cards like (cash) $”

* Some [names] went right from the phone book and made up the rest.

* Canvassers: homeless, volatile, drug users, drunks…

* Anyone who was against PV (Project Vote) or ACORN’s goals “right wing”

* She thought if she used a completely fake name it would be less like ID Theft…”Yeah, it’s against the law, I know.”

In addition to the hand-written notes, the documents also include copies of the arrest warrants, criminal case cover sheets and court documents. In April 2008, all eight ACORN employees involved in the scandal pled guilty to voter registration fraud.

In March 2010, Judicial Watch obtained a separate batch of FBI documents detailing federal investigations into alleged ACORN corruption and voter registration fraud in Connecticut. The FBI and Department of Justice initiated investigations. However, the Obama Justice Department, while noting that ACORN had engaged in “questionable hiring and training practices,” closed down the investigation in March 2009, claiming ACORN broke no laws.

“These documents show the need for a national criminal investigation by the Obama Justice Department into ACORN. Is Attorney General Holder doing nothing because of Obama’s close connections to ACORN and Project Vote? The information in these new documents has national implications that cry out for further investigation,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.”

At the Judicial Watch website link above, there are additional links that provide information for each allegation.

Also, the Daily Caller and Big Government have more on ACORN’s attempts to rebrand and reinvent itself.

H/T JD.

— DRJ

15 Responses to “ACORN: It’s Back”

  1. All this data will go into the same file cabinet that contains the New Black Panther files, which is two rows down from the Ark of the Covenant.

    AD - RtR/OS! (e78fff)

  2. I am going to pre-emptively denounce and condemn you racists. That is all.

    JD (fc59fb)

  3. You are a racist JD.

    South Carolina Staunch Conservative (d0020f)

  4. #1 AD – RtR/OS!:

    which is two rows down from the Ark of the Covenant.

    I thought those were over in the same row as the map to Atlantis?

    No wonder nobody can find them.

    EW1(SG) (edc268)

  5. I know this much, this person claiming to be a conservative from SC may be from there, but sure as hell is not conservative.

    JD (6ca166)

  6. #5 JD:

    I know this much,

    I doan’ think it’s all that particlar’ brite, neether.

    EW1(SG) (edc268)

  7. Comment by South Carolina Staunch Conservative

    Uh, you forgot to put in the “Concerned Christian” part – can’t you even do Concern Troll puppetry correctly? Yeesh, someone call Axelrod and tell him that his well – oiled astroturf machinations have started to break down.

    Comment by Ellie Light

    Dmac (3d61d9)

  8. Another DoJ would be prosecuting for lying to the FBI. You know, like Bush’s did. And they called Bush’s DoJ political! I guess “political” means “not filled with Communists.”

    Kevin Murphy (805c5b)

  9. HAH! But did they find any evidence of ACTUAL VOTER FRAUD? I think not, you rabid raaaaaacist wingnutz!

    These were all low level ACORN employees who were immediately fired and ACORN itself told the election authorities about the fraudulent registration cards just like they always claim they do JUST BECAUSE OF THE LEGENDARY 100% PERFECT QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES OF ACORN. The quality goes in before the name goes on.

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  10. Geez, daley….what the hell have you been drinking?

    AD - RtR/OS! (e78fff)

  11. AD – Preemptive strike.

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  12. This post almost ensures more asshattery from the likes of Boehlert, bradblog, Hootenany, and the rest of the short bussers.

    JD (0b1bd3)

  13. RICO, call your office.

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)

  14. rebranding challenge
    pimpin ho’s and voter fraud
    hot fun summertime

    ColonelHaiku (57a85b)

  15. Did any of the boehlert/brad/douchenozzles have anything to say about this? No way they could craft a good enough lie that quickly, I suspect. MadCow did a segment on ACORN as a R smear job that just ignored almost everything they did wrong, and ignored this investigation.

    JD (c04985)


Powered by WordPress.

Page loaded in: 0.0744 secs.