Nov-07-2009Acorn Offices in New Orleans Are Raided
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CONTENTS:- State investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in New Orleans. (More...)
- Apparently reacting to reports of workers removing documents from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana. (More...)
- GREAT! Now dont stop until you bust up every last ACORN office in the nation. (More...)
- Your tax dollars will never stop being funneled to ACORN as long as the liberals hold so much power in DC, no matter who is in the WH. Did you see my post re: 11 Military cemeteries in France alone,3 in Belgium, 2 in Italy, 1 in Luxemborg, 1 in the Netherlands, 1 in Tunisia, North Africa. (More...)
- "We were told that the AG's office has no criticisms of ACORN's cooperative efforts, but rather that the warrant was issued because of concern that former local ACORN staff members had and may intend in the future, to remove or alter electronic documents." (More...)
- News of the raid comes from Marcel Reid and her colleagues at ACORN 8, an association of former ACORN leaders and board members. (More...)
- The search warrant was necessary, Caldwell said, because '''they can'''t watch everybody.''''' (More...)
- ACORN Deputy Director of National Operations Brian Kettenring released a statement Friday noting that agency has been cooperating with a "variety of governmental entities across the country to provide" requested information and documents. (More...)
SOURCESFIND OUT MORE ON THIS SUBJECTState investigators raided ACORN offices on Friday, taking away computer hard drives and documents as part of a probe into alleged embezzlement and tax fraud when the organization's national headquarters was based in New Orleans. "This is an investigation of everything -- ACORN, the national organization, the local organization and all of its affiliated entities, specifically as it relates to any potential violations of Louisiana law," Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell said.
[1] State investigators remove computers from the ACORN offices in New Orleans, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. A warrant was obtained to seize computers, hard drives and other documents after ACORN attorneys said two unidentified former employees took computers and other items when they left the organization.
[1] Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell said a warrant was obtained to seize computers, hard drives and other documents Friday. Caldwell said investigators will copy records and hard drives, then return them to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. He said the allegations of embezzlement were made last year by ACORN board members who were fired after they asked to look at the group's books. ACORN fired the longtime director of its Louisiana chapter last month, citing a lack of accountability.
[2] Investigators for the Louisiana Attorney General executed a search warrant Friday at ACORN's New Orleans office in connections to allegations of embezzlement and tax fraud.
[3] Apparently reacting to reports of workers removing documents from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has executed a search warrant on the premises today.
[4] The Attorney General's Office issued subpoenas in August seeking documents related to former ACORN International President
Wade Rathke and his brother
Dale Rathke, who kept the group's books. Those subpoenas were focused on possible ACORN violations for nonpayment of employee withholding taxes, obstructing justice and violating the Employee Retirement Security Act. Early last month, Caldwell's office
issued other subpoenas for records from ACORN's New Orleans office in the 2600 block of Canal Street, where the organization -- now moving its national headquarters to Washington -- has long been based. The seizure on Friday was an outgrowth of those subpoenas, according to Caldwell's office.
[5] ACORN said the $5 million figure was "a worst-case scenario" for what the embezzlement potentially could cost the group. For 33 years, ACORN's national headquarters was based in New Orleans after Wade Rathke moved here in the 1970s from Little Rock, Ark., where he started the organization. The embezzlement scandal led the organization to move its headquarters to Washington, D.C., earlier this year, a move that allowed the national organization to distance itself from the Rathkes. David Caldwell said he did not know which former ACORN employees removed the computers.
[1] The letter from Lowell does not make clear where the grand jury was convened.'' After learning ACORN was not going to comply ''' and hearing that two former ACORN employees had cleared their offices of everything, including computers ''' Caldwell'''s office executed a search warrant Friday and seized more than 100 computers and other records from the activist group'''s New Orleans headquarters.''
[6] Spokeswoman Tammi Arender Herring said the search warrant was executed shortly after 9 a.m. and resulted in the seizure of computers, hard drives and documents. "It is quite a bit of stuff," Herring said, adding that ACORN officials were "extremely cooperative." The search warrant follows the removal of computers and other items by two unidentified former ACORN employees when they left the organization, according to ACORN attorneys.
[3] '''Now we don'''t have to worry about anything walking off'''unless it'''s already gone.''''' As he spoke outside the ACORN headquarters at 2609 Canal St., investigators inside continued to load up scores of seized desktop and laptop computers, as well as other evidence. Caldwell said his office would copy the hard drives and return the computers to ACORN, perhaps within a week.'' He said attorneys representing ACORN alerted him to the fact that two employees, whom he did not identify, removed computers from the offices.
[6] The state investigation is taking place as the community organizing behemoth undergoes seismic shifts, and has seen some members form a reform group. David Caldwell said state investigators will copy the hard drives from ACORN's computers and return them next week.
[5] Whole story
here. Caldwell said investigators will copy records and hard drives, then return them to ACORN. He said the original allegations of embezzlement were made last year by ACORN board members who were fired after they asked for a forensic examination of the group's books. ACORN fired the longtime director of its Louisiana chapter last month, citing a lack of accountability.
[7] Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell said the original allegations of embezzlement were made last year by ACORN board members who were terminated after asking for an examination of the activist group's books. ACORN fired its longtime director of its Louisiana chapter last month, citing a lack of accountability.
[3] Big Government reports on developments in New Orleans where the Attorney General, David Caldwell, raided ACORN's office in connection with embezzlement and Tax Fraud. I know Odumbo will be insulated from this corrupt group, but it would be nice if they overlooked something and the Messiah is found to be tied to them.
[7] '''Regarding the federal grand jury subpoenas, ACORN does not object to the provision of information and documents to the federal government'''''' reads a letter from Abbe David Lowell of the Washington law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery.'' The letter was included in court filings from ACORN explaining the legal basis for why they weren'''t complying with a subpoena issued by Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, which seeks a wide range of accounting information regarding the group'''s many affiliated agencies.'' Lowell disclosed the federal investigation as he was writing to a New Orleans lawyer representing ACORN'''s local outside accountants.
[6] ACORN'''s New Orleans Office Raided by Louisiana Attorney General: In a fast-breaking development comes word that agents of the Attorney'''s General office in Louisiana have raided ACORN'''s offices in New Orleans.
[7] People inside and close to ACORN were angered by news last spring that Dale Rathke had taken close to $1 million from the organization, which is billed as an advocate for poor and working-class people. In the subpoenas, the state attorney general's office suggested that the embezzlement may have been on the order of $5 million, and that ACORN's current CEO, Bertha Lewis, acknowledged as much at an Oct. 17, 2008 board meeting, soon after she assumed the position. Lewis blasted the Attorney General's investigation last month, saying the state agency had bought a misleading version of events that she said was being peddled by disgruntled former ACORN board members.
[5] Agents from the state Attorney General's Office executed a search warrant Friday on ACORN's local headquarters, seizing roughly 100 computers and files as part of an ongoing state embezzlement and accounting fraud investigation.
[5] Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has served''a search warrant at the''
ACORN office''at 2609''Canal Street, according to Tammi Arender Herring, a spokeswoman with the office. Investigators in khaki pants and polo shirts loaded several dozen computers and other electronic items into an SUV. They are also''carrying records out of the building on handcarts.
[7] "We were not in the mood to sit around and wait a whole long time," said David Caldwell, the assistant attorney general over Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions and son of the attorney general. "Now we don't have to worry about anything walking off…unless it's already gone." Having a little experience in this arena, the AG should issue a third party subpoena to all the related organizations, including Citizens United, SEIU, Working Families Party, etc. to obtain all communications and documentation concerning ACORN. Perfectly legit, and that would blow things out of the water.hope Im not giving good ideas out here. If acorn has nothing to hide why take two computers, why fight the subpeonas? They are as dirty as the as the day is long! someone in the U.S. Attoneys office is working for them as well how else would they be informed of the coming search and two computers just happen to disappear? Stop the funding for acorn and every other group afilliated with them. They all are involved in a crimal enterprise. Wake Up america! If it smells like a duck, looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck its a duck! Lawyers are a big part of the problem. Theri job is to get their client off not find the truth. Investigate the lawyers for Acorn as well and see what ups with them and their criminal friends.
[6] Michael DeMocker/The Times-Picayune Stephen Bradbury of ACORN collects business cards from reporters as investigators with the state Attorney General's Office seize computers from the ACORN office on Canal Street.
[5] KEY WORDS: Attorney Generals Office in Louisiana. Well its going to have to be up to the states that raid these cesspools because good ole Eric Holder aint gonna do nothin. If anything I would keep it secret from the feds because theyll probably tip em off. Any ACORN offices in demonrat states dont have to worry about this. Its the state attorney generals office investigating, mercifully, instead of Obamas tame Attorney General that lets black panthers off when they intimidate voters at the polls. Fortunately, this raid was carried out by the State of Louisiana and not the U.S. Attorney General.
[7] In a fast-breaking development comes word that agents of the Attorney's General office in Louisiana have raided ACORN's offices in New Orleans. The movement, whether it be an ACORN being closed or Nancy Pelosi being sent packing or a state government electing the right leader, is slowly gathering momentum. Nothing is going to be done, Wake up people The big guy is in charge and he will protect his people just like he did to the BLACK PANTHERS with billy clubs.
[7] ACORN is going down and yet with the Democrats behind them it is taking a very long time. ACORN has gone quiet for a few weeks so hopefully this will remind everyone. Sadly they are still being funded by the government there needs to be a way to shut them down. Breitbart.com, Glenn Beck,
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http://www.AmericanParchment.com, and the GOP have been on their tails and hopefully something can shut them down. News came from American Parchment that there is a few new groups that have come from ACORN in Louisiana and a few other states so hopefully we can find a way to shut them down.
[7] Amid the paperwork associated with a search warrant served on ACORN'''s New Orleans headquarters Friday is a one-sentence acknowledgement by the embattled activist group'''s attorneys that it is has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury.
[6] NEW ORLEANS — Investigators are searching the New Orleans offices of the activist group ACORN in connection with embezzlement and tax fraud allegations.
[2] An undercover state investigator removes computers from the ACORN offices in New Orleans, Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.
[8] The videos led Congress and state governments to cut funding for ACORN. State prosecutors said their probe into the New Orleans offices stemmed from allegations made last year by board members involving embezzlement at ACORN nearly a decade ago.
[1] The investigation pertains to a decade-old embezzlement case that came to light only last year. Dale Rathke, brother of the organization's founder, had stolen $1 million from an ACORN affiliate that he ran. (The Attorney General recently asserted in an affidavit that the embezzlement reached $5 million.)
[4] The Rathke family and a donor repaid the money and no charges were ever brought. Last month, Attorney General Buddy Caldwell, the father of David Caldwell, said he would step up an investigation into allegations that the embezzlement may have been as high as $5 million.
[1] The attorney general has already served subpoenas on the former head of ACORN, Rathke, whose brother is alleged to have improperly charged at least $1 million to ACORN-related credit cards.
[6] ACORN national officials recently fired longtime local ACORN leader Beth Butler, the common-law wife of ACORN founder Wade Rathke.'' Caldwell credited ACORN and its attorneys for calling the computer removals to his attention and said they acted in good faith.
[6] "Caldwell credited ACORN and its attorneys for calling the computer removals to his attention and said they acted in good faith." Oh what a load, how did the two employees know to scadaddle? Typical attorney BS, notify your client of what "not" to do then cover for them.
[6] Armed investigators in SUV'''s arrived about 8 a.m. at the organization'''s headquarters at 2609 Canal Street. By 2 p.m., they had loaded four vehicles with computer hardware. Caldwell spokeswoman Tammi Arrender said ACORN employees were polite and cooperative with officials, though they were irritated by the presence of reporters and news media cameras.''
[6] The computers contain payroll information for the national organization. Caldwell noted that some computers were not taken Friday because they would have affected the agency's immediate payroll, and forced some to go without paychecks. Caldwell said investigators worked with ACORN members and will pick up those items in the near future.
[5] David Caldwell said the probable cause cited in the search warrant stemmed from ACORN's own acknowledgement that one or two recently terminated employees may have taken computers or other pertinent materials from the office.
[5] Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell said the office got a tip that some employee computers may be missing.
[9] Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has been investigating the community organizing agency since June. The seizure on Friday focused on computers and "electronic media," such as e-mail and files, said David Caldwell, an assistant attorney general and son of the attorney general.
[5] '''We were not in the mood to sit around and wait a whole long time,''' said David Caldwell, the assistant attorney general over Public Corruption and Special Prosecutions and son of the attorney general.
[6] Prime time for an INDEPENDANT PROSECUTER to investigate the White House and the Attorney Generals Office for "OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE"".Maybe when thier terms expire, we will demand JUSTICE.
[7] The attorney general has been investigating the national activist groups since June on allegations of payroll tax fraud, covering up an embezzlement, and mismanaging a retirement fund, among other things.''
[6] I still can not believe that after finding out that millions were embezzzled from a group that gets taxpayer grants, Obamas Attorney General has not stepped in and forced an investigation and audit.
[7] ACORN staff on the scene declined to comment, but an attorney for the group said in a statement the raid was prompted by allegations that former ACORN employees had removed or altered electronic documents and may do so in the future.
[1] Attorney Pamela Marple said ACORN was cooperating and called the raid exhaustive, saying investigators wanted "virtually every document in the possession of ACORN and any related entity."
[1] Yeah. Im sure ACORN never saw this coming and didnt destroy all of their old hard drives, shred all "ugly" documents, and otherwise scrub the place nice and clean for the investigators. I know that these ARCON people are stupid but are they THAT stupid? I guess we are about to find out.
[7] Investigators executed a search warrant and hauled off laptops and hard drives to make copies of information stored on the computers.
[9] Past time. By now they could have backed up the hard drives of other computers and then destroyed them and purchased new computers.
[7] According to
local news sources, computer hard drives and payroll records are being seized for analysis.
[4] You are right, but my first thought when I heard the news was that the PCs with any incriminating evidence are likely long gone by now. If the PCs are not new, they could have easily replaced all hard drives that would be useful.
[7] Electronic discovery is precise science, a very efficient and productive science. Unless the bumbling employees (or techs) scrubbed every hard drive (a long, involved process) and every backup file, the police will indeed find their evidence.
[7] You really DONT want Jindal for President do you? Do your homework on this fella, he failed his Louisiana residents in many ways lies, loss of jobs, etc. Only cares about himself and his cronies, hurts his hard working residents and state employees.
[7] 
Apparently reacting to reports of workers removing documents from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) headquarters in New Orleans, Louisiana. Earlier this week, we discussed the White House's was claiming the "stimulus saves nine out of every five jobs."
[4] ACORN's New Orleans was, for decades, the headquarters of the national community organizing association.
[7] When will the national headquarters of ACORN be raided? If they time it right they will catch POTUS in the Oval Office.
[7] Something doesnt sound right. It almost sounds like a reverse political stunt to stop criticism against ACORN. I would be suspicious if they found nothing!!! I mean look, they know they are under the magnifying glass and they are given this much time to get rid of any incriminating evidence. Isnt most of LA ran by democrats? If they saw this coming, dont you think they could have warned ACORN, or on the other end of the spectrum, dont you think they could have planned this publicity stunt to publicize that nothing was found and they may come up clean?? Stay tuned. I dont trust any of these people as far as I could throw them.
[7] Finally. These corrupt socialists should be held accountable. End them. Bury them. They have no right to our tax dollars and never did. Acorn has had plenty of time to do their shreadding. I'm sure we will hear what a wonderful job they have done for the American people just like Washington claims the new Healthcare bill will do.
[7] Where there is a will, theres a way. The Democrats LOVE the idea of having this little social group in their back pocket. Theyll act all surprised and stuff now BECAUSE THEY GOT CAUGHT but loved everything ACORN brought to the party. more votes = more voted in Democrats = more power. While Nancy and Harry are running the ship, theyll play lip service to the effort behind stopping the illegal activity HOWEVER, the D party NEEDS ACORN. So like the fun little Gopher game at Chuckee Cheese. Remember that one? These radicals will pop up as something else and that something else will then get the funding from Nancy and Harry so all the democratic machine can still get the votes from dead people like theyve been getting in the past.
[7] While African Americans are used as pawns by Sharpton et al and the Democrat party and will stay at the bottom of the pile. Now, now, lets not jump to conclusions, Im sure the nice folks at ACORN will have a perfectly reasonable and believable explanation for what ever it is these mean white folks have accused them of. I mean really, these are just poor folks trying to help those who help themselves to other peoples money and their votes and we need to lighten up so they can steal even more.
[7] Yea ACORN had to go. They were registering black and latino people to vote. We know thats not good for Republicans so therefore they have to go. This really eliminates the impending doom of the literal fact Republicans are a dying breed demographically oh for about 30 seconds. By 2030, the GOP will be a strictly rural, white, southern party with little to no involvement in national politics based on nothing more than the changing demographics of this country (More than it is today.)
[7] RoBoTech, you make a good point about ACORN being told about the raid. Before its over Eric Holder will step in and launch a probe into the States action to determine the extent of the civil rights violations against ACORN. Heads will roll for this naked aggression and abuse of power against the community organizers people.
[7] The movement, whether it be an ACORN being closed or Nancy Pelosi being sent packing or a state government electing the right leader, is slowly gathering momentum.
[7] In the state investigation, ACORN attorneys are citing an accountant/client privilege as the basis for withholding financial files, Caldwell said.
[5] Whitney Bank and the accountants have also been hit with subpoenas.'' Rathke and his brother, Dale, who worked on the financial side of the house, were ousted from their positions with the primary ACORN organization, though Wade Rathke continues to work with an international offshoot.'' Buddy Caldwell made headlines nationally recently when he said in court documents that Dale Rathke might have embezzled up to $5 million, though ACORN officials have disputed that amount.
[6] ACORN last year settled an internal dispute and a lawsuit involving accusations that Dale Rathke, the brother of the group's founder, Wade Rathke, made around $948,000 in improper credit card charges in 1999 and 2000.
[1] When the theft was discovered, a handful of ACORN officials covered it up, hiding the information even from the group's directors out of fear that publication could be embarrassing to the group's left-wing mission. Rathke agreed to pay back the money he had stolen, and eventually a donor paid off his "debt" to ACORN. But the cover-up ended in 2008 when the scandal was leaked to the press. Many of those involved in the cover-up continue to work within the ACORN family of organizations, and two directors who demanded a public accounting of the funds were summarily purged from the board.
[4] Organizations, especially tax exempt ones like ACORN, can embezzle money too! Understand how business works before you try defend a corrupt organization.
[7] Maxine Waters even suggesting (let alone sponsoring and amendment) that a criminal organization like Acorn be given any kind of oversight of banking regulations after everything that has been exposed is repugnant, should not be tolerated, and is in her case totally expected.
[6] GREAT! Now dont stop until you bust up every last ACORN office in the nation. These maggots need to be crushed and we need to make sure they dont resurrect under a different name. One more think Obama can cry about this week.
[7] Maybe it does. The shedders at ACORN offices around the country must be working overtime this weekend. That this group would be involved in a Census is a national disgrace.
[7] Obama has a lot to lose if we learn too much about Acorn and her 300+ shell companies. I wonder who recommended all those shell companies to hide money thru. Didnt Obama work as theri legal council? He sure did! if he was just a little ;awyer doing minor work of the group why did they go all out to support him and commit voter fraud to help get him elected? Money probably changed hands! Keep up the good work Louisiana and may God bless your families and your work. There are still Democrats who voted against de-funding this criminal, govt sponsored, enterprise.
[7] Just shows you how corrupt Obama and his minion DEMarxists are in government. I suspect that if they follow the money trail made by these embezzlers and crooks, that trail will lead right to the foot steps of the White House. You do not mess with our friggen votes. if we have to show with our guns we will. acorn wants to elect a bunch of politicians that steal private property from other t/ps. those politicians have caused this great country to be on the brink of bankruptcy. i want to rip their friggen heads off.
[7] Obama would be dissappointed of all of you. Next step if the FBI connects the apparently Kenyan born marxist Barry Soetoro (he hasn't produced a birth certificate yet)(a.k.a Barrack Hussein Obama) to ACORN and we have a full house! Prosecute him for sedition and high crimes and misdemeanors against our U.S. Constitution and we the American people.
[7] Videotapes released recently showed ACORN employees offering tax advice to two people in Baltimore posing as a prostitute and her pimp.
[1] You forgot to mention that the illegal immigrants who would be acting as prostitutes were also in the age 13 range (i.e., child prostitution and child slavery) as seen on the ACORN videos with not one ACORN employee having an issue with this.
[7] Your tax dollars will never stop being funneled to ACORN as long as the liberals hold so much power in DC, no matter who is in the WH. Did you see my post re: 11 Military cemeteries in France alone,3 in Belgium, 2 in Italy, 1 in Luxemborg, 1 in the Netherlands, 1 in Tunisia, North Africa. Me thinks Europe should be apoligizing to America. I dont care where this Obamination was born, HE IS NOT AN AMERICAN.
[7] Dont worry ACORN thugs, Eriv Holder will get you out of this. Lets just hope this isnt all for some political dog and pony show and some real results come from it. ACORN has been given plenty of time to hide and eliminate potentially damaging evidence however I doubt they have since they couldnt possible dream that theyd get raided.
[7] It probably is too late to find any evidence, but at least it is happening. I hope the folks that spoke up and were fired get ALL their back wages, and an IRS whistle-blower reward.Go Acorn 8 (but I suggest a name change).
[7] Unless ACORN leadership are real idiots, and I doubt that very much, all the links and true evidence will have been destroyed or moved months ago. One can only hope that this will change anything.
[7] Unless they are terribly stupid, I suspect that some of the larger Acorn operations and much of the really damning forensic evidence have long since vanishedespecially since the Breibart storm blew over their Baltimore operation during the late summer. This raid sounds very impressive in the headlines but may be a more diversionary or sacrificial move; draw attention to a corrupt fall person or subgroup, while the rest of the scoundrels wriggle away.
[7] I doubt very seriously whether anything will come of this. Do we really think such a corrupt oranization would not have shredded all the incriminating evidence by now?They have had plenty of time to do such. Its all show in my opinion. Obama and his minions have tipped them off well in advance of this raid. This Im sure of.
[7] Yeah, really. How much notice to you think that Holders office gave them before the raid. They had plenty of time to shred and burn documents.
[7] The AGs office had better be careful. The Obama administration does not like people messing with his darlings. They could get into big trouble for this raid.
[7] Political correctness and my hard earned money is being robbed from me, my children and family to keep you fat and happy, you socialist, lazy, irresponsible leech. Its amazing how I am the "rich, elitist, racist, Republican, for fighting 60 hrs a week to barely net $60k a year on $120k combined income with my wife. You will never know what its like to try and provide for my wife and 3 kids and maybe send them to college under opressive taxes. Its ignorant uneducated people like you that are helping to feed the flame in every Conservative Patriots heart. If we cant vote these socialists out because they have stolen to many of our liberties to give to jerks like you, then I promise I will fight to my last breath to throw you all out with my bare hands if thats what it takes.
[7] Their generosity with other peoples property and money is amoral and power seeking there is no morality or productivity required of the beneficiaries. They only want to use them to get votes to stay in power and it works, because they use their power to abuse people who actually work. It is a group of spoiled brats, immature people, and the entitled. They worship themselves and have a real need to control people. They are in love with power, and are usually, individually, very repugnant people. (Al Franken is a great example.)
[7] Their angle is to tell us acorn has to get money to help people get mortgages, Isnt that what banks are for? thats where I went.
[7] Or is this just another bait & switch ??? Take the attention off of what is happening in Congress. ACORN needs to be reeled in pronto! If they follow the money the libs in D.C. know they are up to their eyeballs in this corruption.
[7] The fact that ACORN was knocked down a few notches while everyone was watching cost Obama the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey. He needs the corrupt ACORN to ensure democrat victories in the 2010 election.
[7] Why do I believe this? Because Obama needs to get ACORN back up and running in time for the 2010 elections.
[7] Why doesnt anyone put 2 + 2 together. Obamas vast experience and claim to fame was his being a "cummunity organizer" with ACORN. Obama either learned from or taught ACORN. Now were starting to see what ACORN is really all about corruption, law breaking, financial scandals, liberal politics.
[7] Then Obama comes out smelling like roses and ACORN is given government funding again. I have no trust for this so called transparent administration.
[7] Exactly what I was just thinking! This is a scam to clear Acorn by Obama and his corrupt administration! I dont believe anything they say or the reasons behind what they do.
[7] I wonder if that former ACORN attorney (the one residing at 1600 pennsylvania Ave.) is sweating a little bit. I hope he is.
[7] Pamela Marple, an attorney for ACORN, acknowledged that the community activist group has been cooperating with a variety of governmental agencies in the past two months.
[3] "We were told that the AG's office has no criticisms of ACORN's cooperative efforts, but rather that the warrant was issued because of concern that former local ACORN staff members had and may intend in the future, to remove or alter electronic documents." [5] After CorSlime is gone from NJ next year, Chris Christie should have his AG go after these crooks in NJ too. It took a Community Organizer in the highest office of the land to expose ACORN.
[7] They gave acorn 1 year to wash the books, cook the balance sheets, crash computers and fired anyone that would rat them out and now they do the raid. Gee I bet acorn was real surprised of this well planned raid that of course will now find nothing. You cannot clean the garbage out when you have a low life racist pecker in the whitehouse with his ex street hooker ole lady who is now finally proud of the USA.
[7] For the reading comprehension impaired and there are a lot of you here the AG is investigating, per the story, allegations of embezzlement. That would mean ACORN is the victim and there might be evidence of the crime on computers there.
[7] Many of the individuals involved with ACORN 8 were fired from ACORN for demanding a forensic audit following an embezzlement scandal involving Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN co-founder Wade Rathke.
[7] News of the raid comes from Marcel Reid and her colleagues at ACORN 8, an association of former ACORN leaders and board members. [7] I bet the Republicans won by an even greater margin in Virginia and New Jersey when you factor in the fraudulent ACORN votes.
[7] You can raid ACORN today but you cant stop the growth of the minority vote/youth vote. Its just a cold hard fact of the numbers.
[7] Michael DeMocker/The Times-Picayune About 100 computers were taken from ACORN's local headquarters in a seizure that lasted most of the day Friday.
[5] Raiding the offices of ACORN is a great idea, but should have been done long before now. Those offices were probably "scrubbed" months ago.
[7] Really shouldnt all of Acorns office have been raided by now? If they find anything they get the double stupid award, shredding should have started weeks ago.
[7] Thank goodness we have honest prosecutors left in Louisiana! I hope they bag em all! Maybe Houston will do the same? That will help us defeat Sheila Jackson Lee
http://www.faulkforcongress.org/defeat-sheila-jac.. Well I hope all the little Acorns didnt fall too far from the tree!! It would be wonderful if they could just keep digging up all the little acorns that are buried.
[7] GOOD for them. I wonder how long until little obie (boy fake president) puts his opinion out on THIS??? After all, isnt acorn just so damn dear to his treacherous heart??? I hope it ALL falls down around him.
[7] I hope the ACORN criminals/Marxists end up in prison. They have damaged my city, my state and my country.
[7] Perhaps well get lucky and something will be found that ACORN failed to remember or shred. This is an orgainzation that should have been investigated a long, long time ago.
[7] I would love to think our laws are implemented, but Acorn has been allowed too much time since the video clips were shown on television to shread anything that could be damaging.
[7] Louisiana is not run by Eric Holder, so you dont need to worry about it being dropped. Bobby Jindal is not a Democrat and not a RINO either so you can expect that justice will be done to its fullest. Not before time, these criminals need to join the crowd in Gitmo along with the criminals that are controling congress right now.
[7] You really believe the young will come out and vote for someone who is about to force them into paying for health care that they dont even want? And even if they DO want it, you think they will enjoy being forced to pay and slapped with a fine if they dont want to pay it? Oh, are you in for a rude awakening.
[7] Do you honestly think these inner city idiots are smart enough to properly wipe a hard drive of data without leaving data traces or leaving signs of it being wiped? The FBI and Police will find quite a bit of data, it should be interesting to see what they find.
[7] The search warrant was necessary, Caldwell said, because '''they can'''t watch everybody.''''' [6] Its the one he represented and trained. What we really need to see is the FBI executing a search warrant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC. After that, seeing the Community-Organizer-in-Chief perp walked would end this week on a high note.
[7] It really burns me that my tax dollars have gone to this corrupt organization. They need to do a serious investigation into obamas contacts and shenanigans with them.
[7] ACORN Deputy Director of National Operations Brian Kettenring released a statement Friday noting that agency has been cooperating with a "variety of governmental entities across the country to provide" requested information and documents. [5] SOURCES1.
Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in La. : NPR2.
The Associated Press: Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in La.3.
Computers, Hard Drives Seized at ACORN's New Orleans Office - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.com4.
Raid on ACORN HQ in New Orleans | Washington Examiner5.
ACORN hard drives to be returned after data is copied by state investigators | New Orleans Metro Crime and Courts News - - NOLA.com6.
Big Government » Blog Archive » Federal Grand Jury Seeks Information from ACORN7.
Big Government » Blog Archive » BREAKING: ACORN's New Orleans Office Raided by Louisiana Attorney General8.
The Associated Press: Computers, records seized at ACORN offices in La.9.
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