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ACORN's Tangled Money Tree

By Matthew Vadum on 10.31.08 @ 6:08AM

Getting out the vote has never been such a racket.

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The newspaper also interviewed George Hampton and Cleo Mata, two former Project Vote board members. Both denied serving on the board and Hampton, who acknowledged he had been an ACORN member, said he had never heard of Project Vote.

Ironically, Rathke condemned interlocking directorates in the corporate world. In 1980, he endorsed the proposed "Corporate Democracy Act" which would have fined directors up to $10,000 per day for "serving more than two corporations" simultaneously. (Heritage Foundation backgrounder, March 11, 1980)

Go figure.

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Matthew Vadum is an award-winning investigative journalist at a conservative watchdog group in Washington, D.C. Vadum is also author of Subversion Inc: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

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John Oliver| 10.31.08 @ 11:20AM

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rickyb| 10.31.08 @ 1:55PM

Let's hope charges come out of this mess for the people responsible for the corruption within ACORN and its effect on our economy and fair voting processes our country demands.

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Capital Research Center: links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…notorious secretary of state, Jennifer Brunner, who openly defied federal election law last fall in accordance with ACORN’s wishes, is running for the U.S. Senate. as I recounted in the American Spectator. BlinkList | del.icio.us | Digg it | Furl | ma.gnolia | Yahoo | Google | StumbleUpon This entry was posted on Tuesday,…

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Biased PolitiFact.com Covers for ACORN, Attacks Michele Bachmann | Got Access News links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…needed to transform poor communities" And ACORN Housing discloses in its tax returns that it received more than $18 million in federal money from 1997 through 2006. Given the constant, well-documented shifting of funds within the nebulous ACORN network, how can Farley say with a straight face after his superficial examination of the facts that he knows for certain that federal tax dollars were not shifted…

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Community-Organized Crime Acorn Inside Out « Stop Socialism Now links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…from accountability by multiple layers of volunteers and compensated employees who serve as pawns to take the fall for every bad act.” The report examines the ACORN network’s abusive interlocking directorates, and claims that the group deliberately organized itself to escape legal and public scrutiny. “ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal…

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ACORN’S Useful Idiots | America Watches Obama links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…if federal funds were involved in ACORN’s electoral crime spree because ACORN’s finances are so incredibly convoluted. ACORN’s affiliates routinely write each other huge checks, moving money around like a South American drug lord. In Conason’s view, ACORN is such a wonderful, honest, organization that when its officials discovered cases of voter registration fraud, “they informed…

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Big Government » Blog Archive » ACORN’S Enron-Style Accounting: Playing Musical Chair links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…more than two corporations” simultaneously. (Heritage Foundation backgrounder, March 11, 1980) Go figure. (This article is an updated version of an article originally published by the American Spectator .) Email this to a friend | Print | Share on Facebook | Tweet this | Tags: ACORN, ACORN International Inc., Affiliated Media/Foundation Movement, American Institute for Social Justice Inc., American…

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Prayer, News and Action » Uncategorized » ACORN’S Enron-Style Accounting: Playing Mus links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…for “serving more than two corporations” simultaneously. (Heritage Foundation backgrounder, March 11, 1980) Go figure. (This article is an updated version of an article originally published by the American Spectator .) View article… Post Published: 25 September 2009 Author: admin Found in section: Uncategorized Previous Topic: ‘Pioneer of Guerrilla Marketing,’ Specialist in ‘Leveraging’ Arts Community…

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In the News « links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…News Release: 1851 Center Advises House Committee Modifying Mortgage Contracts Unconstitutional Miller v. ACORN Human Events: Ohio Secretary of State Linked to ACORN, Project Vote American Spectator: ACORN’s Tangled Money Tree Middletown Journal: ACORN sued on behalf of 2 Warren County voters WCPO TV-9: Lawsuit Filed Against ACORN In Warren County WCMH TV-4: ACORN Defends Efforts Amid Voter-Fraud…

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1851 in the News « links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…News Release: 1851 Center Advises House Committee Modifying Mortgage Contracts Unconstitutional Miller v. ACORN Human Events: Ohio Secretary of State Linked to ACORN, Project Vote American Spectator: ACORN’s Tangled Money Tree Middletown Journal: ACORN sued on behalf of 2 Warren County voters WCPO TV-9: Lawsuit Filed Against ACORN In Warren County WCMH TV-4: ACORN Defends Efforts Amid Voter-Fraud Allegations…

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1851 In the News « Ohio Law Blog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…News Release: 1851 Center Advises House Committee Modifying Mortgage Contracts Unconstitutional Miller v. ACORN Human Events: Ohio Secretary of State Linked to ACORN, Project Vote American Spectator: ACORN’s Tangled Money Tree Middletown Journal: ACORN sued on behalf of 2 Warren County voters WCPO TV-9: Lawsuit Filed Against ACORN In Warren County WCMH TV-4: ACORN Defends Efforts Amid Voter-Fraud…

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In the News links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…News Release: 1851 Center Advises House Committee Modifying Mortgage Contracts Unconstitutional Miller v. ACORN Human Events: Ohio Secretary of State Linked to ACORN, Project Vote American Spectator: ACORN’s Tangled Money Tree Middletown Journal: ACORN sued on behalf of 2 Warren County voters WCPO TV-9: Lawsuit Filed Against ACORN In Warren County WCMH TV-4: ACORN Defends Efforts Amid Voter-Fraud…

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