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The Spectacle Blog
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was fined the maximum of $5,000 in Las Vegas today for its role in a massive voter fraud conspiracy.
Judge Donald Mosley said if an individual, as opposed to a corporation, had been before him, he would have handed down a 10-year prison sentence. “And I wouldn’t have thought twice about it,” he said, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Mosley criticized ACORN for making a “mockery” of America’s electoral process. “This isn’t a banana republic,” he said.
In April ACORN pleaded guilty to felony-level unlawful compensation for registration of voters. With the full knowledge of upper management, ACORN illegally offered cash bonuses to its voter registration canvassers in a scheme called “Blackjack.” Canvassers received extra money if they hit the magic number of 21 registrations in a day. (ACORN, predictably, denies its upper echelon knew anything about the scheme.)
The organized crime syndicate, which used to employ President Obama, probably won’t pay a cent of the fine. That’s because ACORN, the shell corporation that ran the corrupt ACORN network, is in bankruptcy.
Senior ACORN executives Amy Adele Busefink and Christopher Howell Edwards were also convicted for their roles in the scheme. ACORN cared so little about the conspiracy that its voter mobilization division, Project Vote, put Busefink in charge of the group’s national get-out-the-vote drive in 2010 while she was under indictment in Nevada.
Mickey Mouse, Mary Poppins, and various celebrities living and dead have been registered to vote over and over again precisely because ACORN has been allowed to get away with polluting the nation’s voter rolls for so long.
As I report in my new book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers at least 54 ACORN employees and individuals associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud. Voter fraud is a blanket term coined by lawyers. It refers to fraudulent voting, identify fraud, perjury, voter registration fraud, forgery, and a variety of crimes related to the electoral process.
Significantly, this is the first time ACORN itself, as opposed to its individual employees, has been convicted of a crime.
But this is not the first time that ACORN has found itself in legal hot water.
Judicial Watch recently uncovered massive voter fraud by ACORN in Colorado and ACORN settled a racketeering lawsuit in Ohio out of court last year and agreed to leave the state. In the settlement with the Buckeye Institute’s 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, ACORN agreed to “cease all Ohio activity” and surrender all its state business licenses.
ACORN crimes committed in various states could give rise to a federal racketeering prosecution. Such action seems unlikely given that ACORN operatives now run the White House (and the Democratic National Committee).
All of ACORN’s crimes are exhaustively documented in Subversion Inc.
Despite the bankruptcy filing, ACORN continues to operate. Project Vote and ACORN’s mortgage bubble generator ACORN Housing (renamed Affordable Housing Centers of America) are still is business. ACORN’s state chapters now operate under assumed names such as Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, New York Communities for Change, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, and Action United (Pennsylvania).
ACORN officials openly acknowledge the network is restructuring and will re-emerge soon to help reelect President Obama in 2012.
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Conservative Bob| 8.10.11 @ 2:48PM
That is a real deterrent????
I know that this is the max allowed but it way too low. Our electoral process is one of the central pillars of republic. Public confidence in the system as a whole is what facilitates the peaceful transition of power. All efforts to undermine the integrity of the vote or to deprive individuals of their right to vote should face significant penalties.
Given the amount of money the dems funnel into Acorn and others this is less than a slap on the wrist.
PattyMor| 8.10.11 @ 2:56PM
$5,000 is chump change and NO DETERRENT.
USSAlabama| 8.10.11 @ 3:20PM
A corporation is an entity, same as a person is.
Maybe the judge deemed it to frustrating to determine who -all- would have to serve that time.
Al Adab| 8.10.11 @ 3:47PM
Do we think that this had any effect on the re-election of Sen. Reid? Fraud and illegal voting, who would have thought?
Pelligrino| 8.11.11 @ 1:49AM
AA, exactly. And as this "landmark?!!" ruling comes a full 10 months after the November 2010 elections, it gets s-w-i-f-t-l-y brushed aside.
So...10 months later? What does it matter?
Doesn't change one thing. (or am I just naively unaware?)
$5,000 is a little more than what one pays for a year's worth of (serious) college textbooks. Pocket change. No worries; Georgie Soros or a deep pocketed fellow traveller will fill the $$ void.
We need these apes behind bars with felony charges -- felony charges hanging over their heads on this earth until they die.
Thank you, Mr. Vadum, for keeping your eye on this and reporting faithfully here to us.
Voter fraud in America is HUGE. And it is not just "Acorns" doing it.
Too Many Tims| 8.10.11 @ 4:15PM
"No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country."
Oldefarte| 8.10.11 @ 4:41PM
And wait, is Acorn a Republican or a Democrat party invention? Its truly sad that this crap is/has been occurring [and most semi-intelligents should be aware of same] and there are still individuals out ther proclaiming the equality of both parties for corruption. The stupidty of same is the sole reason why the current Democrats running our government was elected in November of 2008. Forrest [sadly] was accurate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob Grant| 8.10.11 @ 4:54PM
I try to avoid hate as much as possible but this group tests that restraint to the limit. The leaders of this group cynically uses it's Protected Class status at every opportunity as they intimidate, push the boundaries of the law, instruct it's clients to work the system for all it's worth, and purvey in the most vicious hate themselves.
The root of many of the problems our country faces today can be traced right back to group such as this, the most formidable of them all.
WARNING: They are gearing up for their most egregious offense of them all:
The theft of next year's election!!!
What will we do to prevent this??
God bless James O'keefe!
simon templar| 8.10.11 @ 6:23PM
Charge them 5,000 thousand dollars I would suppose and then swear in the fraudulently elected candidate.
simon templar| 8.10.11 @ 6:24PM
That is 5 thousand...and a stern look.
simon templar| 8.10.11 @ 6:21PM
Well, if they established massive voter fraud then why are these elections not being challenged? If GD dems in Wisconsin can call for recalls then what the hell is wrong with republicans doing so, especially when they have proof of fraud?
That is the REAL story.
Bob Grant| 8.10.11 @ 6:54PM
Isn't that handled through the court system? An ACORN friendly court system? Good luck with that.
Oldefarte| 8.11.11 @ 11:35AM
The reason why the Rs don't dispute elections is because they know that the Ds have controlling/majoritive voter-numbers. In your referenced Wisconsin recalls, the $30 MILLION that the Ds wasted on their recalls resulted in zip/nada since they did not take back control of Wisc's senate from Rs. The Ds are STUPID/ARROGANT radicals who will stop at nothing to attempt to capture control over government, whereas Rs are at least intelligent enough to know the uselessness of an expensive fight that will ultimately be lost without the majoritive numbers required. THAT IS PRECISELY WHY NEXT YEAR'S NOVEMBER ELECTIONS ARE CRITICAL, IN ORDER TO GIVE R'S MAJORITIVE CONTROL OF THE US SENATE AND WHITE HOUSE [AND THEREAFTER TO INSTITUTE THE CONSERVATIVE CHANGES THAT ALL OF US CONSERVATIVES WISH FOR]!!!!!!!
Tony in Central PA| 8.10.11 @ 9:54PM
$5,000 fine ? That's almost as bad as Dean Wormer's dreaded Double Secret Probation.
guthriej| 8.11.11 @ 12:42PM
I look forward to a marriage between ACORN and the New Black Panther Party.