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.
