Matthew Vadum
President Obama announced he plans to nominate Patrick Corvington to be chief executive of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America. My readers will remember that “the Corporation” assumed a…
ACORN appears to have been involved in improper use of pension funds and this lawbreaking may yet land some of its officials in serious legal difficulties. That’s according to F. Vincent Vernuccio, formerly a special assistant at the U.S. Department…
The Service Employees International Union’s Anna Burger shocked political observers last week when she told a congressional hearing that her union “cut all ties to ACORN.” Burger’s statement came days before Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell announced yesterday that former…
The Louisiana attorney general’s office says the embezzlement at ACORN years ago involved $5 million, not the originally reported figure of close to $1 million, according to BigGovernment.com which cites a report from NOLA.com. The $5 million figure is reportedly…
Following up on my post over the weekend, the New Orleans headquarters of ACORN is closing and the property itself, a former funeral home, is up for sale. ACORN insiders told me after the news above went out that the…
Kyle Olson of ACORNcracked.com has more thoughts and evidence at BigGovernment.com on the connection between Obama White House political director Patrick Gaspard and ACORN. Gaspard used to be ACORN boss Bertha Lewis’s political director when she ran ACORN’s New York chapter….
ACORN is shutting its New Orleans headquarters down and laying off all staff there. Major layoffs are also planned for ACORN’s offices in Washington, D.C., and New York City. ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson denied it yesterday and told me I…
“But whether you try to implement some or all of these recommendations, there must be someone committed to follow-up. There must be a review mechanism, and a means of holding people accountable after any final decisions are made. If you…
Why is ACORN’s chief organizer friendly with the Marxist anti-American governments of two South American countries? Within ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis’s storied rogues gallery of a rolodex may be found contact information for then-Bolivian ambassador Gustavo Guzman and for Sabine…
One thing that journalists don’t seem to get about ACORN is that it is a strange, complex creature with tentacles that reach into the highest levels of the United States government, the Democratic Party, corporate America, the labor movement, the…
