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The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform published a (Minority) Staff Report on July 23, 2009 entitled "Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As A Criminal Enterprise?"
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the main investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. It has authority to investigate the subjects within the Committee?s legislative jurisdiction as well as ?any matter? within the jurisdiction of the other standing House Committees. The Committee?s mandate is to investigate and expose waste, fraud and abuse.
No one thought much of it at the time. Very few read it. It never made the national press. In hindsight, everyone should have paid attention.
Right now there are a number of criminal investigators, state agencies, federal agencies, church groups, charitable foundations, etc. furiously investigating ACORN and others just as furiously attempting to find something, anything, to defend them.
The organization willing to counsel and advise the establishment of a child prostitution business, enable the trafficking of 13 - 15 year old Latina girls and aid and abet tax fraud in at least five national offices has more on their plate.
Highlighted in the report:
* ACORN has evaded taxes, obstructed justice, engaged in self dealing, and aided and abetted a cover-up of the $948.607.50 embezzlement by Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke.
* ACORN has committed investment fraud, deprived the public of its right to honest services, and engaged in a racketeering enterprise affecting interstate commerce.
* ACORN has committed a conspiracy to defraud the United States by using taxpayer funds for partisan political activities.
* ACORN has submitted false filings to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Labor, in addition to violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
* ACORN falsified and concealed facts concerning an illegal transaction between related parties in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
I took the time to read this 88 page report over a couple of cappuccinos this morning.
Reading reports like this makes for a fine start to the day.
Want to join me in reading tomorrow's headlines today?
Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?
The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is the main investigative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. It has authority to investigate the subjects within the Committee?s legislative jurisdiction as well as ?any matter? within the jurisdiction of the other standing House Committees. The Committee?s mandate is to investigate and expose waste, fraud and abuse.
No one thought much of it at the time. Very few read it. It never made the national press. In hindsight, everyone should have paid attention.
Right now there are a number of criminal investigators, state agencies, federal agencies, church groups, charitable foundations, etc. furiously investigating ACORN and others just as furiously attempting to find something, anything, to defend them.
The organization willing to counsel and advise the establishment of a child prostitution business, enable the trafficking of 13 - 15 year old Latina girls and aid and abet tax fraud in at least five national offices has more on their plate.
Highlighted in the report:
* ACORN has evaded taxes, obstructed justice, engaged in self dealing, and aided and abetted a cover-up of the $948.607.50 embezzlement by Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke.
* ACORN has committed investment fraud, deprived the public of its right to honest services, and engaged in a racketeering enterprise affecting interstate commerce.
* ACORN has committed a conspiracy to defraud the United States by using taxpayer funds for partisan political activities.
* ACORN has submitted false filings to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Labor, in addition to violating the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
* ACORN falsified and concealed facts concerning an illegal transaction between related parties in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
I took the time to read this 88 page report over a couple of cappuccinos this morning.
Reading reports like this makes for a fine start to the day.
Want to join me in reading tomorrow's headlines today?
Is ACORN Intentionally Structured As a Criminal Enterprise?