The Many Names of ACORN, A “Big Shell Game”
Please read this article by Carol D. Leonnig, “ACORN Funded Political, For-Profit Efforts, Data Show,” The Washington Post (September 25, 2009)
Documents released by a Senate Republican on Thursday show that leaders of the ACORN community organizing network transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money meant for the poor to arms of the group that have political and sometimes profit-making missions.
ACORN’s tax-exempt groups and allied organizations, long a target of conservative ire, used more than half their charitable and public money in 2006 to pay other ACORN affiliates, according to an analysis by the tax staff of Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).
Posted: September 25th, 2009 under ACORN, Newsworthy.
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