ACORN embezzlement was $5 million, LA attorney general said

By Robert Travis Scott October 05, 2009

Louisiana’s attorney general has broadened the scope of an investigation of ACORN to include a possible embezzlement of $5 million a decade ago within the community organization, five times more than previously reported.

ACORN Chief Executive Officer Bertha Lewis said the new reported amount is “completely false.”

Attorney […]

Amid new ACORN scandals, lawsuit revives an old one

By: David Freddoso Washington Examiner Commentary Staff Writer 09/30/09

The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch has filed two Freedom of Information lawsuits, one of which could re-open the strange case of alleged embezzlement in which ACORN’s founder and former chief organizer kept an embezzlement scandal “in the family.”

Ten years ago, Dale Rathke, the […]

How to fight poverty and live like a king

Thomas Lifson American Thinker September 27, 2009

The image of ACORN as a racketeering organization just got another boost from court records revealed in the New York Post. Dale Rathke, brother of the founder Wade Rathke was charging lavish spending to the family business.

Ginger Adams Otis of the Post reports:

American Express filed a […]

ACORN funded political groups

SunshineReview.org reported today:

September 25, 2009

Before ACORN’s change in leadership to Bertha Lewis, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now transferred several million dollars in charitably donated and government money to groups with political and corporate missions, documents show.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released an analysis by his tax staff on Thursday […]

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