Connie Hair: IRS Throws ACORN Under The Bus. I Say: GREAT.
IRS Throws ACORN Under the Bus
by Connie Hair
The IRS yesterday severed its ties with ACORN, the profoundly corrupt community organizing group embroiled in a seemingly never-ending string of controversies, criminal investigations and voter registration fraud charges. Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau also severed ties with the group.
The latest controversy is over the series of videos covertly taped by new media journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. In these videos, O’Keefe and Giles, posing as a pimp and prostitute, are given tax advice by ACORN representatives in different cities across the country.
The tax advice included listing “performance artist” as the prostitute’s employment code in order to file income taxes as part of a scheme to secure a loan, with ACORN’s help, to buy a house to be used as a brothel. ACORN employees didn’t flinch when the undercover journalists informed them they were trafficking in 12 underage El Salvadoran girls to work in the brothel. One helpful ACORN representative advised that they may be able to claim two or three of them as dependents.
According to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House Republican leader, ACORN had received upwards of $56 million in direct federal taxpayer funding since 1994. Boehner, Republican Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee with IRS oversight responsibilities, sent a letter to the IRS asking that the agency end its relationship with the group.
“For the second time in less than two weeks, a federal agency has severed its ties with ACORN,” Boehner said. “The IRS has rightly recognized that this troubled organization has no place advising hard-working Americans on tax-related matters.”
“ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and it is a victory for all taxpayers that the IRS has ended its association with this corrupt organization,” Cantor said.
“It is clear ACORN was using taxpayer funds to encourage others to engage in cheating the tax code,” Camp said. “The IRS made the right call and now it is time for the rest of the federal government to end any and all relationships with this corrupt organization.”
Now about that ACORN IRS tax-exempt status…
Barney Frank Throws ACORN under the Bus
On Fox News last night, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), told host Bill O’Reilly he would have voted for the ban on ACORN funding had he not missed the vote for the posthumous Medal of Honor ceremony for constituent Sgt. Jared Monti last week at the White House.
“I told the staffer who asked me that I would have been against the funding,” Frank said. “I said it imprecisely or he heard it imprecisely, and he heard it as I would have been against the motion. I would have voted for the recommittal motion and against the funding. … I think they have forfeited their right to get funds.”
In other news, a pig just flew by my window.
Meanwhile, back in the Senate...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) yesterday refused to investigate ACORN’s criminal activities and the sources of federal funding that ACORN and its affiliates receive. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with 27 other Republican Senators, asked the Majority Leader back on September 17th to start the investigation.
“Despite the fact that the U.S. Senate has at its disposal 20 committees, 68 subcommittees, and 4 joint committees, the Majority Leader has denied our request, stating he will not instruct Senate leaders ‘to do anything that would distract from efforts to address’ the issues currently before Congress,” Cornyn said. “Yet under the direction of this same Majority Leader, in conjunction with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congress has held more than 150 oversight hearings on Bush-era practices and activities -- transcribing more than 3,200 pages of witness testimony and printing more than 17,000 pages of unclassified, publicly available reports. For Majority Leader Reid, it seems that ‘oversight’ is a selective responsibility, and the misuse of taxpayer dollars by a fraud-ridden organization does not qualify as a priority in his purview as the Leader of the U.S. Senate.”
Editor's comment: if you want to laugh, check out ACORN's complaint.
What do I think?
This lawsuit is NOT going anywhere, UNLESS the Defendants countersue. I suspect ACORN will dismiss the lawsuit, because discovery in the case will reveal too many secrets ACORN wants to see hidden. If I were the Defendants' lawyer I will do exactly that much.
by Connie Hair
The IRS yesterday severed its ties with ACORN, the profoundly corrupt community organizing group embroiled in a seemingly never-ending string of controversies, criminal investigations and voter registration fraud charges. Last week, the U.S. Census Bureau also severed ties with the group.
The latest controversy is over the series of videos covertly taped by new media journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles. In these videos, O’Keefe and Giles, posing as a pimp and prostitute, are given tax advice by ACORN representatives in different cities across the country.
The tax advice included listing “performance artist” as the prostitute’s employment code in order to file income taxes as part of a scheme to secure a loan, with ACORN’s help, to buy a house to be used as a brothel. ACORN employees didn’t flinch when the undercover journalists informed them they were trafficking in 12 underage El Salvadoran girls to work in the brothel. One helpful ACORN representative advised that they may be able to claim two or three of them as dependents.
According to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the House Republican leader, ACORN had received upwards of $56 million in direct federal taxpayer funding since 1994. Boehner, Republican Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee with IRS oversight responsibilities, sent a letter to the IRS asking that the agency end its relationship with the group.
“For the second time in less than two weeks, a federal agency has severed its ties with ACORN,” Boehner said. “The IRS has rightly recognized that this troubled organization has no place advising hard-working Americans on tax-related matters.”
“ACORN has violated serious federal laws, and it is a victory for all taxpayers that the IRS has ended its association with this corrupt organization,” Cantor said.
“It is clear ACORN was using taxpayer funds to encourage others to engage in cheating the tax code,” Camp said. “The IRS made the right call and now it is time for the rest of the federal government to end any and all relationships with this corrupt organization.”
Now about that ACORN IRS tax-exempt status…
Barney Frank Throws ACORN under the Bus
On Fox News last night, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), told host Bill O’Reilly he would have voted for the ban on ACORN funding had he not missed the vote for the posthumous Medal of Honor ceremony for constituent Sgt. Jared Monti last week at the White House.
“I told the staffer who asked me that I would have been against the funding,” Frank said. “I said it imprecisely or he heard it imprecisely, and he heard it as I would have been against the motion. I would have voted for the recommittal motion and against the funding. … I think they have forfeited their right to get funds.”
In other news, a pig just flew by my window.
Meanwhile, back in the Senate...
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) yesterday refused to investigate ACORN’s criminal activities and the sources of federal funding that ACORN and its affiliates receive. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with 27 other Republican Senators, asked the Majority Leader back on September 17th to start the investigation.
“Despite the fact that the U.S. Senate has at its disposal 20 committees, 68 subcommittees, and 4 joint committees, the Majority Leader has denied our request, stating he will not instruct Senate leaders ‘to do anything that would distract from efforts to address’ the issues currently before Congress,” Cornyn said. “Yet under the direction of this same Majority Leader, in conjunction with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congress has held more than 150 oversight hearings on Bush-era practices and activities -- transcribing more than 3,200 pages of witness testimony and printing more than 17,000 pages of unclassified, publicly available reports. For Majority Leader Reid, it seems that ‘oversight’ is a selective responsibility, and the misuse of taxpayer dollars by a fraud-ridden organization does not qualify as a priority in his purview as the Leader of the U.S. Senate.”
Editor's comment: if you want to laugh, check out ACORN's complaint.
What do I think?
This lawsuit is NOT going anywhere, UNLESS the Defendants countersue. I suspect ACORN will dismiss the lawsuit, because discovery in the case will reveal too many secrets ACORN wants to see hidden. If I were the Defendants' lawyer I will do exactly that much.
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