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If Louisiana GOP Sen. David Vitter wants criminal probes of embattled community activist group ACORN for dealing with a phony hooker ring, then maybe he should be investigated for dealing with a real one, argues Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington.
In a complaint filed with the Louisiana state bar officials, where Vitter is admitted, CREW says that Vitter admitted dealings with the DC Madam, and that other prostitutes claim he’s called them. They want an investigation.
“Sen. Vitter’s zeal to see ACORN criminally investigated for offering advice in setting up a prostitution ring reminded me he has yet to be held accountable for his own role in a prostitution ring,” said CREW leader Melanie Sloan. “While ACORN’s conduct is indefensible, so is Sen. Vitter’s and what is good for the goose is good for the gander.”

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Prostitution complaint filed against Vitter By Susan Crabtree – 09/29/09 11:51 AM ET A watchdog group has filed a complaint against Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) with the Louisiana Office of Disciplinary Counsel accusing Vitter of violating the state’s rules of professional conduct for lawyers by soliciting prostitutes.The complaint, filed by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), comes in response to Vitter’s support for an investigation into ACORN, a liberal community-organizing group. Two employees at ACORN’s Baltimore, Md., branch were caught on tape allegedly offering advice to a pair posing as a pimp and prostitute on setting up a prostitution ring and evading the IRS. The tapes were revealed in mid-September.The Justice Department’s inspector general has launched an investigation into any DOJ grants ACORN has received and whether the money was properly overseen. Last week the Senate and the House both passed bills aimed at preventing ACORN from receiving federal dollars. Vitter has been a vocal critic of ACORN since the damaging tapes surfaced.In 2007, media reports revealed that Vitter wa …

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Vitter Seeks Investigation of ACORN for Assisting Fake Prostitution Ring; CREW Seeks Investigation of Vitter for Role in Real Prostitution Ring
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In 2007, it was revealed that Sen. Vitter’s telephone number was included in the so-called “D.C. Madam,” Deborah Jeane Palfrey’s, list of client telephone numbers. The senator confirmed he had sought Ms. Palfrey’s services, saying in a statement, “this was a very serious sin in my past for which I am, of course, completely responsible.” Two other women also alleged Sen. Vitter had engaged the services of prostitutes. Jeanette Maier, the “Canal Street Madam,” claimed Sen. Vitter visited the New Orleans brothel several times in the mid-1990s. In addition, a woman who worked as a prostitute under the name of Wendy Cortez said Sen. Vitter was a regular client of hers between July and November 1999.

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But it has a long history of quickly responding to its weaknesses. After the videotape prank by two young right-wing activists, ACORN’s CEO Bertha Lewis quickly dismissed the offending employees caught on those videotapes giving tax advice and homeownership advice to a young man and woman pretending to be a pimp and prostitute. Although no tax or loan documents were prepared or filed and ACORN’s management oversight mitigated any further harm from taking place, Lewis worked with ACORN’s advisory council, a group of eminent progressives, including Maryland’s former Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, John Podesta and Andy Stern. The group appointed an outside auditor who will help recommend and implement necessary internal reforms. This week, a former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger was named to oversee the internal review.

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Group wants investigation of Vitter
Associated Press – September 29, 2009 12:44 PM ET
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A Washington-based public watchdog group says it has asked Louisiana’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel to investigate Sen. David Vitter, an attorney, for allegedly soliciting prostitutes.
The bar complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington arises from Vitter’s admission of a “serious sin” in 2007 after his phone number appeared in records of a Washington prostitution ring. Vitter has refused to discuss details or answer questions about the matter. He has denied subsequent allegations of involvement with prostitutes in New Orleans.
The Baton Rouge-based Office of Disciplinary Counsel, which reviews lawyer conduct, did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday. Vitter’s office was expected to issue a statment later Tuesday.

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Bourbon Street where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock ‘n’ roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard.
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Bourbon Street — where Dixieland jazz competes with karaoke bars, rock ‘n’ roll cover bands and strip club jukeboxes — is also one of the first places in America where opera was heard.
Now, it’s being heard there again, with a New Orleans-style twist.
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“We’re bringing opera back to Bourbon Street,” said Beth Ables, general manager of the Inn, which offers a typical study in French Quarter contrasts: As elegant as any of the nearby art galleries or antique shops, it sits near a row of strip clubs and across the street from a huge sign advertising “3-for-1″ drink specials.

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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, September 25, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The liberal community-based organization ACORN, which was recently disgraced by a series of undercover videos showing illegal activity by the group’s employees, is now suing the young pro-life duo who shot the videos. 
Defendant James O’Keefe, 25, who is being sued together with 20-year-old investigative partner Hannah Giles, is known among the pro-life community for conducting sting operations against Planned Parenthood in conjunction with Live Action Films.  In one such investigation, O’Keefe caught a Planned Parenthood employee accepting a donation earmarked for the abortion of a black child.
Earlier this month the pair published videos of their visits to ACORN offices in five different jurisdictions, dressed as a pimp and his underage girlfriend-prostitute seeking a loan.  Employees in the videos coached the flamboyantly-dressed pair in their endeavor to open a secret brothel complete with El Salvadorean child prostitutes, and to launder the ill-gotten funds for the pimp’s future congressional campaign. 

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The controversy over the community-organizing group ACORN is widening as the Treasury Departments Inspector General for Tax Administration has agreed to investigate the political activities of some of the groups tax-exempt affiliates.
TIGTA Inspector General J. Russell George wrote a letter to Congressman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, saying his office would investigate the group in response to a letter from Issa and his colleague, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. ACORN, short for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, has been in hot water in recent weeks after hidden camera videos emerged showing employees giving advice to a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute on how to falsify their tax returns and claim some fictitious underage prostitutes from El Salvador as dependents.

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ACORN—the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now—is stinking up Washington. And this is far more significant than if a suspiciously large number of operatives for a purely “private” outfit had been found systematically bending and breaking the law, because ACORN receives and spends taxpayer money—lots of it—and had carried the imprimatur of official partnerships with the IRS, the Census Bureau … the kind of “cred” that in the political world comes only from “who you know.”
Yes, ACORN has friends in high places—friends who are still stonewalling attempts to trace where all that tax money went … perhaps because they know who still has cookie crumbs all over their hands.
It didn’t start with those undercover videos made by a couple of independent filmmakers posing as a prostitute and her pimp, visiting various ACORN offices around the country and getting helpful advice on how to hide their income and “qualify” for a tax-subsidized mortgage to set up a house of ill repute, declaring three of their dozen (albeit imaginary) underage illegal immigrant prostitutes as “dependents.”

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Any doubt about the nuttiness of ACORN is dispelled by its decision to sue the makers of the videos that proved so embarrassing — and ultimately costly — to the community-organizing group. Don’t they know that when you get caught doing something wrong, it helps not to call more attention to your idiocy? Or to try to blame others for your shortcomings?
The multi-million-dollar lawsuit came just as I was beginning to feel a smidgen of sympathy for the beleaguered group. After all, it seems to have done, by some accounts, some good deeds. And it was already reeling from the fallout caused by the sting videos showing ACORN workers advising conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute on how to conduct their unsavory (not to mention illegal) business. Congress banned federal funding to the group and both the federal Census Bureau and the IRS severed their ties.

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