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The group’s reputation, such as it was, went into the tank earlier this month with the public release of undercover videos showing employees of ACORN offices in Baltimore and other cities giving tax and mortgage loan advice to James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, two young conservative activists posing as a pimp and a hooker, on how to legally open a brothel housing fictional underage illegal immigrant prostitutes from El Salvador. The undercover sting (see video) has proven enormously embarrassing to the entire ACORN organization, so much so that even partisan Democrats on Capitol Hill such as Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., now want little to do with the group. ACORN, rather than own up to its flouting of the law, responded yesterday by announcing it had filed a lawsuit in Maryland district court in Baltimore against Mr. O’Keefe (among other parties), and would file a similar action in California next week.

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The Treasury Department’s inspector general is looking into the government’s oversight of tax-exempt organizations like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or Acorn, when they engage in political activities. The office of Representative Darrell Issa, Republican of California, disclosed the inspector general’s decision amid a controversy over videotapes of Acorn employees offering advice about how to establish a brothel with under-age prostitutes. Separately, Acorn employees and volunteers have been involved in a number of voter registration fraud cases. Many of the group’s offices are in heavily Democratic inner city neighborhoods. Acorn, the parent entity, is not tax exempt, but dozens of affiliates around the country that receive the bulk of the organization’s money are tax exempt. Mr. Issa and Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, requested that the inspector general look into the Internal Revenue Service’s handling of any political activities conducted by Acorn.

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Two young conservative activists, one posing as a hooker and the other as her pimp, made up a wild story for their expose. They secretly videoed ACORN officials giving them advice on how to obtain child tax credits for underage immigrant escorts, and other ways to make government work.
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(2 of 2) “You have to have a name and a (tax) code number,” an ACORN official said.”A code for prostitution?” asked the “pimp.”Flipping through her tax code cheat-sheet, the ACORN official decided the nonexistent underage hookers should probably just call themselves “artists” for tax purposes. “Performance artists,” she said.Republicans shrieked, because more than $50 million of tax money has gone to ACORN. So 88 senators, Republicans and Democrats, voted to cut ACORN from the government teat.The whole thing has been an embarrassment for President Barack Obama, whose connection to ACORN goes back decades, to his days as a community organizer in Chicago.”Are there folks in the Democratic camp or on the left …

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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has been in boiling water lately for far sexier charges. Conservative filmmakers James O’Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, posed, respectively, as a pimp and prostitute. Then, on hidden camera, they captured ACORN staffers from Brooklyn to Baltimore to San Bernardino advising them how to open a brothel and staff it with smuggled, underage illegal aliens. (The culprits on ACORN’s staff have been sacked.) Evidence that ACORN ignored its tax obligations may be less exciting than bordellos and voter-registration fraud, for the latter of which some ACORN workers have been convicted. However, these tax documents show that ACORN is not just rotten at its eastern and western edges. The group’s lawlessness begins at its Big Easy national headquarters. (Oddly enough, ACORN also counts New York and Washington, D.C. among its three HQs.)

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Maryland
ACORN video actress interned at Mooneys journalism program
MARYLAND Hannah Giles, who pretended to be a prostitute seeking advice from the group ACORN, interned this summer at the National Journalism Center, whose executive director is state Sen. Alex X. Mooney.
Were proud of her, Mooney, R-Frederick/Washington, said Thursday.
Giles and James OKeefe III, portraying a pimp, caused a stir with their undercover videos that apparently show ACORN workers in different cities giving advice on illegal activities, such as running a prostitution business and trafficking teenagers from Central America.
After the videos circulated, Congress blocked federal funding to ACORN, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
Mooney said Giles worked on the ACORN project on her own, outside of her internship, but told people at the National Journalism Center about it after she and OKeefe made their first few videos.

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The troubled activist group ACORN is filing a lawsuit against a conservative activist who put controversial undercover videos taken in ACORN offices online. ACORN has come under fire since the videos were released. The videos apparently show ACORN employees in Maryland instructing two people posing as a pimp and prostitute on how to start a brothel.  ACORN says the employees were taped without their consent, which is illegal. ACORN has lost federal funding as a result of the scandal and the IRS has said the organization is out of the volunteer tax assistance program.

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… The fact that people who were improperly registered to vote did not actually cast ballots in no way excuses the organization’s failure to exercise better control in this way,” he said. “Further, the motivation of those who went to ACORN offices and initiated the discussions involving prostitution are wholly irrelevant to the fact that ACORN’s employees’ actions were outrageous and further indication of an organization that is at best poorly run in many regards. The defense against sting operations is not to ban them, but to behave properly so that they do not reveal as they did in this case clear evidence of gross impropriety.”
But Reid doesn’t have to the time for hearings into what’s going on with an organization that’s been accused of voter fraud and caught on video helping clients set up a house for child prostitutes (but evidently, Pelosi does).

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Posted: Sept. 24, 2009
Headlines: IRS cuts ties with ACORN amid controversy
Compiled from Free Press news services
ACORN SCANDAL: IRS cuts ties with group mired in controversy
The Internal Revenue Service terminated its relationship with ACORN after its employees were shown on videotape advising people posing as a pimp and prostitute how to cheat on their taxes.
The agency said in a statement Wednesday that it decided to end its relationship with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now so taxpayers can “have trust in our Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program partners.”
LOCKERBIE BOMBER: Release of terrorist renounced
The U.S. Senate unanimously condemned last month’s release of the Libyan terrorist convicted in Pan Am bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 and called upon Libya to apologize for celebrating his return.

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ACORN, the embattled antipoverty advocacy group, took another hit yesterday as a second government agency cut off ties.
Joining the Census Bureau, the Internal Revenue Service said it is ending its relationship with ACORN in a tax assistance program that offered free advice to low- and moderate-income taxpayers.
The IRS said ACORN, which is embroiled in a scandal after employees were captured on hidden-camera video giving advice to a couple who were posing as a prostitute and her pimp, provided help on about 25,000 returns.
ACORN, however, said it had already suspended its tax program during an investigation being led by former Massachusetts attorney general Scott Harshbarger, raising questions about who broke up with whom.
The group released a letter, dated Monday, from chief executive Bertha Lewis to the IRS saying the group would “revisit our participation in your programs’’ after it resolves its problems.

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The community group’s Washington lobbying shop has been quietly meeting with sympathetic congressional offices, reminding them that ACORN’s services help low-income residents of urban areas. On the legal front, the group is playing hardball, filing a lawsuit Wednesday against the conservative activists who produced the now famous undercover film in which a fake pimp and prostitute ask for tax advice at an ACORN office.
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Democrats have long brushed off criticism of ACORN – Conyers once vowed to investigate, then reversed that promise. But these videos portraying a fake pimp asking for tax advice, however, were hard to ignore. They have been a viral sensation in Washington and nationwide — even prompting comment from President Barack Obama during his Sunday television blitz. James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, conservative filmmakers, posed as an aspiring politician and his prostitute girlfriend ,who said planned to use brothel earnings to fund a future political campaign. ACORN employees were shown in the video giving advice ranging from burying the money in a tin can in the backyard to registering fictitious company names to legitimize the enterprise.

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