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DE ACORN responds to video backlash
By Peter MacArthur
Video showing employees of the group ACORN telling a couple posing as a prostitute and a pimp how to lie to get government help, is hitting home in Delaware.
Delaware ACORN is suspending new intakes for services ranging from benefits to
foreclosure help. They’re also putting on hold, free hand outs of fire extinguishers and
smoke detectors. Delaware ACORN head organizer Darlene Battle says the backlash has been
harsh for a group that’s given much to the state in its six years here.
One of ACORN’s major roles is getting people who live in lower income areas,
registered to vote. Efforts in Congress to cut federal purse strings to the group have
been met with resistance by Democrats who get support from ACORN.

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One expects better from self-styled progressives.
By Deroy Murdock
ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis told Fox News Sunday on September 20 that her group “absolutely pays its taxes.” But her claim crumbles before the $548,213.25 federal tax lien that the Internal Revenue Service filed against the embattled New Orleans-based activist organization. Louisiana state tax officials also have slapped $334,121.43 in tax liens on ACORN since last October 29.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.

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I watched in horror as two ACORN employees, captured on audio and video, encouraged a young woman pretending to be a prostitute and her male companion, also an actor, to continue prostitution, and told them not disclose to their occupations in order to secure a loan for the purchase of a home. At this house, young teenagers from a South American country, illegal immigrants, would be moved into the home and would be prostitutes, as well. And to top all off, they were told not to file income taxes.

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After pursuing the group for nearly 10 years, federal prosecutors finally secured indictments against them in June using federal racketeering laws that were created to pursue organized crime groups like the Mafia.
Hawk, Sisk, and the Williams brothers have been charged with racketeering and running a chop shop, while 19 other men and women are accused of associated crimes.
The attorneys representing Hawk, Sisk and the Williams brothers either declined to comment or didn’t return phone calls.
The records unsealed in federal court show the FBI had been pursuing the group since the 2001 inception of the “Rose Thorn” probe into police corruption in Cocke County. Both Hawk and Grant Williams were believed to be tied in with the same power brokers who had allegedly allowed organized gambling, prostitution and other crimes to flourish in the county.

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All the defendants have a right to an unbiased jury, and it’s Judge Rose Ledet’s job to see they get one. Before jury selection opened on Monday, Ledet made it clear she takes their concerns seriously.
But much of what the public knows about the case comes not from plaintiffs seeking a big payday but from the defendants own company files.
As much as jilted contractors Active Solutions, LLC and Southern Electronics Supply, Inc. stand to benefit from the defendants’ bad behavior, they couldn’t have written this script if they’d tried.
It was St. Pierre, not his accusers, who gave Meffert use of a corporate credit while he was still receiving his six-figure City Hall salary.
That’s not an allegation. It’s fact. The card was in Meffert’s name, although bills went to St. Pierre company NetMethods, LLC. Meffert famously used it to charge all manner of living expenses, including restaurant meals, home furnishings, car repairs, electronics, travel and strip clubs.

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Werner Herzog’s ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’ to play N.O. Film Festival
September 18, 2009, 3:00PM
(AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)Actor Nicholas Cage arrives for the screening of his film “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009.
Werner Herzog’s locally shot, locally set bad-cop drama “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” has been confirmed as a late addition to the New Orleans Film Festival lineup, a festival official confirmed late Thursday.
Inspired by Abel Ferrara’ 1992 “Bad Lieutenant” starring Harvey Keitel, Herzog’s movie stars Nicolas Cage as a drug-addicted New Orleans cop in a post-Katrina Big Easy. Eva Mendes plays his prostitute girlfriend.
Herzog’s movie shot in town late last summer, though it did so without the blessing of the New Orleans Police Department, which, unsurprisingly, was none too thrilled with the subject matter. (So don’t expect to see the familiar star-and-crescent shield on badges or cruisers in Herzog’s film.)

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Werner Herzog’s ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans’ to play N.O. Film Festival
by Mike Scott, Movie writer, The Times-Picayune Friday September 18, 2009, 6:42 AM
Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in a scene from the locally shot ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.’
Werner Herzog’s locally shot, locally set bad-cop drama “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans” has been confirmed as a late addition to the New Orleans Film Festival lineup, a festival official confirmed late Thursday.
Inspired by Abel Ferrara’ 1992 “Bad Lieutenant” starring Harvey Keitel, Herzog’s movie stars Nicolas Cage as a drug-addicted New Orleans cop in a post-Katrina Big Easy. Eva Mendes plays his prostitute girlfriend.
Herzog’s movie shot in town late last summer, though it did so without the blessing of the New Orleans Police Department, which, unsurprisingly, was none too thrilled with the subject matter. (So don’t expect to see the familiar star-and-crescent shield on badges or cruisers in Herzog’s film.)

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September 17, 2009, 5:00 pm
Werner Herzog Goes Wild
TORONTO — With “Bad Lieutenant Port of Call: New Orleans,” the director Werner Herzog set out with his star Nicolas Cage to achieve what he called “the bliss of evil.” The film explores the life of a New Orleans police officer (Mr. Cage) who spends his nights snorting coke, bedding a prostitute, racking up gambling debts and striking deals with drug dealers.
Mr. Herzog spoke about working with Mr. Cage and getting from him a wild performance. Also, he discussed iguanas and dancing souls.

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PLOT: Terence McDonagh (Nicholas Cage) is a coke/ heroine snorting, crack smoking, pill popping police detective with a bad back, a call girl girlfriend (Eva Mendes), and a gambling addiction working in post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. His myriad of problems finally come to a head when he’s assigned a case involving a family of murdered Senagalese immigrants.
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As the titular BAD LIEUTENANT, Cage gets a lot of scenery to chew on here- and for once, this is appropriate. He’s better here than he’s been in years, and for what it’s worth, he seems to be having a blast in the role, which makes his role as Sailor in WILD AT HEART seem almost tame in comparison. Also, his hairpiece is better here than in his last few films, as it actually looks real, unlike the Ryan Seacrest rug from GHOST RIDER, or the doll’s hair from BANGKOK DANGEROUS. The rest of the cast is so-so, with Eva Mendes more or less playing it straight as his pro …

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The Crank films saw Jason Statham rushing here and there to keep his heart pumping hard so that a Chinese poison wouldnt kill him. In Gamer, an athletic Gerard Butler dashes through an urban battle zone, wasting faceless, nameless opponents without any control over his actions. For Kable a prisoner who supposedly can vie for a commuted sentence by participating in these gladiatorial games is controlled (via implanted computer chips in the brain) by Simon (Logan Lerman). This teen video prodigy guides him to weekly victories that enthrall millions around the globe.
The game, along with a sister game that delves into sexual fetishes and prostitution, is the brainchild of reclusive megalomaniac Castle (Michael C. Hall). Not only has Castle been made a multibillionaire by these games, but he uses them to test mind-and-body controls for even more sinister purposes.

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