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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