:lmfao:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/10/acorn.prostitution/
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(CNN) -- Two employees at the Baltimore, Maryland, branch of the liberal community organizing group ACORN 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 footage, which appears to have been edited in places, was recorded and posted online Thursday.
The video footage -- which has been edited and goes to black in some areas -- was recorded and posted online Thursday by James O'Keefe, a conservative activist. He was joined on the video by another conservative, Hannah Giles, who posed as the prostitute in the filmmakers' undercover sting.
The video shows the pair approaching two women working at the ACORN Baltimore office and asking them for advice on how to set up a prostitution ring involving more than a dozen underage girls from El Salvador.
One of the ACORN workers suggests that Giles refer to herself as a "performing artist" on tax forms and declare some of the girls as dependents to receive child tax credits.
"Stop saying prostitution," the woman, identified by the filmmaker as an ACORN tax expert, tells Giles. The other woman tells them, "You want to keep them clean ... make sure they go to school." Video Watch tape of alleged advice on prostitution »
Both women appear enthusiastic to help.
Calls to ACORN's Baltimore offices were not immediately returned Thursday.
Stuart Katzenberg, lead organizer for ACORN's Maryland chapter, told the Baltimore Sun that both ACORN employees were fired because they "did not meet ACORN's standards of professionalism."
Sonja Merchant-Jones, chair of Baltimore City ACORN, told CNN affiliate WMAR-TV that the fired workers were seasonal, part-time employees and that no senior ACORN staff members were in the building at the time the film was made.
Scott Levenson, a spokesman at ACORN's national offices said, "The portrayal is false and defamatory and an attempt at 'gotcha journalism.'
"This film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed. ACORN wants to see the full video before commenting further," Levenson said.
The conservative filmmakers unsuccessfully attempted similar ruses at the group's offices in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Los Angeles, California, and New York, Levenson said.
Law enforcement officials in the Baltimore area wouldn't confirm whether they are investigating the alleged incident at the local ACORN office. However, authorities said that under Maryland law, such undercover video may not be admissible in court as evidence.
CNN attempted to reach O'Keefe and Giles; O'Keefe was not available for comment and Giles canceled an interview scheduled for Thursday.
ACORN -- an acronym for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- made headlines last year when Republican groups seized on allegations of voter registration fraud by the group in Florida and several other states, claiming its workers were trying to push the election in Barack Obama's favor.
On Wednesday, arrest warrants were issued for 11 Florida voter registration workers suspected of submitting false information on hundreds of voter registration cards, according to court documents. The Florida investigation was triggered by ACORN officials who noticed irregularities in forms they were receiving.
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Founded in 1970, ACORN calls itself "the nation's largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people." The group says it has more than 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities.
Besides voter registration, the group focuses on issues such as predatory lending, the minimum wage and funding for public schools, according to its Web site. It also provides free tax-return preparation for low-income people and screening for state and federal benefit programs.
CNN's Bill Tucker, Chris Murphey and Steve Turnham contributed to this report.
Baltimore still #1.
:lmfao: :nelson:
Yeah, just add this to the many other investigations, corruption allegations and convictions going on around the country for ACORN. And this organization is getting the nod to help do the census? Is that still on? If so, what a joke. We'll have 500 million people by the time they get through!! :lol:
I believe ACORN is going to rename themselves to COI - Community Organization International. I guess a name change is in order to try start clean, or "Reset", or maybe to reflect their goals of spreading the message to other nations.
Apparently the Washington office was happy to help as well. :D
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549241,00.html?mep
QuoteSecond Video Shows ACORN Officials Helping 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute' in Washington Office
One day after two ACORN officials in Baltimore were fired for offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute to engage in child prostitution and a series of tax crimes, another secretly shot videotape has surfaced that shows the same couple getting similar advice from ACORN officers in Washington.
The newly released videotape, shot on July 25, shows ACORN staffers explaining to the pair how they can hide the woman's professed work — prostitution — and get a loan that will help them establish a brothel.
James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as the pimp while visiting the ACORN office, accompanied by 20-year-old Hannah Giles, who posed as the prostitute. On a videotape provided to FOXNews.com, they are seen receiving guidance to establish the woman as the sole proprietor of a bogus company to mask the nature of her business.
"She's not going to put on (the loan application) that she's doing prostitution ... she doesn't have to," the ACORN staffer says. "You don't have to sit back and tell people what you do."
• Click here to see video.
The ACORN staffer is heard suggesting that O'Keefe can purchase a house, and as the landlord, if he is ever questioned by authorities, he can say he was unaware of the illegal business going on inside.
"[W]hen the police ask you, (tell them) you don't know where (the money is) coming from," the staffer said. "We are looking out for you."
The ACORN employee later suggests that O'Keefe, who said he had a budding political career, not linger at the house in case people "put the dots together" and leave him "smeared and tarnished" by his association with his prostitute girlfriend. She should keep her business "low key," the employee continued, saying "You have neighbors and they see stuff. Don't think that people won't get on the telephone and call Fox."
An ACORN spokesman told FOX News the group would need to look at the full tape and transcript before commenting.
One day before the Washington video was shot, O'Keefe and Giles sought help from ACORN workers in Baltimore, who told the pair how to falsify tax forms and seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador that they said they said they wanted to import as prostitutes.
As he did in the taping in Baltimore, O'Keefe told the Washington officers that he had plans to bring as many as 10 women from El Salvador to work as prostitutes in Giles' "business."
"There's like 10 girls," O'Keefe says. "There's ten El Salvodoreans."
The ACORN staffer replies, "I understand what you are saying."
ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — calls itself a network of families "working together for social justice and stronger communities," according to its Web site.
The organization has been accused by conservatives and Republicans of committing fraud in voter registration drives around the country, and reaction to the videotape came swiftly after its release on Thursday.
"Taxpayers should be outraged that their money has gone to an organization that, in addition to facing charges of voter fraud and tax violations, is willing to facilitate prostitution," said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.
"As this video confirms, ACORN continues to operate as a criminal enterprise."
The first videotape, made in the Baltimore offices of ACORN, was made public Thursday on the political blog BigGovernment.com. That night, after portions of the video were aired throughout the day on FOX News, the group fired the two women who assisted O'Keefe and Giles in Baltimore.
Quote from: KRonn on September 11, 2009, 02:37:29 PM
Yeah, just add this to the many other investigations, corruption allegations and convictions going on around the country for ACORN. And this organization is getting the nod to help do the census? Is that still on? If so, what a joke. We'll have 500 million people by the time they get through!! :lol:
I believe ACORN is going to rename themselves to COI - Community Organization International. I guess a name change is in order to try start clean, or "Reset", or maybe to reflect their goals of spreading the message to other nations.
Yeah, 11 members were just arrested in Florida for 900 counts of voter fraud.
Awesome.
Didn't Obama get his start with ACORN? Right? When he was just a young Muslim immigrant looking for a job?
Quote from: Berkut on September 11, 2009, 03:00:16 PM
Awesome.
Didn't Obama get his start with ACORN? Right? When he was just a young Muslim immigrant looking for a job?
Obama has moved into realms of corruption that ACORN can't even imagine.
Quote from: Berkut on September 11, 2009, 03:00:16 PM
Didn't Obama get his start with ACORN? Right?
No. Different organization.
Quote from: Berkut on September 11, 2009, 03:00:16 PM
Didn't Obama get his start with ACORN?
I think it was the Young Pioneers. ;)
:face:
Saw some footage on CNN. They didn't show her face but the fake ho looks pretty damn good from the back.
Honestly, I think this is more a reflection on dazzling urbanites in the Baltimore/Washington corridor than it is on ACORN.
But, unlike most of you, my view on dazzling urbanites around here is lower than it is on ACORNtards.
Frankly, I don't get the brouhaha over this.
OMG you have low-ranking members of a mass-membership organization engaging in dubious and/or illegal activities and then being fired for it? Stop the presses! :rolleyes:
Quote from: Martinus on September 11, 2009, 05:33:08 PM
Frankly, I don't get the brouhaha over this.
OMG you have low-ranking members of a mass-membership organization engaging in dubious and/or illegal activities and then being fired for it? Stop the presses! :rolleyes:
1) It's funny as shit.
2) The Obama connection.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 11, 2009, 05:24:00 PM
Saw some footage on CNN. They didn't show her face but the fake ho looks pretty damn good from the back.
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Girl on the left.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on September 11, 2009, 03:11:21 PM
Quote from: Berkut on September 11, 2009, 03:00:16 PM
Didn't Obama get his start with ACORN? Right?
No. Different organization.
Yes, he worked for an organization that advised and trained ACORN volunteers, not for ACORN directly.
Watched some more of the video. Community organizing at its finest :)
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 11, 2009, 05:38:44 PM
Quote from: Martinus on September 11, 2009, 05:33:08 PM
Frankly, I don't get the brouhaha over this.
OMG you have low-ranking members of a mass-membership organization engaging in dubious and/or illegal activities and then being fired for it? Stop the presses! :rolleyes:
1) It's funny as shit.
2) The Obama connection.
It's odd how the Blackwater stuff wasn't very funny.
Quote from: Neil on September 11, 2009, 03:00:57 PM
Quote from: Berkut on September 11, 2009, 03:00:16 PM
Awesome.
Didn't Obama get his start with ACORN? Right? When he was just a young Muslim immigrant looking for a job?
Obama has moved into realms of corruption that ACORN can't even imagine.
Yes, he's president of the U.S. :)
I was handing out campaign literature for the conservative party for the upcoming election. A drunk came up to me and offered to vote conservative for 70 NOK (about US$ 15). Naturally I refused to pay him. He probably wasn't going to vote anyway, he can't give me a receipt as proof. Not to mention the whole thing being both illegal and immoral.
Quote from: Viking on September 12, 2009, 04:37:42 AM
Not to mention the whole thing being both illegal and immoral.
Norway?
Quote from: KRonn on September 11, 2009, 02:37:29 PM
Yeah, just add this to the many other investigations, corruption allegations and convictions going on around the country for ACORN. And this organization is getting the nod to help do the census? Is that still on? If so, what a joke. We'll have 500 million people by the time they get through!! :lol:
Not anymore. ^_^
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125271412822705239.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
QuoteCensus Bureau Cuts Its Ties With Acorn
September 12, 2009
By JAKE SHERMAN
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Census Bureau on Friday dropped Acorn as a partner for the 2010 Census after two separate hidden-camera videos captured four employees of the community organization giving tax advice on running a brothel to a man posing as an aspiring politician and a woman posing as his girlfriend and a prostitute.
The Census Bureau earlier this year signed up the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, one of the nation's largest community groups, as a national partner for the decennial census, a role that entails helping to publicize the importance of the count and encouraging people to participate.
In a letter to Acorn President Maude Hurd, Census Director Robert Groves said Acorn had become a distraction.
Acorn's deputy national director, Brian Kettenring, said the organization won't stop promoting the 2010 Census. "We will continue to do what we've said we'll do, which is encourage people in communities to participate fully in the census," he said.
News reports have identified the filmmaker as 25-year-old James O'Keefe, an activist for conservative issues. His identity couldn't be independently verified. In the videos, posted on YouTube, he posed as an aspiring politician and told the Acorn workers that he planned to use his girlfriend's prostitution income to fund future campaigns. One video was filmed at the community organization's Baltimore office, and another, a day later, in Washington, D.C.
The workers, who Acorn said were fired after it learned of the videos, instructed the couple to set up a company to prove they had enough income for a house that would serve as a brothel and home for teenage prostitutes. The couple purported to be seeking help to obtain a housing loan.
Acorn released a statement earlier Friday saying that the videos were made to "misinform the public about Acorn housing."
"All Acorn housing staff members undergo rigorous training and are expected to comply with high standards for ethical behavior and compliance with the law," said president of Acorn Housing Alton Bennett and Executive Director Mike Shea.
Yeah Tim, I saw that on the news, that the Census bureau shut off ties with ACORN. We'll see if it stands - lots of pressure from the Dems and lefties for ACORN. Dem John Conyers was one who called for investigation, but backed off shortly after, stating pressure from the powers to be. And he's an influential Democrat Congressman who caved.
It's starting to get annoying how ACORN became the new catch-all word for something that is leftist and evil, sort of like "neo-con" for the other side.
Quote from: DGuller on September 12, 2009, 02:13:36 PM
It's starting to get annoying how ACORN became the new catch-all word for something that is leftist and evil, sort of like "neo-con" for the other side.
:huh:
As in "Obamacare is way too ACORN?" Or "the ACORN wing of the Democratic party will destroy the US economy?"
Yeah, that. I've lost count how many times I've blasted the goddamned leftist ACORNheads here on the forum for all their ACORNy ways.
Quote from: DGuller on September 12, 2009, 02:13:36 PM
It's starting to get annoying how ACORN became the new catch-all word for something that is leftist and evil, sort of like "neo-con" for the other side.
It's starting to get annoying how Congress doesn't investigate this criminal, raqueteering enterprise, as some Congress members call who are trying to get it investigated. The org gets our tax money, has a lot of issues being brought over it all the time. Some of its own branch or mid level members have been asking questions about funding, money, etc, and getting mostly grief for their whistle blowing.
They'd be OK if they renamed themselves Swift ACORNS For Truth.
Quote from: Caliga on September 11, 2009, 07:25:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 11, 2009, 05:24:00 PM
Saw some footage on CNN. They didn't show her face but the fake ho looks pretty damn good from the back.
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Girl on the left.
:huh:
Pretty sure it was a black chick.
Is that a picture of the girl who was banging the Cali state rep?
No, it's Hannah Giles, the girl from the ACORN video man.
http://biggovernment.com/ (http://biggovernment.com/)
There are some blog posts by her on this page. Scroll down a bit to find them.
:lol:
She reminds me of Cher from Clueless. Especially when she was talking about the experience in the Beck clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1UXZzXcOA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1UXZzXcOA)
I disagree with Beck. I would in fact encourage her to expose herself more, not less. :)
Quote from: Caliga on September 14, 2009, 05:44:51 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1UXZzXcOA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya1UXZzXcOA)
I disagree with Beck. I would in fact encourage her to expose herself more, not less. :)
No implants criticism? You fail. :weep:
Yes, an oversight on my part. :blush:
This sort of reminds me of the video of the Democratic activists bribing homeless people to go vote during the 2004 Presidential election (or maybe in 2006?).
Quote from: Caliga on September 14, 2009, 09:00:26 AM
Yes, an oversight on my part. :blush:
Caliga = EPIC FAIL
3rd video released, this one from Brooklyn.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549903,00.html
I've seen better pimp costumes on Halloween. :lol:
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If anything, those ACORN employees should be convicted of criminal stupidity for believing that guy is a real "pimp". He looks exactly like a frat boy in a pimp costume.
Well, he did say he was pimpin' his way through law school.
Quote from: Malthus on September 14, 2009, 02:11:50 PM
If anything, those ACORN employees should be convicted of criminal stupidity for believing that guy is a real "pimp". He looks exactly like a frat boy in a pimp costume.
Also, he's white. :)
Quote from: Caliga on September 14, 2009, 02:18:49 PM
Quote from: Malthus on September 14, 2009, 02:11:50 PM
If anything, those ACORN employees should be convicted of criminal stupidity for believing that guy is a real "pimp". He looks exactly like a frat boy in a pimp costume.
Also, he's white. :)
White guys could be pimps - but not, I would think, looking like that. :D
Quote from: Malthus on September 14, 2009, 02:20:02 PM
Quote from: Caliga on September 14, 2009, 02:18:49 PM
Quote from: Malthus on September 14, 2009, 02:11:50 PM
If anything, those ACORN employees should be convicted of criminal stupidity for believing that guy is a real "pimp". He looks exactly like a frat boy in a pimp costume.
Also, he's white. :)
White guys could be pimps - but not, I would think, looking like that. :D
He could have high class clients like the governor. -_-
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 14, 2009, 02:21:37 PM
He could have high class clients like the governor. -_-
I think Spitzer would have been interested in his goods. :cool:
Quote from: Caliga on September 14, 2009, 02:24:44 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 14, 2009, 02:21:37 PM
He could have high class clients like the governor. -_-
I think Spitzer would have been interested in his goods. :cool:
I doubt it about Spitzer, but McGreevey might've been.
Quote from: DGuller on September 14, 2009, 02:30:18 PM
I doubt it about Spitzer, but McGreevey might've been.
:lmfao:
Quote from: Malthus on September 14, 2009, 02:11:50 PM
If anything, those ACORN employees should be convicted of criminal stupidity for believing that guy is a real "pimp". He looks exactly like a frat boy in a pimp costume.
Indeed. No true pimp would be caught dead in a two-button suit.
The Senate votes 83-7 against giving ACORN funding.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32848593/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
Just goes to show you what change a few people with a mission and with a camera can bring.
I think the wise thing now would be to distance ourselves from Acorn until they clean up their act.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on September 15, 2009, 05:01:20 AM
The Senate votes 83-7 against giving ACORN funding.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32848593/ns/politics-capitol_hill/
This probably won't work; looks good on paper though, and helps I guess. ACORN works with many other groups and affiliates on all sorts of jobs. They don't just get direct funding from the Fed budget, but also get jobs and money from the hundreds of other groups they work with. Something like that, so it's hard to prevent them from getting funding. In fact, I'd think the only way they can remain in operation is through govt money, either direct or funneled to them from affiliates.