Watchdog Group Calls ACORN “Hypocritical”

Whistle blowers expose theft of $1 million, fraud and other scams

ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which bills itself as the nation’s largest community organization of low and moderate income families “advocacy” group is largely taxpayer funded. It is once again under fire this time by the Consumer Right League (CRL) that has released a series of whistleblower documents showing commingling of government grants and using taxpayer money for ACORN’S often radical political activities.

In addition an ACORN executive is accused of embezzling more than $1 million but was not removed from his salaried job, prosecuted or forced to repay the funds. CRL also exposed ACORN for using tax money to make predatory home loans, and an array of fraud, corruption and abuse that CRL calls “hypocritical” and illegal.

ACORN has been accused of abuses in voter registration, and contributing to what has become widespread abuses including registering illegal aliens to vote. One investigation in Chicago revealed tens of thousands of unlawfully registered voters there. It is not immediately clear that ACORN was involved in that particular scheme but it has been named in a Los Angeles scam that registered people illegally.