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HUD Report Slams Corrupt ACORN As Funding Ban Set To Expire For Undead Group
Citing massive irregularities and gross taxpayer funding abuses, federal investigators are recommending that government funding for ACORN’s still operating housing affiliate be cut off immediately. Investigators must have felt it…
by Matthew Vadum on September 24, 2010

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ACORN Sprouts New Branches
I have an op-ed on ACORN in tomorrow’s Washington Times. It begins: It looks like the congenitally corrupt, still-operating Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) won’t be…
by Matthew Vadum on August 19, 2010

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Breaking: Nevada To Press On With Criminal Prosecution of ACORN
Nevada’s Democratic attorney general, Catherine Cortez Masto, is moving forward with a criminal prosecution of ACORN even though the financially anemic group has dissolved its national structure and reportedly slashed its workforce…
by Matthew Vadum on July 20, 2010

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New GAO Report on ACORN is Compromised: ACORN’s Lawyer Demanded Changes — and He Got Them!
ACORN demanded and received changes to a congressional report that –surprise, surprise– fails to find ACORN did anything wrong.  Longtime ACORN lawyer Arthur Z. Schwartz sent a letter to the Government…
by Matthew Vadum on June 16, 2010

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Flashback: Census Bureau Dumped Unreliable ACORN After Videos Exposed Corruption
The Census Bureau dumped ACORN as a “national partner” in the 2010 head count last fall after James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles’s undercover videos spotlighting ACORN’s rampant corruption debuted here…
by Matthew Vadum on June 1, 2010

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ACORN Rebrands DC, MD Chapters Under Communities United Name
ACORN’s District of Columbia and Maryland chapters have rebranded themselves under one new name: Communities United. Communities United registered as a nonprofit corporation with the District of Columbia…
by Matthew Vadum on May 11, 2010

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ACORN Boss: Tea Party A “Bowel Movement”
Here’s the top of my piece in today’s Daily Caller: ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis praised socialism and said the Tea Party was a “bowel movement” filled with racists…
by Matthew Vadum on April 22, 2010

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‘Dissolved’ ACORN Still Hitting Up Supporters For Funds
The organized crime syndicate known as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which has been making much ado about its feigned withdrawal from the national political stage,…
by Matthew Vadum on April 20, 2010

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Justice Department Appeals ACORN Ruling
Some weeks ago the U.S. Department of Justice filed an appeal of U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon’s (absurd) ruling on ACORN funding. Gershon issued a permanent injunction against the U.S.
by Matthew Vadum on April 12, 2010

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Updated ACORN Rebranding Chart
I updated my ACORN rebranding-as-performance-art chart. Read it here.
by Matthew Vadum on April 5, 2010