{"id":2035,"date":"2009-11-12T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2009-11-12T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T19:15:30","slug":"could-it-be-are-there-more-acorn-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2035\/could-it-be-are-there-more-acorn-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Could It Be? Are There More ACORN Videos?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bertha Lewis, head of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), has been busy in recent months trying to defend her organization in the face of an avalanche of controversy.\u00a0 Lewis is sticking to her argument that it was merely a few bad apples employed by ACORN who were caught on undercover videotape giving advice on how to lie to the IRS on income from a fictional underage brothel.\u00a0 Such behavior isn\u2019t\u00a0typical within the organization, she claims.<\/p>\n

Or is it?\u00a0 Ronald Kessler, Chief Washington Correspondent at Newsmax.com, writes today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

More undercover videos of ACORN workers apparently advising Hannah Giles and James O\u2019Keefe on how to evade federal taxes on income from a fictitious brothel will be released to the media in coming weeks, Giles tells Newsmax.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now has filed suit in Maryland against Giles and O\u2019Keefe, claiming civil damages…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Attorneys for the Liberty Legal Institute are\u00a0defending Giles, the daughter of a conservative pastor in Miami,\u00a0pro bono.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In related news, Politico<\/em> is reporting<\/a> that ACORN\u00a0“filed a lawsuit against the federal government Thursday morning, seeking to overturn a law stopping the flow of federal funds” to the organization.\u00a0 ACORN argues that\u00a0measures passed by the House and the Senate to stop the organization from receiving certain taxpayer dollars are… unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bertha Lewis, head of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), has been busy in recent months trying to defend her organization in the face of an avalanche of controversy.\u00a0 Lewis is sticking to her argument that it was merely a few bad apples employed by ACORN who were caught on undercover videotape […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,483,484,485],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-acorn","tag-hannah-giles","tag-james-okeefe","tag-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2041,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}