Americans concerned about alleged extensive corruption within ACORN can rest easier tonight.<\/p>\n
ACORN has launched its very own, no-holds-barred investigation of itself.<\/p>\n
Overseeing the investigation will be former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros as an ACORN advisory council member.\u00a0 Cisneros was forced to resign as HUD Secretary in 1997 as a result of an 18-count indictment for conspiracy, giving false statements and obstruction of justice, regarding payments to a former mistress.\u00a0 In 1999, he was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of lying to the FBI, getting off with a $10,000 fine and no jail time.\u00a0 President Clinton pardoned him in 2001, cleaning up that fine mess.<\/p>\n
Conducting the investigation will be Scott Harshbarger, former Attorney General of Massachusetts.\u00a0 Harshbarger certainly knows evidence \u2013 and how to trump it up.\u00a0 In the 1980s, as a district attorney in Massachusetts, he prosecuted a case almost universally regarded as one of the most shameless miscarriages of justice in the country.\u00a0 Using the coached, nay, manipulated and transparently irrational testimony of children, and exploiting public emotions over sexual predators, Harshbarger prosecuted and convicted Gerald Amirault of the Fells Acres Day Care Center in Malden, Massachusetts.\u00a0 Harshbarger has to this day never acknowledged the overzealous prosecution, nor has he had to.<\/p>\n
With sturdy citizens like Cisneros and Harshbarger at the helm of ACORN’s internal investigation, there is just no need for those state and federal investigations, like with subpoenas and sworn testimony and all that stuff.\u00a0 Is there?<\/p>\n
Oh and by the way, as columnist Deroy Murdoch points out, when “ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis told Fox News Sunday<\/em> her group ‘absolutely pays its taxes,'” she must have forgotten the state and federal tax liens filed against ACORN\u2019s New Orleans headquarters.\u00a0 When you\u2019re busy collecting millions from state and federal governments, it\u2019s just ever so easy not to remember a measly $1 million in back taxes.\u00a0 Surely Cisneros and Harshbarger will want to clear that little misunderstanding up as soon as possible.\u00a0 Won\u2019t they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Americans concerned about alleged extensive corruption within ACORN can rest easier tonight. ACORN has launched its very own, no-holds-barred investigation of itself. Overseeing the investigation will be former HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros as an ACORN advisory council member.\u00a0 Cisneros was forced to resign as HUD Secretary in 1997 as a result of an 18-count indictment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-acorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}