{"id":728,"date":"2010-03-03T01:41:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2010-03-03T01:41:31","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:41:31","slug":"acorn-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/03\/acorn-cleared\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn Cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a hat tip to<\/font> Hat-Tip<\/a> on this, because I saw it at his place before finding it in my daily research this morning.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"alg_acorn\"<\/a> Brooklyn prosecutors on Monday cleared ACORN of criminal wrongdoing<\/strong> after a four-month probe that began when undercover conservative activists filmed workers giving what appeared to be illegal advice on how to hide money.<\/p>\n

While the video by James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles seemed to show three ACORN workers advising a prostitute how to hide ill-gotten gains, the unedited version was not as clear, according to a law enforcement source.<\/p>\n

"They edited the tape to meet their agenda<\/font><\/strong>," said the source.<\/p>\n

O’Keefe and Giles – who visited ACORN offices in several cities, including its Brooklyn headquarters – stirred controversy when they posted the videos on their Web site.<\/p>\n

They were hailed as heroes by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and their footage led several government agencies to temporarily cut funding for ACORN as the prosecutors opened an investigation.<\/p>\n

"On Sept. 15, 2009, my office began an investigation into possible criminality on the part of three ACORN employees," Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said in a one-paragraph statement issued Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

"That investigation is now concluded and no criminality has been found<\/strong>."… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I hope that the idiots in Congress who put their tail between their legs and passed the Defund ACORN Act<\/a>, a bill of attainder, are properly chagrined that they participating in smearing this fine organization on the word of a GOP criminal.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s a hat tip to Hat-Tip on this, because I saw it at his place before finding it in my daily research this morning. Brooklyn prosecutors on Monday cleared ACORN of criminal wrongdoing after a four-month probe that began when undercover conservative activists filmed workers giving what appeared to be illegal advice on how to hide […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}