Surprising no-one, an internal investigation conducted by ACORN about ACORN representatives who advised a pair of undercover journalists on how to set up a prostitution ring using under-aged illegal immigrants as sex slaves and then hide the proceeds from the IRS found that the ACORN representatives broke no laws.
While the report, prepared by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger, cited ACORN employees for poor judgment, it ultimately found they did not violate any federal laws.
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“While some of the advice and counsel given by ACORN employees and volunteers was clearly inappropriate and unprofessional, we did not find a pattern of intentional, illegal conduct by ACORN staff; in fact, there is no evidence that action, illegal or otherwise, was taken by any ACORN employee on behalf of the videographer,” Harshbarger wrote in the report.
Big Government.com, the nascent news outlet that broke the ACORN story, promises much more on the “whitewash” report in the future, but starts by noting…
We’ll leave you with one point, however. Of the dozens of people Harschbarger said he interviewed as part of this “report”, not one was from outside the ACORN empire. No former workers nor ousted Board members. Not one person who isn’t currently affiliated with or paid by ACORN. As the saying goes, “Garbage in, garbage out.”
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