Obama uses taxpayer cash to back ACORN: Name changes used to dodge the law
I had an op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Times. It begins: The Obama administration has showered its allies at ACORN Housing with $729,849 so far this year despite powerful, newly unveiled evidence of corruption and massive accounting irregularities at the longtime affiliate of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Watchdog group Cause of Action recently pressured NeighborWorks America, a taxpayer-funded federal nonprofit that funneled more than $26.5 million in federal foreclosure-avoidance money to ACORN Housing, to disclose an internal audit furnished to then-Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, late last year. The audit, provided to Cause of … Continue reading Obama uses taxpayer cash to back ACORN: Name changes used to dodge the law