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ACORN Housing Finally in Foreclosure

Matthew Vadum

My Front Page Magazine article from July 3: ACORN Housing Finally in Foreclosure By Matthew Vadum The largest branch of ACORN – ACORN Housing Corp.— has finally kicked the bucket despite cash injections from the Obama administration. Like a con artist trying to escape his past, ACORN Housing legally changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA) two years ago after the devastating “pimp and pro” videos surfaced in 2009. In those undercover videos created by conservative activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles ACORN and ACORN Housing employees were shown offering helpful advice on setting up a brothel … Continue reading ACORN Housing Finally in Foreclosure

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Obama uses taxpayer cash to back ACORN: Name changes used to dodge the law

Matthew Vadum

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