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DOJ Inspector General: NY Organization Was An ACORN Front

Ryan J. Reilly | November 30, 2011, 9:55AM

The New York Agency for Community Affairs worked as a front group for the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) and used federal grant funds to make ACORN's payroll back in 2005 and 2006, according to a new report by the Justice Department's Inspector General.

Investigators questioned $138,129 in grant money spent by NYACA. They found that the organization "did not have any paid employees at the time it received the grant or at any time during the life of the grant-funded project." From the report:

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Topics: ACORN, DOJ Office Of The Inspector General, New York Agency for Community Affairs

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Anti-Voter Fraud Tea Party Group Hosts Author Who Thinks Poor Shouldn't Vote

Ryan J. Reilly | November 14, 2011, 6:00AM

The King Street Patriots are a Texas Tea Party group with an anti-voter fraud spin off organization that is plotting a nationwide poll watching movement and advocates for voter ID laws. Matthew Vadum is a conservative columnist who thinks that registering poor people to vote is un-American and "like handing out burglary tools to criminals." On Monday, the King Street Patriots will be hosting him for lunch in Houston.

For $100, guests of the King Street Patriots can dine at Maggiano's for a four-course meal and a signed copy of Vadum's Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers. They'll learn all about how a group with "such an innocent sounding name and endearing logo" is really "a criminal organization with the goal of the destruction of America and the installation of a totalitarian government."

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Topics: ACORN, King Street Patriots, Matthew Vadum, True The Vote

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Issa Wants Feds To Probe ACORN Role In Occupy Wall Street

Ryan J. Reilly | November 7, 2011, 5:05PM

House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) wants federal prosecutors in New York to probe media reports alleging that New York Communities for Change (NYCC) -- "an organization with close tied [sic] to the now-defunct New York chapter of The Association of Community (ACORN) -- engaged in fraud through its participation in the Occupy Wall Street protests."

In a letter to U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch, Issa writes that it is "alleged that NYCC solicited donations from union members under false pretenses and misappropriated those funds to support the protesters. I hope that your office will investigate these allegations to determine if they have any merit and prosecute any wrongdoing accordingly."

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Topics: ACORN, Occupy Wall Street