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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