Obama’s home political supporters, the leftist “community” organization called ACORN, is guilty of hiding the theft of one million dollars of its funds by the brother of the organization’s founder, Wade Rathke. But, it is even worse than just a case of common embezzlement. It turns out that the ACORN board and brother Wade, leader of the political activist group, tried to cover up the theft so that his bro wouldn’t get caught up with the Feds and punished for his theft.
This from the July 9th edition of The New York Times:
Acorn chose to treat the embezzlement of nearly $1 million eight years ago as an internal matter and did not even notify its board. After Points of Light noticed financial irregularities in early June, it took less than a month for management to alert federal prosecutors, although group officials say they have no clear idea yet what the financial impact may be.
The brother, Dale Rathke, embezzled nearly $1 million from Acorn and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000, Acorn officials said, but a small group of executives decided to keep the information from almost all of the group’s board members and not to alert law enforcement.
These are the kind of ner-do-wells we are dealing with where it concerns ACORN. Cronyism, theft, embezzlement, cover ups…. and these are the people behind the many union efforts across the nation, as well as the Barack Obama campaign. It is also the group that Obama grew into political maturity with.
If these facts don’t show you what sort of nefarious characters we are dealing with… well, you aren’t interested in truth.
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Well, the brother can pay it back
David Hinz (Diary) Sunday, July 27th at 7:15AM EST (link)and all will be forgiven. I mean if the guy stole $1 million eight years ago, he should have made enough interest on that money to pay it back and still live on what is left.
Of course, if the brother managed to pi– away the money, he is now in deep sh–!
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Where is the DoJ with a RICO investigation?
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, July 27th at 8:18AM EST (link)How about a parade of Republican Senators/CongressCritters™ demanding Congressional investigations?
The perfect person to lead the charge
bk (Diary) Sunday, July 27th at 8:28AM EST (link)Rep William Jefferson should demand ACORN be turned over to his family so it can be managed properly.