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Shelby wants ACORN investigation

By Eric Zimmermann - 09/15/09 12:35 PM ET

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) is asking that both the Senate and executive branch open investigations into the actions of ACORN.

The Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has come under fire recently when an undercover video showed employees offering to falsify housing applications for individuals claiming to be involved in prostitution.  Additionally, former ACORN employees were arrested for allegedly falsifying vote applications during the 2008 election.

ACORN has stressed that the actions were the work of a few employees and do not represent the organization's policies.

Shelby, the top Republican on the committee that handles Housing and Urban Affairs, penned letters to chairman Chris Dodd (D) and the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development requesting an "immediate an thorough investigation" into ACORN's activities.

The move comes a day after the Senate voted to strip funding ACORN of its federal funding.

"While this vote is important, it is limited in scope and we must know more," Shelby said.

"It is imperative that we proceed immediately to investigate what appears to be ACORN’s stunning disregard for the law and abuse of taxpayer funds.  Such an investigation would serve as the basis for determining not only whether ACORN is worthy of receiving other federal funds this year, but ever again.”

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Comments (6)

Acorn will hide under another name. Americans need to remove Obama asap for his connection to this group and his corruption follows the Chicago politics. Follow the money and you will see Obama is linked to corruption in all ways of Acorn and affiliates.BY j florez on 09/15/2009 at 14:35
We need an intensive investigation of ACORN. I don't want it to become political so therefore, the Justice Dept. or FBI should do the investigating. We need to find out where every dime has gone that we have given them.. I have a feeling the investigation will be stopped by someone very high in government..If we could follow the money, I think we all would be shocked.BY phil on 09/15/2009 at 14:57
I don't care what Acorn did. I bet they helped a whole lot more people with the 53 Million bucks they received from the Govt. in a 15 year span than AIG and the other big business execs that got billions in bailout money.BY DeWente69 on 09/16/2009 at 11:44
That pretty much sums America up these days. We should look the other way because this organization does some good. The problem is that this is OUR money and OUR laws these people are playing with. When small groups of people are allowed to break the laws because they are doing "good works" then eventually there are no laws to constrain these people.BY jlieberman on 09/16/2009 at 15:41
There is no one above the law not even a organization that may or may not have done some good. They should look under ever rock and look in every cranny with this organization.BY M.J on 09/29/2009 at 11:07
How about Legal Aid? That's another do-good, tax-wasting program that works closely with ACORN. They just hauled us through court for 2.5 years on behalf of our renter, because "she felt she owned our house in her heart" costing us a total of $65,000. Wiping us out and we, at the end of it, ended up with a drug, garbage house damaged to the tune of $40,000. Their investigation, by themselves, concluded that although what happened was :disturbing" and they"deeply regret" our loss, in this case it was" justified" because our renter's "income was sporadic" and she needed housing. We now have debt we will never recover from, and my husband, in remission from cancer, had to sleep in his car because we could no longer afford a motel or the gas for him to drive home from work,( He works 85 miles away)BY Jackie EPangerl on 12/03/2009 at 00:15

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