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Thadius -> RE: ACORN pimp gets busted! (2/1/2010 8:15:50 AM)
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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania
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If it's the top, you can start with the Rathke brothers and the few executives that helped cover up the embezzlement (even from their own board). If you doubt the center and bottom, I would suggest looking at the numerous criminal cases facing them in various states.
Any convictions? Or are these political prosecutions?
Very interesting question, and way to look at things. If that is the standard to use... has there been any convictions related to the original topic of this thread?
Is it a political persecution?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/us/09embezzle.html
Wade Rathke said he learned of the problem when an employee of Citizens Consulting alerted him about suspicious credit card transactions. An internal investigation uncovered inappropriate charges on the cards that led back to his brother.
“Clearly, this was an uncomfortable, conflicting and humiliating situation as far as my family and I were concerned,” he said, “and so the real decisions on how to handle it had to be made by others.”
The executive director of New York Acorn, Bertha Lewis, who has been named director of an interim management committee set up to run the national group’s day-to-day operations, said Dale Rathke was paid about $38,000 a year but that none of that money was used to pay back Acorn.
Instead, she said, the Rathke family has paid Acorn $30,000 a year in restitution since 2001, or a total of $210,000.
A donor has offered to give Acorn the rest of what the Rathkes owe, and an agreement to that effect should be finalized in coming days, Ms. Lewis said.
Sounds like a hell of a deal, get to collect a $38k a year salary and pay back $30k a year. This was also under the original admission that it was only $1Million embezzled, turns out it was closer to $5Million. The stated reason for the "confidentiality" (read: coverup), quote:
He said the decision to keep the matter secret was not made to protect his brother but because word of the embezzlement would have put a “weapon” into the hands of enemies of Acorn . Obviously, laws and regulations relating to non-profits and federally funded organizations are only to be applied to groups other than ACORN?
Oh and for their internal investigations and how they are worth...
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/13/acorn.investigation/
ACORN fires 2 who were probing embezzlement allegations
CNN) -- Community organizing group ACORN, investigated this year for filing fraudulent voter registration forms, has fired two board members it had asked to investigate allegations that an ACORN founder's brother embezzled nearly $1 million.
An internal document from the ACORN executive board, obtained by CNN, shows that members Karen Inman and Marcel Reid were "removed from any office or committee position you may have held."
A separate document says that "the memberships of Karen Inman and Marcel Reid in ACORN is canceled, and they are removed from the Association Board."
The documents, dated November 11, are signed by Maude Hurd, president of the ACORN Association Board.
Hurd was not immediately available for comment Thursday afternoon, an ACORN receptionist said.
But ACORN member Gloria Brown, speaking from the group's main office in New Orleans, Louisiana, said in response to a CNN request for comment that Inman and Reid were removed because "they've been saying from the beginning things that were not true."
Sounds like quite the organization to emulate ethically.
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