A new report issued by congressional Republicans alleges fraud and widespread political corruption in the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). A Pittsburgh attorney who sued ACORN for election law violations last year says if Democratic leaders don't exercise their duty of oversight, there needs to be a call for a special prosecutor.
Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a report yesterday accusing ACORN of violating several tax and election laws by using tax dollars to support its liberal political agenda. According to the report, ACORN provided contributions of financial and personnel resources to indicted former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown, and Barack Obama when he was running for president. Heather Heidelbaugh, vice president of the Republican Lawyers Association, says ACORN has received $53 million from taxpayers and has access to $2.8 billion in the Obama administration. "What we think has happened is that all of that money has gone into one account -- Citizens Consulting, Inc. -- and has been intermingled with members' dues, foundation grants, donors' grants, all sorts of other money; and then that money has been used to further the campaigns of people running for office that ACORN endorses," she explains. "That, clearly, is illegal." Heidelbaugh, who calls the report "shocking," says ACORN is funneling tax dollars to its 361 affiliated organizations so they can carry out partisan political activity. Such a scheme, the lawyer argues, warrants a criminal investigation.
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