From an ACORN the mighty OBAMA grew! (Part ONE of TWO)
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ACORN officials
Videotaped
Telling ‘Pimp,’
‘Prostitute’ How
to Lie to IRS
FOXNEWS.COM
September 10th, 2009
(Part ONE of TWO)
(Links are in GREEN)
Officials with the controversial
community organizing group
ACORN were secretly videotaped
offering to assist two individuals
posing as a pimp and a prostitute,
encouraging them to lie to
the Internal Revenue Service
and providing guidance on how
to claim underage girls from
South America as dependents.
The videotape was
made public Thursday on
a political blog launched by
Andrew Breitbart as a
companion site to his
BigHollywood.breitbart.
com blog.
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In the videotape,
made on July 24,
James O’Keefe,
a 25-year-old
independent filmmaker,
posed as a pimp with a
20-year-old woman
named “Kenya” who posed
as a prostitute while visiting
ACORN’s office in Baltimore.
The couple told ACORN
staffers they wanted to
secure housing where the
woman could continue to
maintain a prostitution
business.
ACORN —
the Association of
Community Organizations
for Reform Now —
bills itself as the nation’s
largest community of
low- and moderate-income
families “working together
for social justice and
stronger communities,”
according to its
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The organization has been
accused by Republicans and
conservative activists with
fraud in voter registration
drives around the country
and has been under fire since
last year for its support of
and for its planned
participation in next
year’s census.
On the videotape,
“Kenya” can be seen
telling an ACORN staffer
that she earns roughly
$8,000 a month.
The ACORN employee then
suggests to “Kenya” that
ACORN could submit a
for 2008 showing that she
made $9,600 for the
entire year —
instead of $96,000 —
and that ACORN would
charge “Kenya” $50 instead
of the usual $150 fee for
preparing her taxes.
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A spokesman for ACORN,
Scott Levenson,
when asked to comment
on the videotape, said:
“The portrayal is false
and defamatory and an
attempt at gotcha journalism.
This film crew tried to pull
this sham at other offices
and failed.
ACORN wants to see the
full video before commenting
further.”
ACORN offers tax preparation
and benefits application
services free of charge
during tax season;
it charges nominal fees
during non-tax season.
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The ACORN staffer can also
be seen suggesting that the
prostitute list her occupation
as a freelance
“performing artist.”
“It’s not dancing,
trust me,”
the “pimp” says.
“But dancing is
considered an art,”
the ACORN staffer replies.
“[Exotic dancers] usually
go under performing artists,
or yeah,
they usually go under
which will be what you are —
a performing artist.”
The “pimp” later says
that he and “Kenya” plan
to bring up to
13 “very young” girls
from El Salvador to work
as prostitutes.
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Although an ACORN staffer
points out their plans
are illegal,
she also suggests that the
girls can be claimed
as dependents.
“What if they are going
to be making money because
they are performing
tricks too?”
the pimp says.
“If they making money
and they are underage,
then you shouldn’t be letting
anybody know anyway,”
the ACORN staffer says,
and laughs.
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“It’s illegal.
So I am not hearing this,
I am not hearing this.
You talk too much.
Don’t give up no
information you’re
not asked.”
The “pimp” then asks
ACORN staffers to “promise”
not to discriminate against
his sex worker because of
“who she is and
what she does,”
according to the audiotape.
“If we don’t have
the information,
then how are we going
to discriminate?”
the ACORN staffer replies.
“You see what I am saying?”
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If the girls are
under age 16,
the ACORN staffer says
on the tape,
then they are not legally
allowed to work in the state,
regardless of what they do.
“So it’s like they
don’t even exist?”
“Kenya” asks.
“Exactly,”
the ACORN staffer replies.
“It’s like they
don’t even exist.”
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The staffer goes on to
suggest that as many as
three of the underage girls
can be listed as dependents
at the home,
but a “flag” will be raised
if as many as 13 are listed.
“You are gonna
use three of them,”
the staffer says.
“They are gonna
be under 16,
so you is eligible to get
child tax credit and
additional child tax credit.”
The ACORN workers also
appear to be promoting the
group’s services to the
“pimp” and “Kenya.”
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A second ACORN employee
can be heard on the audiotape
suggesting that the couple
join the organization for an
annual cost of $120 prior
to attending one of its first-time
homebuyer seminars,
which are underwritten
with taxpayer funds.
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Later,
when the “pimp” asks what
would happen if the
organization is somehow
connected to the scheme,
the ACORN staffer replies,
“First of all,
it’s not gonna damage us
because we not gonna know.
And with your girls,
you tell them,
‘Be careful.’
Train them to keep
their mouth shut.”
“These girls are like 14,
how can we trust them?”
the pimp asks.
“Just be very, very careful,”
the ACORN staffer says.
“Whatever you do,
always keep your eyes in
the back of your head.”
Reached by FOX News,
O’Keefe said he was “shocked”
at the level of assistance
provided by ACORN staffers.
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“I was prepared for
them to call the police,
throw me out of the
office and be hostile,”
he said.
“Without hesitation,
they helped me every
way they could with evading
taxes and setting me
up with a brothel,
with getting around
federal tax laws —
doing everything they
could to help us.
I was completely shocked.”
House Republicans issued
a report in July accusing
ACORN of engaging in a
scheme to use taxpayer
money to support a partisan
political agenda.
California Rep. Darrell Issa,
the top Republican on the
House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform,
called for a criminal investigation
into the group, which dismissed
the report as a
“partisan attack job.”
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