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It’s Alive! Report: 170 ACORN-affiliated groups still active
Many of ACORN’s affiliates, allies, and old chapters remain active under different names—and at least two have received federal dollars—despite the left-wing community-organizing group’s official dissolution and ban on receiving federal funds, according to a new report.
Cause of Action, a nonprofit government watchdog group, recently identified174 active or rebranded ACORN affiliates, as well as organizations that share former ACORN staff.
The groups shared the same physical location, leadership or staff, or tax ID number as old ACORN chapters, Cause of Action said.
At least two of the groups, Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA) and Mutual Housing Association of New York (MHANY), have received federal dollars. According to MHANY, it receives funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Fannie Mae.
“It’s a serious concern because, as we stated in our letter to the IRS, it has been engaging in political activity,” Cause of Action executive director Dan Epstein told the Free Beacon. “We have concerns that these rebranded groups are using the same model that ACORN essentially trademarked: getting tax-exempt funds and using them for political purposes.”
Iago the Parrot
August 29th, 2012
I think I’ll die from not surprise.
jwm
August 29th, 2012
Protecting the rights of fraudsters to fraud.
Noble work, that.
JWM
Ma Deuce
August 29th, 2012
John Kerry again! Stumbling doofus.
GW Bear
August 29th, 2012
@Ma Deuce,
You beat me to it, I was going to ask why they had a picture of Kerry.
Unruly Refugee
August 29th, 2012
They never went away. The democrats can’t scam enough votes without them. I hope the list of new names is complete so they can be monitored.