{"id":356399,"date":"2010-02-23T22:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/new-gop-report-accuses-acorn-of-widespread-corruption\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:01:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T03:01:58","slug":"new-gop-report-accuses-acorn-of-widespread-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/356399","title":{"rendered":"New GOP Report Accuses ACORN Of Widespread Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/money+-+CCUU_1961_19627354_0_0_7043410_300.jpg\" alt=\"New GOP report accuses ACORN of widespread corruption \" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">Republican members of the House Oversight Committee have issued a new report accusing the embattled Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) of political corruption and numerous fraudulent dealings. <\/p>\n<p>The 50,000 page report, titled <em>Follow the Money: ACORN, SEIU and their Political Allies<\/em>, accuses the scandal-plagued organization of voter registration fraud, improper use of taxpayer&#8217;s money and an unlawful partnership with a major labor union. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Perceptions that ACORN is a charitable organization are simply wrong and part of ACORN&#8217;s efforts to deceive the American people,&quot; said Representative Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the top Republican on the committee. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;ACORN is a political machine that uses a complex corporate web [and] powerful political allies to break laws in pursuit of a partisan agenda,&quot; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The report also alleges that ACORN contributed to the financial collapse by intimidating banks into lowering mortgage lending standards, <em>Fox News<\/em> reports. Moreover, it accuses the organization of entering into an illegal agreement with the Service Employees International Union, a partnership that has been used to target political candidates, Republicans say. <\/p>\n<p>Officials with the group are currently challenging Congress&#8217; decision to strip ACORN of its financing in federal court. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19627354-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19627354\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican members of the House Oversight Committee have issued a new report accusing the embattled Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) of political corruption and numerous fraudulent dealings. The 50,000 page report, titled Follow the Money: ACORN, SEIU and their Political Allies, accuses the scandal-plagued organization of voter registration fraud, improper use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}