{"id":517394,"date":"2010-04-05T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T03:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/liberty\/california-attorney-general-clears-acorn-of-any-criminal-wrongdoing\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T23:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T03:00:35","slug":"california-attorney-general-clears-acorn-of-any-criminal%c2%a0wrongdoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/517394","title":{"rendered":"California Attorney General Clears ACORN Of Any Criminal\u00a0Wrongdoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Gavel+CCU_1961_19703808_0_0_7048658_300.jpg\" alt=\"California attorney general clears ACORN of any criminal wrongdoing\" align=\"right\" class=\"post_image\">California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued a report on Thursday stating that he will not prosecute employees from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or the conservative activists who posed as a prostitute and pimp on a notorious videotape that incriminated the controversial anti-poverty group last year. <\/p>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s office launched the investigation in September after the release of video evidence showing two ACORN employees allegedly giving financial advice to the couple and helping them evade taxation. <\/p>\n<p>While announcing that his office will not press charges against the organization, Brown, the leading Democratic candidate for governor in California, said the ACORN employees engaged in &quot;highly inappropriate behavior&quot; and that their organization was &quot;disorganized and very poorly managed.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A few ACORN members exhibited terrible judgment in videotapes obtained in the investigation,&quot; Brown said. &quot;But they didn&#8217;t commit prosecutable crimes in California.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>However, the report also indicated that the organization probably violated several civil laws, including dumping 500 pages of confidential information into the trash, failing to file a state tax return and possibly engaging in voter registration fraud in San Diego, <i>The Los Angeles Times<\/i> reports. <br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-1961-ID-19703808-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19703808\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Attorney General Jerry Brown issued a report on Thursday stating that he will not prosecute employees from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or the conservative activists who posed as a prostitute and pimp on a notorious videotape that incriminated the controversial anti-poverty group last year. Brown&#8217;s office launched the investigation [&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-517394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517394","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=517394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}