Al Sharpton's group targets its next victims

The pressure group run by racial arsonist, con man, tax cheat, and absconding debtor Al Sharpton is lining up some fresh victims.

The Harlem-based National Action Network (NAN), a tax-exempt 501c4 advocacy group, runs a project called the Madison Avenue Initiative. A NAN press release explains its purpose:

"Our goal is to create more business alliances between the corporate and government public service sectors and the many viable black and latino-owned agencies and media.  We're seeing more opportunities for a greater share of the marketing mix," said Rev. Al Sharpton, founder of the National Action Network. "Another area of concern is hiring and training for black and latino marketing professionals and students.  Establishing a process that promotes access and consideration is critical to linking qualified candidates to opportunities."
Since March, Sharpton and Madison Avenue Initiative director Munson Steed have initiated communication with corporate and government executives to discuss increased recruitment and engagement.
"We're finding that corporate CEOs are open to discussing ways to engage more of our agencies, media and professionals to help them meet their business goals," said Steed.  "We're devoting 2011 to opening more doors and creating more synergy that will be mutually beneficial for all parties." [....]

So NAN, an ACORN wannabe group, has "initiated communication with corporate and government executives," eh?

Was that communication by means of a bullhorn or was it through a threatening letter? Maybe a brick with a note tied to it?

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

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After encouraging child prostitution, now ACORN is suddenly worried about it.

The Black Institute, a new ACORN front group created by ACORN's final national chief organizer Bertha Lewis, has published a deliciously ironic blog post:

An estimated 300,000 new girls enter the commercial sex industry each year. The Department of Justice estimates that the most frequent age of entry into the commercial sex industry in the United States is 12-14 years old. A demographic study of sex trafficking in the United States has never been done, so no exact figures are known, but, according to the FBI, for arrests under the age of 18, Black children make up 55 % of all prostitution-related arrests in the U.S. – more than any other racial group. Girls of color are suffering disproportionately at the hands of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC).

Lewis wasn't too concerned about child prostitution when ACORN workers bent over backwards in 2009 to offer helpful advice to a pretend pimp and prostitute who wanted to set up a brothel for pedophiles.

Lewis lied and lied and lied in a futile effort to get ACORN out of its predicament. If only ACORN had cared about the scourge of child prostitution back then.

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

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Mississippi NAACP leader sent to prison for 10 counts of voter fraud

The NAACP is trying to outdo ACORN in the realm of voter fraud.

While Stephen Colbert was busy mocking Republicans and this writer for daring to think voter fraud is a serious problem, NAACP official Lessadolla Sowers was sitting in jail, sentenced to five years imprisonment for 10 counts of voter fraud.

And this wasn't just voter registration fraud, one of the most common forms of voter fraud. Sowers cast ballots in the names of 10 actual people, four of whom were dead at the time.

All is revealed in a just-published article I wrote for The Daily Caller.

Of course none of this matters to kooky left-wing propagandists like Brad Friedman who thinks voter fraud is a figment of your imagination. (Friedman is a frequent fill-in host for sociopathic radio ranter Mike Malloy.) Friedman, like other socialists, communists, and Democrats says voter fraud doesn't exist.

Ha.

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy the book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

ACORN’s Garbage Stunt at Wells Fargo Backfires

Nobody ever said all the criminal street thugs at ACORN were bright.

The left-wing astroturfers of ACORN’s new front group in California, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), were behind a garbage-dumping stunt at a branch of Wells Fargo bank in San Jose, Calif.

News reports consistently depict the players as angry homeowners who spontaneously erupted in a spasm of righteous indignation. As if.

These “homeowners” were reportedly unhappy about the upkeep at a foreclosed property they thought Wells Fargo was responsible for so they decided to dump uncollected garbage at the bank. The problem is that while Wells Fargo is listed as a trustee for the property, it is actually owned by Bank of America, a longtime ACORN ally. (In recent years Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc. has given $5 million to the mortgage bubble generators at ACORN Housing Corp.)

In a still from a TV news report on ACORN’s act of political theater an angry protester can be seen holding a sign that reads: “MAKE THE BANKS PAY! ACCE.” (The full video is embedded below.)

Whoops.

ACORN has long waged a war against Wells Fargo. As I explain in my new book Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, the competitors of Wells Fargo paid ACORN handsomely to blacken the bank's name.

Predatory lenders Herb and Marion Sandler paid ACORN $11 million over the years to attack Wells Fargo, the main competition in California for their lending institution, World Savings Bank. The Sandlers are radical left-wingers who belong to George Soros’s Democracy Alliance, a club of billionaires that funds political infrastructure aimed at pushing America to the left.

The Sandlers are loan sharks whom Time magazine included in its “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis” list. They preyed on the poor for years and paid ACORN, which also preys on the poor, to help them.

Such garbage.

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy the book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

Talk radio legend Bob Grant interviews author Matthew Vadum

The legendary Bob Grant (77 WABC New York City) interviewed me about my book Subversion Inc. on July 24, 2011. 


Here's the radio interview turned into a YouTube video:

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

Buy the book Subversion Inc. at Amazon and in Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million bookstores. Visit the Subversion Inc. Facebook page. Follow me on Twitter.

Does Obama support SEIU/ACORN-led economic terror campaign against JPMorgan Chase?

Does President Obama approve of the SEIU/ACORN-led economic terrorism campaign that is now directed at JPMorgan Chase?

It seems like a reasonable question to ask. SEIU is President Obama’s favorite union and ACORN is his favorite community organizing outfit.

The campaign, engineered by SEIU board member Stephen Lerner, is designed, in Lerner’s words, “to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate ... there are actually extraordinary things that we could do right now that would start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.”

According to White House visitor logs, “Stephen Lerner” paid four visits to the Obama White House. On two of those visits he apparently met with then-White House political director Patrick Gaspard, a former executive vice president at the militant SEIU Local 1199. Gaspard, a longtime ACORN operative and Alinskyite, is now executive director of the DNC where he oversees the odious Organizing for America project.

I wonder what they talked about. Hmmmm.

Obama has named SEIU officials to senior posts in his administration, including former SEIU lawyer Craig Becker whom Obama sleazily recess-appointed to the National Labor Relations Board. Becker is a kind of fascist, or more precisely, a syndicalist. He thinks no one should have the right not to join a union: people should only get to choose which union to join. (Incidentally, Becker lied to a congressional committee when he denied having ties to ACORN.)

Earlier this year Lerner said that after consulting his allies he decided that JPMorgan Chase would be “a really good company to hate.” If leftists really believe capitalism is in a “transformative stage,” they “need to confront this in a serious way and develop a real ability to put a boot in the wheel.”

Not coincidentally, Obama has had a falling out with JPMorgan Chase. Although some once described the bank’s chairman Jamie Dimon as “Obama’s favorite banker,” their bromance is on the rocks now that Obama habitually demonizes bankers as “fat cats.”

The SEIU/ACORN war against JPMorgan Chase has recently kicked into high gear.

ACORN’s newly renamed chapters in New York (New York Communities for Change), California (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment), Missouri (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment), and Washington state (Organization United for Reform) make no secret about their participation in the subversive scheme.

Obama officials admit POTUS was lying about default

President Obama has no intention of allowing the U.S. government to default on its financial obligations regardless of whether the government's borrowing limit is raised, Charlie Gasparino of Fox Business reports.

This means that the president has been bargaining in bad faith with congressional leaders by raising the specter of a default, knowing full well he won't allow it to happen. This is another way of putting it: the president has been lying to the nation.

As Gasparino writes

While officials from the Obama Administration raised their rhetoric over the weekend about the possibility of a debt default if the debt ceiling isn't raised, they privately have been telling top executives at major U.S. banks that such an event won't happen, FOX Business has learned.
In a series of phone calls, administration officials have told bankers that the administration will not allow a default to happen even if the debt cap isn't raised by the August 2 date Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner says the government will run out of money to pay all its bills, including obligations to bond holders. Geithner made the rounds on the Sunday talk shows saying a default is imminent if the debt ceiling isn't raised, and President Obama issued a similar warning during a Friday press conference after budget negotiations with House Republicans broke down.

It's business as usual for Obama. The truth is just an obstacle on the road to socialist utopia.

Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky would be so proud.

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America needs to know that ACORN is restructuring in time to help re-elect President Obama in 2012. Obama used to work for ACORN and represented the group in court as its lawyer. These radical leftists who use the brutal, in-your-face, pressure tactics of Saul Alinsky want to destroy America as we know it and will use any means to do it.

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Lost in translation? No, Russia Today, I don't support raising the U.S. debt ceiling and I didn't say it should be raised

I was on Russia Today yesterday, the cable channel owned and operated by the Russian government.

RT's website claims I said the U.S. government must raise its borrowing limit and keep on spending.

For the record, I may have been a bit tired at the end of a long day Monday when the segments were taped, but that doesn't mean I took leave of my senses. Although I didn't take a position outright on the program, I don't support raising the debt ceiling. It isn't necessary. The government is taking in all the money it needs to meet its obligations.

If you watch the RT video embedded in this blog post you will see that I simply explained the situation the U.S. and investors face and how politicians are reacting to it. (There is a second video showing me at the RT website. Scroll down and click on the video at the bottom of the page immediately below the phrase "drastically cutting spending and implementing severe austerity measures.")

BREAKING: ‘New’ ACORN Groups Join SEIU’s Economic Terrorism Campaign Against Lenders, Governments

Newly created ACORN front groups across America have signed on to SEIU’s economic terrorism and sabotage campaign. ACORN, long associated with President Obama, is participating in the disruptive campaign through its newly renamed state chapters. Mortgage and student loan strikes, crippling bank boycotts, intimidation, and who knows what else are all on the agenda.

I reported on the emergence of the “new” ACORN groups in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers. Although ACORN filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy last Election Day, its state chapters have been quietly restructuring under assumed names. Mortgage bubble generator ACORN Housing changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America while ACORN’s vote fraud factory Project Vote continues operating out of ACORN’s old Washington, D.C. office.

The subversive plan hatched by Stephen Lerner, an international board member of the radical Service Employees International Union, aims to destroy the nation’s financial system. Lerner is influential in leftist organizing circles and has reportedly visited the Obama White House at least four times.

After Greeks rioted over austerity measures, the stock market fell, Lerner observed. “The folks that control this country care about one thing: how the stock market does; how the bond market does; and what their bonus is.”

Lerner said a strategy was needed that addressed the following questions: “How do we bring down the stock market, how do we bring down their bonuses, how do we interfere with their ability … to be rich?” It is important “to politically isolate them, economically isolate them and disrupt them,” he said.

JPMorgan Chase is the first target of SEIU and its longtime allies at ACORN. Other Saul Alinsky-inspired pressure groups nationwide are participating in the effort, including the Alinsky-founded Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), National People’s Action (NPA), PICO National Network, and Alliance for a Just Society, according to ChaseHomeFinanceSux.com.

Amusingly, the latter website highlights an article called “Jamie Dimon is Running ‘A House of Ill Repute.’” As Big Government readers are aware, James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles captured ACORN workers on undercover videos giving helpful advice on establishing a house of ill repute, an old-fashioned expression for a brothel.

Earlier this year Lerner said that after consulting his allies he decided that JPMorgan Chase would be “a really good company to hate.” If leftists really believe capitalism is in a “transformative stage,” they “need to confront this in a serious way and develop a real ability to put a boot in the wheel.” Said Lerner

… we really are trying to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate … there are actually extraordinary things that we could do right now that would start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.

Echoing the infamous Cloward-Piven Strategy of orchestrated crisis, Lerner said a nationwide mortgage strike would be a nightmare for Wall Street. He noted that 25 percent of homeowners now own a home worth less than they paid for it. Of those “under water” homeowners, 10 percent “are now in strategic default, meaning they’re refusing to pay but they’re staying in their homes.” The homeowners, who figured out it might take lenders a year to foreclose on their mortgages and evict them, should be urged to stay put. “If you could double that number, you would … put banks on the edge of insolvency again.”

Lerner said banks that don’t pay their “fair share” in taxes or refuse to slash interest rates and partially forgive mortgage principal are being targeted. He also called for state and local governments to stop doing business with banks that refuse to become de facto relief agencies by redistributing their own wealth to homeowners who made dumb investment decisions.

ACORN’s newly renamed chapters in New York (New York Communities for Change), California (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment), Missouri (Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment), and Washington state (Organization United for Reform) make no secret about their participation in the scheme.

Kook Lefty Bloggers Say Sarah Palin, The Right, Caused the Norway Massacres

Often the Left is so predictable.

While Norway mourns the deaths of the 92 (so far) shooting victims, kook bloggers at FireDogLake, Democratic Underground, and elsewhere are already labelling the alleged killer to be "right wing." This meme appears to have started with a comment made by a Norwegian political science professor who speculated that the shooter might be "right wing."

Even Sarah Palin is now being blamed for the shooting because the suspect reportedly favored the creation of a European Tea Party.

The media keeps repeating the mantra that the shooter is "right wing." But what does it even mean to be "right wing" in Norway?

The American media doesn't have a clue. American journos would much prefer to parrot a fuzzy idea than offer genuine insight into what happened in Norway.

Very broadly speaking, to be on the right is to favor the status quo or a status quo ante. To be on the left is to favor change or something new. The terms came out of the French Revolutionary period.

Right and left are awful, imprecise descriptors but for whatever reason they have remained popular.

Use of the terms can lead to characterizations of political movements that are absurd on their face. For example, those wanting to topple the Communist system in the Soviet Union of the late 1980s could quite plausibly be referred to as "left wing" even if they wanted to replace Communism with free market capitalism. And I've read more than once in a political science article the bizarre phrase "right-wing socialism."

In much of Europe "left" and "right" mean roughly the opposite of what the terms mean in American political discourse.

Norway's nearby neighbor, Denmark, which is what Americans would consider to be a left-of-center country, is governed by a party called Venstre. 

What does Venstre mean in the Danish language? "The Left."

Although Denmark has a huge welfare state and high taxes, Venstre is pro-free market. In America, because Venstre favors less government, it would be labelled "right wing."

This is perhaps too difficult for Reuters and AP and the New York Times to understand.

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Vadum on Bob Grant Show Sunday 12:20 p.m. ET

I'll be on the highest-rated radio station in America (77 WABC, New York) from 12:20 to 12:30 Eastern time Sunday afternoon. (Live streaming online available at WABCradio.com.)

The show is "The Bob Grant Show," hosted by the legendary Bob Grant, the man who invented conservative talk radio. We'll be discussing my provocative new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

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Voter Fraud: What a knee slapper! Matthew Vadum on "The Colbert Report"

I was on "The Colbert Report" last night -- for maybe a second, held up for ridicule because I believe voter fraud is a bad thing. (full video at bottom of this post)

All I'm quoted saying is the phrase "voter fraud" in a segment mocking the idea that such a thing even exists in America.

As I've shown in my book, Subversion Inc., voter fraud is amazingly prevalent.

Over 54 people associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud, which is a blanket term covering myriad election law infractions.

Hilarious, isn't it?

(hat tip BruinKid at Daily Kos, my favorite kook site)

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American Prospect's Gabriel Arana joins the ACORN 'Useful Idiot' Club

The list of ACORN's defenders in the media continues to grow.

Gabriel Arana is the latest useful idiot to join the club. Here's what this dishonest leftist wrote in a piece concerning Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.):

The entire story has all the trappings of a contrived scandal; one cannot but draw a parallel to the James O’Keefe ACORN hullabaloo, in which O’Keefe posed as a pimp seeking advice about his prostitution business and then edited the tape to smear the organization. To be sure, all journalism—on the right as well as the left—tends toward sensationalism, and no doubt part of the interest in Bachmann coincides with her presidential run.

There’s a crucial difference between the ACORN smear campaign and that against the Bachmann clinic, however. [emphasis added]

As anyone who followed the undercover ACORN video saga knows, the videos were not dishonestly edited. James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles were welcomed with open arms by almost everyone they dealt with at ACORN when they pitched their make-believe brothel for pedophiles proposal.

The Left is trying to rewrite the narrative on ACORN to make it seem like the organized crime syndicate was somehow victimized by O'Keefe, Giles, Internet news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart, and God knows who else.

It's hogwash. ACORN is evil, corrupt, subversive, and criminal and it got what it deserved (besides, it's not quite dead, either).

ACORN still exists, as I have documented in my acclaimed new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, and ACORN sources have confirmed that it is gearing up to resurface under a new name in time to help re-elect President Obama, a former ACORN employee.

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Barack Obama and the Enemies Within

Researcher extraordinaire Trevor Loudon has written a book on the radicalism of President Obama and his allies.

It's called Barack Obama and the Enemies Within and it's coming out soon.

Loudon is cited in my book Subversion Inc.

More hate speech from Media Matters

The fascists at Media Matters for America (MMfA) never tire of their war on free speech. All views on the right are labeled by the George Soros-funded group as conservative misinformation, i.e. hate speech.

Now these cretins are trying to stir up xenophobic hatred towards News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Australia. It's the same kind of tactic they routinely accuse conservatives of.

An email just went out from MMfA with the subject line, "Not in America, Mr. Murdoch."

It refers to the News Corp. hacking scandal way over in Britain. MMfA smells blood in the water and wants to use the scandal to shut down News Corp.'s most valuable property in America, Fox News.

Here's the email:



From: "Matt Butler, Media Matters for America" <info@mediamatters.org>
Subject: Not in America, Mr. Murdoch
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:20:40 -0400
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


July 17, 2011

Dear Friend,

One of the great things about our country is that no matter how powerful and influential you are, you are not above the law.

No one knows that better today than Rupert Murdoch after the FBI launched an investigation into claims that reporters at News Corp. tried to hack into the phones of 9-11 victims' families.

If true, it's shameful, and the FBI has taken a good first step. But it's not enough. We need a thorough probe from Congress and the Justice Department to understand just how far the lies, illegal practices, and damages go.


DON'T LET RUPERT MURDOCH ESCAPE THE TRUTH!

SIGN OUR PETITION DEMANDING A FULL, PUBLIC INVESTIGATION.

We saw the British spend 6 years waiting to hold Murdoch accountable for these offenses. In those 6 years, there were 4,000 victims, including a terror victim, politicians, celebrities, and a 13-year old teenager who was tragically murdered. Why did it take so long? Because Murdoch is so powerful that people were afraid to stand up to him.

Not here. In the last 48 hours, over 100,000 people have signed a petition for thorough investigations and members of Congress from both sides of the aisle have stepped forward in agreement. We can't stop now.

If you'll stand with Media Matters, America's premier media monitoring organization, we won't let Rupert Murdoch escape the truth.

Let's get at the truth. Join in demanding a full investigation into whether News Corp.'s corrupt behavior extended to its U.S. holdings.

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BREAKING: Even As They Devour Your Tax Dollars, the Deadbeat Thugs of ACORN Housing Owe $163,000 in Back Taxes

The criminals at ACORN, President Obama’s former employer, never stop ripping off American taxpayers.

The massive conglomerate ACORN Housing Corp. and its subsidiaries owe an eye-popping $162,813 in back taxes, according to the Nexis public records database.

The money is owed to the IRS, California, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, the city of Philadelphia, and the California counties of Fresno and Santa Clara. (The 106 tax liens are listed at the bottom of this article.)

Like a con artist trying to escape his past, ACORN Housing legally changed its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America Inc. (AHCOA).

ACORN Housing grew out of crime: trespassing and breaking and entering. It emerged from a 1982 squatting campaign in which ACORN built a squatters’ tent city behind the White House. Rampaging ACORN activists routinely break in and illegally occupy property already owned by others – and your tax dollars subsidize this criminal activity, as I write in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers.

ACORN Housing also helped to inflate the mortgage bubble. It bragged in a 1999 pamphlet that it had strong-armed banks into accepting food stamps and welfare as income on home loan applications.

Even now as America struggles with grave financial problems, the “new” ACORN Housing is going all out to get its hands on your hard-earned money.

AHCOA and its subsidiaries now have 32 “DUNS” numbers that have been officially registered. DUNS stands for Data Universal Numbering System. Since 2003 the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has required applicants to obtain DUNS numbers in order to seek federal grants, so without them ACORN can’t feed at the public trough.

Posing as a new tax-exempt organization, ACORN Housing in San Antonio, Texas will receive an undisclosed percentage of a $619,696 federal grant. The subgrant comes from the federal National Foreclosure Mitigation Counseling (NFMC) program.

The subgrant will probably be a fraction of the $6,184,168 in government grants ACORN Housing acknowledges receiving in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2010. (The $6,184,168 figure appears at page 9 of the group’s most recent publicly available tax return.)

Tax dollars given to ACORN Housing apparently don’t stay in ACORN Housing’s bank accounts for very long. Since 1997, ACORN Housing has shelled out more than $5.1 million in fees or grants to other entities in the ACORN network.

In 2008 alone, over 67 percent of gift and grants to ACORN Housing came from the federal government (and Bank of America). According to its tax returns, ACORN Housing gave $4,057,174 to the ACORN affiliate known as the American Institute for Social Justice, which has trained generations of Saul Alinsky-inspired organizers in the antisocial art of political agitation.

Investigators got wise to ACORN’s Enron-style accounting years ago. According to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee investigators, the group participates in a “shell-game of corporate financing that enables ACORN to commingle funds and potentially divert federal monies into partisan activities in violation of federal law.”

Meanwhile, it turns out that the $461,086 grant to AHCOA I reported on Monday was rescinded by President Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

This gets complicated, so bear with me.

After the article was published here, HUD spokesman Jereon M. Brown contacted me by email. Brown acknowledged that the government’s USAspending.gov database referred to the money but said that a subsequent entry indicated that the award was canceled. “This amount was de-obligated and recovered,” he said. (The money was an unexpended portion of a block of funds from fiscal 2005, as detailed in the Federal Register.)

Through a quirk in the way the government reports on grants, even when a grant is withdrawn it is first reported in the database. After that, the cancellation of the grant is then reported in the same database. A separate item in the USAspending.gov database shows the rescission, Brown noted. The database “tracks dollars granted and it also tracks money recouped to provide an accurate snapshot to taxpayers,” he said.

This would appear to mean that in January when the Obama administration disallowed the $461,086 grant, it chose to obey the congressional ban on funding ACORN. That ban applies to monies appropriated in fiscal 2010 and previous fiscal years.

But just two months later, the Obama administration ignored the law when it provided a $79,819 grant to AHCOA. That grant came out of fiscal 2010 appropriations.

So in January funding AHCOA was a no-no, but March arrives and voila! – magically an Obama check gets cut.

What changed between January and March?

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TABLE OF TAX LIENS PENDING AGAINST ACORN HOUSING (a.k.a. AFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF AMERICA) AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES

Click on the chart below to enlarge it.

AHC = ACORN Housing Corp.

Whoops! It turns out Obama gave ACORN $541K this year, not the $80K previously reported

Updated the same night: Developing...see the bottom of this entry.

Remember that story from a few days ago, the one about the Obama administration giving ACORN a $79,819 grant in March despite a federal law that prohibits the government from giving money to ACORN?

It turns out that sum is a lowball figure.

I discovered Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave ACORN another $461,086 in January. The funds were earmarked for ACORN Housing Corp. in January under HUD's Self-help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP), according to the government website USAspending.gov.

In order words, the Obama administration gave fraud-ridden ACORN nearly a half million dollars to be used on housing development.

The administration isn't even trying to conceal the fact that it gave this money to ACORN. USAspending.gov identifies the recipient as "ACORN Housing Corporation Inc." even though that nonprofit entity filed papers last year legally changing its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA).

The website also provides the address of record for ACORN Housing as 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. That's the renovated funeral home that until recently served as headquarters for ACORN's 370-plus shady affiliates.

This means the Obama administration has given at least $540,905 in taxpayer money to ACORN this calendar year alone.

The money was given to ACORN apparently in defiance of Public Law 111-117 which spells out in pretty clear terms that ACORN shouldn't be getting any government funding.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. More grants to ACORN are bound to surface.

As I warn in my new book, Subversion Inc.: How Obama's ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers, ACORN is still with us, doing its best to destroy American capitalism and democracy.

The group is gearing up right now to make sure President Obama, who worked for ACORN as an employee and as its lawyer, gets reelected in 2012. Its state chapters have adopted assumed names and remain active. Project Vote, ACORN's vote manufacturing factory, continues to operate unmolested in ACORN's Washington, D.C. office. ACORN International (a.k.a. Community Organizations International) has spreadwide worldwide and is now operating in many countries, including Canada, Peru, Kenya, Dominican Republic, and India.

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Developing…

After this article was published, HUD spokesman Jereon M. Brown contacted the writer by email. Brown acknowledged the government’s USAspending.gov database reported that the $461,086 HUD grant was made to ACORN Housing, but said the award was actually rescinded. “This amount was de-obligated and recovered,” he said.

Intriguingly, ACORN Housing (a.k.a. Affordable Housing Centers of America) reports in its most recent publicly available tax return (PDF) that it took in $6,184,168 in government grants in the fiscal year that ran from July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010 (see page 9 on the PDF).

Public Law 111-117, signed Dec. 16, 2009 by President Obama, states that “[n]one of the funds made available under this Act or any prior Act may be provided to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied organizations.” [see p. 80 of PDF] [emphasis added]