Remember that ACORN $1Mil embezzlement scandal?
Turns out it wasn't One Million Dollars, it was Five Million Dollars that ACORN co-founder Dale Rathke embezzled from ACORN -- our tax dollars at work.
The full scoop at
NOLA:
ACORN embezzlement was $5 million, La. attorney general says
Louisiana's attorney general has broadened the scope of an investigation of ACORN to include a possible embezzlement of $5 million a decade ago within the community organization, five times more than previously reported.
ACORN Chief Executive Officer Bertha Lewis said the new reported amount is "completely false."
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has been conducting an investigation of ACORN since June. He issued subpoenas in August seeking documents related to former ACORN International President Wade Rathke and his brother Dale Rathke, who kept the group's books. Those subpoenas were focused on possible ACORN violations for non-payment of employee withholding taxes, obstructing justice and violating the Employee Retirement Security Act. No charges have been made.
The attorney general had inquired in June into an alleged embezzlement within ACORN that happened 10 years ago. The group last year dealt with an internal dispute and a lawsuit involving accusations that Dale Rathke made nearly $1 million in improper credit card charges in 1999 and 2000. The brother and a donor repaid the money.
And not to forget that in addition to forming ACORN, the Rathke's also founded SEIU. The whole organization is a bunch of shell games designed to skim taxpayer dollars while looking like they are helping the urban black poor.
Their appearance of careful management is more like a careful management of appearances.
Resource extraction writ large...
Hat tip to
Big Government for the link.
Posted by DaveH at October 5, 2009 9:07 PM