ACORN: Not Technically Criminals In NYC

So what we have here…:

ACORN employees caught on video apparently advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend to lie about her profession and launder her earnings did not commit a crime, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said Monday.

The office began its investigation Sept. 15, the day after the video was released online by the conservative activists who posed as an outlaw couple seeking help buying a house. It was but one in a series of such videos filmed at ACORN offices around the country that sparked a national scandal and helped drive the organization to near ruin.

…is the admission that there is no law against telling people how to set up a brothel in Brooklyn. Which, to be fair, is probably also the (lack of) law in your county, too (Rent a building, get a no-interest loan from a city community development fund, get some hookers).

Will the left portray it as “ACORN did nothing wrong?”

“We are gratified that the district attorney, after a thorough investigation, found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by ACORN,” said a statement by Jean Sassine, a spokeswoman for the organization that has replaced ACORN’s Brooklyn operation.

Well, not there, anyway.

But give it time.

UPDATE:  But was the Brooklyn DA in the bag for ACORN?

5 thoughts on “ACORN: Not Technically Criminals In NYC

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  2. Actually what was determined from looking at the unedited tapes was that the tapes were edited to be deceptive and that they did not in fact try to promote prostitution. Would you care for links as to what the NY laws actually are and why there was not any illegal or criminal activity by ACORN?

    If you read the transcripts of the video (which doesn’t quite track with what was released either, but …) ACORN was encouraging Giles as the client of ACORN seeking assistance to file tax returns, to clear up her status with the
    IRS, which is what they are supposed to do. Even criminal income is taxable income, including money from pushing drugs, prostitution, illegal gambling, etc.

    A number of states have similar statutes, especially common are the ones for drug money. Because of the potential for self-incrimination, the IRS and state tax organizations allow for the use of alternative descriptions for employment to avoid putting in writing to the government that they are drug dealers or hookers, etc. It is not only legal it is encouraged, and is something that would be fone by any qulified tax preparer in the country….not just ACORN.

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