{"id":8976,"date":"2010-03-02T06:46:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2010-03-02T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T11:54:10","slug":"take-the-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8976","title":{"rendered":"ACORN: Not Technically Criminals In NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/02\/acorn-workers-cleared-nyc-prostitute-video\/\">here&#8230;:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217;s Office said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;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).<\/p>\n<p>Will the left portray it as &#8220;ACORN did nothing wrong?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are gratified that the district attorney, after a thorough investigation, found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by ACORN,&#8221; said a statement by Jean Sassine, a spokeswoman for the organization that has replaced ACORN&#8217;s Brooklyn operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, not <em>there, <\/em>anyway.<\/p>\n<p>But give it time.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 But was the Brooklyn DA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foundingbloggers.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/the-best-da-money-can-buy\/\">in the bag for ACORN<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what we have here&#8230;: 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&#8217;s Office said Monday. The office began its investigation Sept. 15, the day after the video was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8978,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}