Surprise! Brooklyn Prosecutors Clear ACORN

Imagine my shock to find out a hack New York prosecutor like Charles Hynes cleared the criminal enterprise ACORN. You don't suppose this could be politically motivated?

Brooklyn prosecutors on Monday cleared ACORN of criminal wrongdoing after a four-month probe that began when undercover conservative activists filmed workers giving what appeared to be illegal advice on how to hide money.

While the video by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles seemed to show three ACORN workers advising a prostitute how to hide ill-gotten gains, the unedited version was not as clear, according to a law enforcement source.

"They edited the tape to meet their agenda," said the source.

O'Keefe and Giles - who visited ACORN offices in several cities, including its Brooklyn headquarters - stirred controversy when they posted the videos on their Web site.

They were hailed as heroes by the likes of Rush Limbaugh and their footage led several government agencies to temporarily cut funding for ACORN as the prosecutors opened an investigation.

"On Sept. 15, 2009, my office began an investigation into possible criminality on the part of three ACORN employees," Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said in a one-paragraph statement issued Monday afternoon.

"That investigation is now concluded and no criminality has been found."

Of course there's editing in the process. Has Hynes seen all of O'Keefe's footage? It will be interesting to see O'Keefe's response. If there's video Hynes did not see he'll have some explaining to do. I don't see any reaction at Big Government as of yet.

ACORN is now talking tough. Let's see how long that lasts.

"Acorn is gratified that the DA has concluded something we knew all along," ACORN lawyer Arthur Schwartz said, adding it was "unfortunate" the O'Keefe and Giles used "subterfuge to convince congress and the media to vilify an organization that didn't deserve it."

A smug Media Matters thug currently feuding with Andrew Breitbart, among others, is gloating.

Update: More here with revelations about the DA's ties to WFP/ACORN.

Hannah Giles Has Some Question for the Media

Since Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe exposed ACORN and the media as total frauds, it seems the media still hasn't learned their lesson.

Hannah has some questions for the liberal media today.

But rather than simply pointing a finger and complaining, here are some loose ends the media ignored, from our footage alone, that warrant attention.

With regard to the children:

· Baltimore-Why no mention of the toddlers that were in the room while James and I were being counseled on how to manage our underage prostitution ring?

· San Bernardino-The content of this video was largely ignored except for the part where Tresa Kaelke mentions she shot her husband. What about when she told us not to educate our sex-slaves because they won’t want to work for us? Or when we talked about making more money off clients who are permitted to physically abuse the girls? What about the whole transport-the-girls-in-a-school-bus-to-avoid-suspicion discussion?

Attention to the masses:

· Washington, DC- Why were we counseled by ACORN during a first time homebuyer’s seminar, while 30-40 other first time homebuyers sat scrammed in a hot room?

· Brooklyn- This office was swarmed with people, busy staff members and a full waiting room. Did we take our number and wait in line? Nope. Why were we given the private attention of three ACORN staffers, when more deserving and less intrusive clientele patiently waited?

The political games:

· San Bernardino: What happened to the list of politicians that Ms. Kaelke rattled off when she spoke of her ACORN office’s community involvement and influence? Has anyone set out to uncover just how close these politicians relationships are with the San Bernardino ACORN? Does anyone even remember the names?

· San Diego: Has anyone questioned why Juan Carlos would want to help smuggle girls across the Mexican border right after an ACORN-sponsored immigration parade???

· Philadelphia: Why did the Philly office go into damage control mode as soon as the Baltimore story first broke? What do they have to hide?

Good questions all. A shame the state-controlled President Approved Pundits aren't interesting in finding the answers.

No wonder nobody has respect for the media any longer.

Legal Defense Fund Set Up for Hannah Giles

Well, that didn't take long.

ACORN's case against her, James O'Keefe and Andrew Breitbart is incredibly thin and likely meant to intimidate, but I suspect the coffers will fill up quickly.

Can't find one yet but I'm sure O'Keefe will have one soon if he doesn't already.

Here's the home page for the Legal Liberty Institute.

Dumbest Move Ever: ACORN Thugs Sue Giles and O'Keefe

To quote James O'Keefe: Bring. It. On.

ACORN and two former employees of its Baltimore office filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed the employees giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute.

The liberal activist group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland law requires the consent of both parties to record private conversations.

The employees seen in the video, Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams, were fired after it was posted online. Thompson and Williams are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which says they suffered "extreme emotional distress with attendant physical symptoms and injury to their reputations."

The lawsuit names James O'Keefe III and Hannah Giles, who played the pimp and prostitute in the video, as defendants. It also names conservative columnist and blogger Andrew Breitbart of Los Angeles, who posted it on his Web site, biggovernment.com.

Brietbart said he would respond with his lawyer to a request for comment. He told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday that he looked forward to a lawsuit because he expects unsavory details about ACORN to be unearthed in the discovery process.

O'Keefe and Giles could not immediately be reached. Asked by Fox News earlier this month about the possibility of a lawsuit, O'Keefe said, "Bring it on."

Extreme emotional distress.

Heh.

More on this craptastic stupidity here and here.

If the lawyers for the morons have a clue they'll pay a visit to Big Government and realize the futility of it all.

Pre-emptive congratulations to O'Keefe, Giles and Breitbart for laying waste to one of the Democrats' pet organizations. I can smell the smoldering ruins.

'What Did They Do? They Defunded It?'

We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you

Could this woman possibly be more out of touch?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable.

"I don't even know what they passed," Pelosi told The Post yesterday. "What did they do? They defunded it?"

The amendment to suspend housing grants was a stunning blow to the community-activist group -- and came as some Democrats and the White House have been backing away from the group.

The vote was preceded by the release of videos by conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute soliciting -- and receiving -- tips from ACORN employees about how to shield income, avoid taxes and set up a brothel.

Meanwhile, the latest bomb to drop on the thugs at ACORN was released last night.





Via Big Government.

Very classy of this ACORN goon, having no problem with smuggling underage girls across the border so they can become sex slaves.

Meanwhile, the boobs at the White House finally figured out it might be a good time to distance themselves from this criminal enterprise, which for some bizarre reason is still being called an "activist" group.

Democrats are starting to realize their water carriers in the antique media may no longer be able to hold off the dogs.

With more undercover videos allegedly on the way, expect more Democratic elected officials to follow the White House's lead and begin not only distancing themselves from ACORN but also siding with those who are calling for investigations into its conduct.

"Any Democrat who acts or votes to protect ACORN will have an impossible time justifying it, and it will almost be too easy for us to make them pay politically for doing so," predicted Republican strategist Kevin Madden.

No matter how much the former "mainstream media" wanted to ignore this story, it's now the top story in the country, thanks to two kids without formal journalistic training and layers upon layers of editors.

Those layers, of course, would have prevented this scandal from ever becoming news since they're essentially an adjunct of the Democratic Party.

That's now their problem.

Instapundit and Hot Air link. Thanks!

San Bernardino II: Hannah Giles and Her 'Girltalk' With ACORN Freakazoid Tresa Kaelke

After the first video from the San Bernardino ACORN office went public yesterday, Tresa Kaelke lamely tried to spin her way out of it.

This video demolishes that lie.

After Talking with Jim Miller (the man across the street), Tresa and I ended up talking by ourselves for several minutes. She gave me some advice on locations for my underage brothel (based on the political arena) and said that I should have a separate savings account for a lawyer so that if I do get into trouble with the authorities, having a high class lawyer will help my reputation.

Then we moved into the personal side of things.

She went on to talk about how one day, my character (Eden), would break James’ heart. He would be devastated and I need to be careful not to make the wrong person mad, especially since he is a future lawyer and has political aspirations.

She wasn’t fearful. She was bored.

When James came back, she stopped talking about how I was going to break his heart. She switched gears and went on to tell James he has the look of royalty. I thought it strange and was trying to figure out where she was going with the conversation, but then I realized she was trying to help me with the break up process. She was doing this to boost his ego so that heartbreak wouldn’t hit hard, setting me up for an escape from the relationship. A man with confidence and ego is less likely to relish the wounds of heartbreak and rejection… so I jumped in and called her a “fox.” We all laughed, and chatted some more. She gave James some sage wisdom, telling him, “If you love something, let it go.”

Meanwhile, the media's lack of attention to this scandal is so pathetic, even Jon Stewart is now laughing at them.

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New Bombshell ACORN Video From San Bernardino

Can you say busted, boys and girls?

Via Big Government.

James O'Keefe poses as an upcoming politician. Heh. Special added bonus: The ACORN woman confesses to killing her husband. Lovely. Plus she threatens someone else's life. Nice. And she's got the ear of all the local Democrats!

Obama must be so proud of his pals at ACORN.

Devastating stuff. I wonder if any of the antique media will notice? They can't call it racist since I don't see any black people on here.

Important Question of the Day: Want to Know Who Hannah Giles Is?

A question many are asking, and Mark Tapscott dutifully lets us know. A public service for which we are eternally grateful.

Hannah Giles, the young woman who dressed up and posed as a whore in the BigGovernment.com ACORN child prostitution sting videos, is an aspiring investigative reporter and National Journalism Center intern. You can read her Townhall.com bio here. Not familiar with NJC? Go here.

Actually, I shouldn't say "aspiring," as she's already accomplished something nobody from 60 Minutes, The New York Times, or any other mainstrream media thought to do, and that is find a way to expose the dirty truth behind the closed doors of ACORN. She was able to do that because she asked the right question, unemcumbered by the liberal conventional wisdom that blinds so many Mainstream Media journalists.

Reminds me of the undercover video stories done by Diane Sawyer years ago. Remember the green meat stories?

I hope Giles and her partner in this daring enterprise, James O'Keefe, spark a mass movement of young conservatives who decide to become investigative journalists. As I've been telling such folks for years now, there is a target-rich environment out there just waiting to be exposed.

Now, if we could only find some more bikini shots of the lovely Ms. Giles (hey, someone's got to play the role of sexist pig).

Here's an idea: Let's get her and Sarah Palin out on the stump together. Can you imagine the exploding heads?

Just imagine if a 20-year-old liberal helped bring down a corrupt conservative organization. I suspect she'd be getting a lot more media attention.

Here she is on Fox News last night. Obviously her appearing on FNC will preclude any of the other jealous media from paying her any attention.

A Pimp Grows in Brooklyn

Can the humiliation for Barack Obama's pals from ACORN get any worse? Well, of course it could if the rest of the media actually reported the story outside of the New York Post and Big Government.

The scandal surrounding the left-wing activist organization ACORN has spread to New York, with employees at its Brooklyn office caught on video helping supposed ladies of the night get loans for their dream houses of ill repute.

Rather than reminding the women that prostitution is dangerous and illegal and advising them to change their careers, counselors at the social-services group shockingly offer suggestions on how they can launder their earnings.

"Honesty is not going to get you the house," a loan counselor at the offices told two activists posing as a mortgage-seeking pimp and prostitute.

"You can't say what you do for a living."

ACORN workers in two other cities, Baltimore and Washington, DC, had already fallen hooker, line and sinker for the hidden-camera sting operation by two conservative activists.

Four ACORN employees have been fired as a result of the earlier videos, and last Friday the Census Bureau severed its ties with the group, whose members had been hired to do canvassing during the 2010 census.

In an unrelated outrage, ACORN was accused of widespread voter fraud during the 2008 presidential election by helping unqualified voters to register.

As in prior videos released by the filmmaking team of James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, employees of the group -- which specializes in housing and voter activism -- were eager to dispense advice on gaming the system and skirting the law.

"You know, what goes on in the house we don't care," one counselor said. "We just help you with the mortgage."

Of course who could possibly be suspicious when you see these two show up?
Here's Part II of the video.

'We Are Looking Out For You'

Gee, those nice folks at ACORN are just so helpful.

One day after two ACORN officials in Baltimore were fired for offering to help a man and woman posing as a pimp and prostitute to engage in child prostitution and a series of tax crimes, another secretly shot videotape has surfaced that shows the same couple getting similar advice from ACORN officers in Washington.

The newly released videotape, shot on July 25, shows ACORN staffers explaining to the pair how they can hide the woman's professed work — prostitution — and get a loan that will help them establish a brothel.

James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as the pimp while visiting the ACORN office, accompanied by 20-year-old Hannah Giles, who posed as the prostitute. On a videotape provided to FOXNews.com, they are seen receiving guidance to establish the woman as the sole proprietor of a bogus company to mask the nature of her business.

"She's not going to put on (the loan application) that she's doing prostitution ... she doesn't have to," the ACORN staffer says. "You don't have to sit back and tell people what you do."

The ACORN staffer is heard suggesting that O'Keefe can purchase a house, and as the landlord, if he is ever questioned by authorities, he can say he was unaware of the illegal business going on inside.

The ACORN employee later suggests that O'Keefe, who said he had a budding political career, not linger at the house in case people "put the dots together" and leave him "smeared and tarnished" by his association with his prostitute girlfriend. She should keep her business "low key," the employee said.

An ACORN spokesman told FOX News the group would need to look at the full tape and transcript before commenting.

ACORN is a criminal enterprise and needs to be shut down. Problem is they're so closely linked with the President of the United States that nothing will happen. After all, they helped teach Obama how to organize communities. The left will just accuse Fox News of setting them up and will look the other way.