EMBEZZLEMENT: ACORN Founder Wade Rathke Embezzled $5 Million from Louisiana ACORN, Subpoena Issued
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on October 5, 2009
Pimp parody of Wade Rathke, co-founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 100... ACORN layoffs imminent, embezzlement discovered
Warning: DON’T STOP TO SLEEP… you could miss another breaking story that exposes yet MORE of ACORN’s corruption and lawlessness. It barely stops for a day anymore.
Since the fringe media is still grappling with how to even mention disgraced radical “green jobs” czar Van Jones and still aren’t sure what is REAL news on reporting ACORN (poor, lost media souls), suffice it to say you need to watch FOX News and read conservative blogs to keep up with this exploding cauldron of toxic corruption. Blow off CBS, MSNBC, ABC, and CNN for any news on ACORN… mark my words, soon, the connection between Obama and this criminal organization will be revealed. But it won’t be by any overpaid, ostrich-head-in-the-sand fringe media reporters.
In the meantime, the daily updates of ACORN’s corruption is no longer limited to the East or West Coasts or to splashy Las Vegas. It’s no longer just a “few bad apples” in the lowly ranks of the entry level ex-convicts (some of whom are criminal experts in identity theft) who are willy-nilly engaging in voter fraud registration by “signing up” members of the Dallas Cowboys team in Nevada, Mickey Mouse, and dead people for Democrat voting in elections.
No. Now corruption has been ripped wide open, exposing in breaking news today that in Louisiana, the organization’s head cheese, Wade Rathke, has been EMBEZZLING from the organization.
In the heart of the land of Hurricane Katrina victims.
To the outrageous tune of FIVE MILLION DOLLARS. If you’re gonna steal from poor people, steal big, right, Wade?
None of those poor people in New Orleans really needed any of that money, I’m guessing… they’re all doing peachy keen, the lap of luxury.
Rathke needed the $5 million MUCH more… socialist millionaire slime dog.
From Big Government: Breaking: Louisiana Attorney General: Rathke Embezzled $5 Million From ACORN:
In internal review by the board of directors of the community organization ACORN determined that the amount allegedly embezzled from the community organization was $5 million, well more than the previously reported amount of nearly $1 million, according to a new subpoena in an investigation by Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell.
The subpoena, released this afternoon, says, “It is still unclear if some of the monies embezzled are from state, federal or private funds.”
Caldwell issued subpoenas in August seeking documents related to Acorn International then-President Wade Rathke and his brother Dale Rathke, who kept the group’s books. Those subpoenas were focused on possible Acorn violations of state employee tax law, obstructing justice and violating the Employee Retirement Security Act.
According to the new subpoena issued by the Louisiana Attorney General, it seems ACORN leadership was aware of the full extent of the embezzlement. That they have covered up the true figure cast doubt on their ability to truly reform the organization. In other words, they will only admit to what they get caught at.
H/t to Mark Epstein for this photo:
ACORN HQ building in New Orleans is up for sale
UPDATE, OCTOBER 8, 2009: From Matthew Vadum, tireless journalist… Big Government: Breaking: Cross-Dressing Escort Registered by ACORN Imprisoned for Voter Fraud ACORN Probe, Continues in Ohio
UPDATE, OCTOBER 21, 2009:
Breaking from Big Government’s O’Keefe: **BREAKING** ACORN Video: Prostitution Scandal in Philadelphia, PA Part 1…
Newly Breaking: Repercussions from ACORN exposé: Matthew Vadum, Big Government: PHILLY VIDEO IS MORE PROOF: Liberal Smear Merchants ‘Media Matters for America’ Will Slime Anyone Who Takes on ACORN
Other ACORN reading:
Michelle Malkin: The $5 million ACORN embezzlement figure is not new — and the NYT knows it
Anita MonCrief, Big Government: From the Archives II: ACORN Corruption Runs Deep
Michael Volpe, Big Government: The Future of Wade Rathke and ACORN, Part II: Tea Parties and Protests
Matthew Vadum, Big Government: ACORN Plans Massive Layoffs
Gateway Pundit: Figures. ACORN Was Behind Franken’s Stolen Senate Seat and Zombie Robbery… 2,812 Dead Voters May Give MN Senate Seat to Franken
Kyle Olson, Big Government: Lest We Forget: SEIU, ACORN Behind Ongoing Push For Socialized Medicine
Citizen Wells: ACORN, Nevada corruption, Harry reid blocks investigation, Las Vegas Review Journal, September 25, 2009, Clark County, Rampant fraud, ACORN corruption
Kevin Kane, Big Government: ACORN’s Tax Problems
Goodtimepolitics: ACORN Plot Recovered From Computers Abandoned By ACORN workers
VotingFemale Speaks!: SEIU has “Jumped The Shark”
Don Loos, Big Government: Investigate Chicago SEIU 880′s ACORN-Rathke Connection and Is SEIU’s Purple Brand Fading to Pink?
Riehl World View: Is Franken ACORN’s Man In The Senate?
Snow Report Blog: AG: ACORN Embezzlement Totaled $5M, Not $1M – FOXNews
Matthew Vadum, American Spectator: SEIU Divorces ACORN?
Frugal Café Blog Zone: ACORN in Las Vegas: Voter Registration Fraud Charges, “Blackjack” Bonus Plan (video) and Yet Another ACORN Problem: Cease and Desist Orders in Pennsylvania… Order Dated 2007 and Why Did FEMA Award $1 Million ‘Fire Prevention’ Grant to ACORN? and ACORN’s Brazen $7 Million Lawsuit Against Filmmakers O’Keefe, Giles, & Breitbart Has Little Support (video) and ACORN: “We’ll Help You Get Away with Stuff” — Jay Leno, Bill O’Reilly, & Dennis Miller Weigh In (video) and ‘Big Government’s’ Breitbart Lets Major TV News Media Have It for Lying, Ignoring, or Distorting ACORN Child Hooker-Tax Fraud Scandal (video)
Michael McCray, Big Government: Is ACORN DOA?: Blame The Board!
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Big Government: FEMA Grant to ACORN is Offensive
Ztower: Vitter’s quick jump on ACORN reminds the CREW that the Senator also has some old laundry to wash.
Kyle Olson, Big Government: ACORN Paycheck Aside, Patrick Gaspard is a Radical
Kyle Olson, Big Government: ACORN ‘Advisory’ Committee Has Huge Stake in Success of Group
Bret Jacobson, Big Government: SEIU’s Texas Roadshow: Will They ‘Kill’ Your Company?
Tom Steward, Big Government: An Early ACORN Whistleblower: Karen Inman
Big Government: ACORN’s Working Family of Democratic Socialists
Matthew Vadum, Big Government: Is ACORN’s Bertha Lewis Even Capable Of Telling The Truth?
Hot Air: Breitbart: I thought Bertha Lewis was grateful that we exposed ACORN’s corruption and War: ACORN sues Breitbart, O’Keefe, and Giles and Dig deep: Hannah Giles defense fund launches and Media Matters dishonest editing in support of their “smear” argument exposed
Wall Street Journal: Bank Pulls Back From Acorn Work
US News & World Report: ACORN Story Shows How Internet Reporting Is Beating the New York Times
Publius, Big Government: ACORN Tactics Revealed in Discovered Documents
Nice Deb: Bill O’Reilly To MN Gov. Pawlenty: Take Another Look At ACORN’s 43,000 Votes For Al Franken
Kristina Rasmussen, Big Government: Illinois Grant to ACORN Housing Under Review
Wellsy’s World: Disgrace: ACORN sues undercover journalists
Big Hollywood: ACORN Video Investigation
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