Brother of ACORN’s Chief Embezzles $1 Million of Organization’s $$
Posted on July 28, 2008
-By Warner Todd Huston
Obama’s home political supporters, the leftist “community” organization called ACORN, is guilty of hiding the theft of one million dollars of its funds by the brother of the organization’s founder, Wade Rathke. But, it is even worse than just a case of common embezzlement. It turns out that the ACORN board and brother Wade, leader of the political activist group, tried to cover up the theft so that his bro wouldn’t get caught up with the Feds and punished for his theft.
This from the July 9th edition of The New York Times:
Acorn chose to treat the embezzlement of nearly $1 million eight years ago as an internal matter and did not even notify its board. After Points of Light noticed financial irregularities in early June, it took less than a month for management to alert federal prosecutors, although group officials say they have no clear idea yet what the financial impact may be.
The brother, Dale Rathke, embezzled nearly $1 million from Acorn and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000, Acorn officials said, but a small group of executives decided to keep the information from almost all of the group’s board members and not to alert law enforcement.
These are the kind of ner-do-wells we are dealing with where it concerns ACORN. Cronyism, theft, embezzlement, cover ups…. and these are the people behind the many union efforts across the nation, as well as the Barack Obama campaign. It is also the group that Obama grew into political maturity with.
If these facts don’t show you what sort of nefarious characters we are dealing with… well, you aren’t interested in truth.
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Obama has to be one of the most corrupt politicans I have ever seen in my 40 years of voting. He sold himself as an agent of change trying to convince people that he was different. He has proven himself to be a liar and a hypocrite. His resume is so thin he has no business even running for president much less actuall being the Commander in Chief. We can block his attempt to steal the nomination but speaking out by writing to the super delegates and calling the DNC. Hillary Clinton is the most qualified person to be our nominee and if she is not then John McCain will be our next president.
I noticed that the recently passed housing bill has CDBG money in it. So how much does the ACORN non-profit get? During his presidency I believe even Bill Clinton stated that CDBG programs were not working. These block grants are one of the failed programs of the 1960s War on Poverty. President Bush, in the interest of getting legislation passed on the housing problem, compromised and said he would not veto the cDBG provision in the bill. So how much will Nancy Pelosi’s district receive in grants? We need to follow were this money goes and what is accomplished. It’s just pork for non-profits and allows the victim game to be played over and over and over.
The corruption that Obama is comfortable with is amazing. He is not jumping ahead in the polls because so many Americans do not trust him. And with good reason. Our best bet is to prevail on the superdelagates to nominate the candidate who can win — Hillary Clinton. If