Acorn Videotaped Telling a Pimp and Prostitute How to Lie To IRS

[bonnie]

http://www.foxnews.com/story

ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling 'Pimp,' 'Prostitute' How to Lie to IRS

Thursday, September 10, 2009

An employee at ACORN's Baltimore office advises a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute during a videotaped meeting in July.

Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents.

The videotape was made public Thursday on BigGovernment.com, a political blog launched by Andrew Breitbart as a companion site to his BigHollywood.breitbart.com blog.

In the videotape, made on July 24, James O'Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as a pimp with a 20-year-old woman named "Kenya" who posed as a prostitute while visiting ACORN's office in Baltimore. The couple told ACORN staffers they wanted to secure housing where the woman could continue to maintain a prostitution business.

ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — bills itself as the nation's largest community of low- and moderate-income families "working together for social justice and stronger communities," according to its Web site. The organization has been accused by Republicans and conservative activists with fraud in voter registration drives around the country and has been under fire since last year for its support of President Obama and for its planned participation in next year's census.

A spokesman for ACORN, Scott Levenson, when asked to comment on the videotape, said: "The portrayal is false and defamatory and an attempt at gotcha journalism. This film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed. ACORN wants to see the full video before commenting further."

On the videotape, "Kenya" can be seen telling an ACORN staffer that she earns roughly $8,000 a month. The ACORN employee then suggests to "Kenya" that ACORN could submit a tax return for 2008 showing that she made $9,600 for the entire year — instead of $96,000 — and that ACORN would charge "Kenya" $50 instead of the usual $150 fee for preparing her taxes.

ACORN offers tax preparation and benefits application services free of charge during tax season; it charges nominal fees during non-tax season.

The ACORN staffer can also be seen suggesting that the prostitute list her occupation as a freelance "performing artist."

"It's not dancing, trust me," the "pimp" says.

"But dancing is considered an art," the ACORN staffer replies. "[Exotic dancers] usually go under performing artists, or yeah, they usually go under performing arts, which will be what you are — a performing artist."

The "pimp" later says that he and "Kenya" plan to bring up to 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador to work as prostitutes. Although an ACORN staffer points out their plans are illegal, she also suggests that the girls can be claimed as dependents.

"What if they are going to be making money because they are performing tricks too?" the pimp says.

"If they making money and they are underage, then you shouldn't be letting anybody know anyway," the ACORN staffer says, and laughs. "It's illegal. So I am not hearing this, I am not hearing this. You talk too much. Don't give up no information you're not asked."

The "pimp" then asks ACORN staffers to "promise" not to discriminate against his sex worker because of "who she is and what she does," according to the audiotape.

"If we don't have the information, then how are we going to discriminate?" the ACORN staffer replies. "You see what I am saying?"

If the girls are under age 16, the ACORN staffer says on the tape, then they are not legally allowed to work in the state, regardless of what they do.

"So it's like they don't even exist?" "Kenya" asks.

"Exactly," the ACORN staffer replies. "It's like they don't even exist."

The staffer goes on to suggest that as many as three of the underage girls can be listed as dependents at the home, but a "flag" will be raised if as many as 13 are listed.

"You are gonna use three of them," the staffer says. "They are gonna be under 16, so you is eligible to get child tax credit and additional child tax credit."

The ACORN workers also appear to be promoting the group's services to the "pimp" and "Kenya."

A second ACORN employee can be heard on the audiotape suggesting that the couple join the organization for an annual cost of $120 prior to attending one of its first-time homebuyer seminars, which are underwritten with taxpayer funds.

Later, when the "pimp" asks what would happen if the organization is somehow connected to the scheme, the ACORN staffer replies, "First of all, it's not gonna damage us because we not gonna know. And with your girls, you tell them, 'Be careful.' Train them to keep their mouth shut."

"These girls are like 14, how can we trust them?" the pimp asks.

"Just be very, very careful," the ACORN staffer says. "Whatever you do, always keep your eyes in the back of your head."

Reached by FOX News, O'Keefe said he was "shocked" at the level of assistance provided by ACORN staffers.

"I was prepared for them to call the police, throw me out of the office and be hostile," he said. "Without hesitation, they helped me every way they could with evading taxes and setting me up with a brothel, with getting around federal tax laws — doing everything they could to help us. I was completely shocked."

House Republicans issued a report in July accusing ACORN of engaging in a scheme to use taxpayer money to support a partisan political agenda. California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for a criminal investigation into the group, which dismissed the report as a "partisan attack job."

[Woody]

I wonder if Obama is still going to put his faith in this crooked organization?

[bonnie]

I wonder if Obama is still going to put his faith in this crooked organization?

Be a little difficult to say otherwise when they have received his backing. They are getting a good chunk with the stimulus money

[Guest]

They also specialize in election fraud, and played a big part in BO being elected.

[Woody]

Yes Richard. BO and Acorn go hand in hand.

[bonnie]

HEY ALL

WHAT is that old saying "birds of a feather flock together"

dgrimm60

How soon before the charge of racism and unfair begins. Second tape with instruction on running prostitution business by helpful acorn workers.

On Why I Don’t Return Phone Calls from an Intrepid CNN Producer

by James O'Keefe

So far CNN has only reported on the breaking story on blatant ACORN CORRUPTION from angles that attempt to extricate the government funded “community organizing” enterprise from the extreme crime we caught on videotape.

First CNN pushed the false ACORN line that “[t]his film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed.”

To set that record straight please check the Washington D.C. tape we dropped today at BigGovernment.com, which is also being aired on your cable news competitor with curiously higher ratings.

Now that ACORN lied to you, Jonathan Klein, what are you going to do?

Here’s what I have noticed from your coverage: You brought in the damage control crowd to FRAME the story. Before even airing our damning Baltimore video. You know your audience would turn on ACORN if you showed them the evidence. So instead you put your competitors in journalism in the crosshairs instead of airing a blockbuster report making massive waves elsewhere.

You even trotted out shameless Clinton era apologist Joe Conason to challenge the ETHICS of our expose. Unreal.

What about the ethics of those at ACORN caught on tape trying to help create a brothel featuring illegal immigrant age range 13-15 from El Salvador? (more…)

[bonnie]

What a practical use for stimulus money and tax payer dollar.

Good old american ingenuity should be rewarded.

Wonder if we will hear from Obama soon on this?

Joe the Plumber had a walk in the park compared what will be done to these two gutsy young people. I hope they are very savvy in protecting themselves.

They very likely could have a very big target on their back. Behavior this blatant and something this filthy is not the first time. I hope these young people are very careful

[Dr. Shane]

Apparently today it was decided that ACORN will not be assisting in the census. I think this is a killer for ACORN. I think within a few years or less the organization will disband. Of course, the same people will start another similar organization.

[Dr. Shane]

I think this is a major, major scandal. A pimp and his prostitute go in to get a house and ACORN tell them how to evade taxes. They say they are going to have underage prostitutes and ACORN's idea is to use the minors as dependents to evade more taxes. Not only were they talking about prostitution but human trafficking. Most underage girls brought into the US for prostitution are bought or kidnapped and brought here against their will. This has to be a death nail for this organization.

[bonnie]

I think this is a major, major scandal. A pimp and his prostitute go in to get a house and ACORN tell them how to evade taxes. They say they are going to have underage prostitutes and ACORN's idea is to use the minors as dependents to evade more taxes. Not only were they talking about prostitution but human trafficking. Most underage girls brought into the US for prostitution are bought or kidnapped and brought here against their will. This has to be a death nail for this organization.

One can hope but I wouldn't count on it. Clinton's sexual escapades followed by his lies should have signaled his end.

It didn't as we well know

[Dr. Shane]

Kidnapping, human trafficking and sexual slavery is quite a bit more serious than Clinton's perjury, sexual harassment, adultery and misuse of the secret service.

[bonnie]

Kidnapping, human trafficking and sexual slavery is quite a bit more serious than Clinton's perjury, sexual harassment, adultery and misuse of the secret service.

There is no denying which is the most serious. I am not as confident as you are. After a couple of days will think much of this.Time after time Acorn has been involved in one shady election registration after another and other not so clean and shiny shenanigans

Time will tell

[Dr. Shane]

Well, like I said, if ACORN does disband, the same shady characters will start a similar organization.

[bonnie]

Well, like I said, if ACORN does disband, the same shady characters will start a similar organization.

Are you seeing much in the way of attention placed on this by NBC,ABC,orMNSBC.

I am not. This may very well turn out the two investigating and reporting will in some way be more dispicable than those willing to set up a house of prostitution with children.

It is only sex after all.

Remember Linda Tripp. Doesn't matter why she felt the need to record,she was the dispicable gossip . Not Clinton for his sexual escapades with a young woman his daughter's age.

There was even a female reporter or two that commented they would like to trade places with Monica.

[Dr. Shane]

Some can try to spin it as being "only sex" but every year many young girls in Latin America are kidnapped and forced into sexual slavery. It has a lot more to do with money than sex. Imagine having a child kidnapped and never knowing whatever became of them and then finding out that ACORN was helping keep such abducted kids in a brothel. Certainly this story is not getting enough coverage.

[Woody]

Quote:

Remember Linda Tripp. Doesn't matter why she felt the need to record,she was the dispicable gossip . Not Clinton for his sexual escapades with a young woman his daughter's age.

Good Point about Linda Tripp. Haven't seen that name in awhile.