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Obama Covers Up $800,000 To ACORN Spinoff

October 10th, 2008 • Richard Cochrane
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Obama Calls False Report A Mistake - Has Long History With Acorn

A Pittsburgh newspaper investigation exposed U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's shenanigans during his presidential primary campaign paying more than $800,000 to CIS an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) covering up get out the vote efforts as other services a falsely reporting them in federal reports.

The original Federal Election Commission Report by the Obama campaign listed the following:

· $310,441.20 — Feb. 25, staging, sound, lighting

· $160,689.40 — Feb. 27, staging, sound, lighting

· $98,451.20 — Feb. 29, travel/lodging

· $74,578.01– March 13, staging, sound, lighting

· $18,417.00 — March 28, polling

· $18,633.60 — April 29, staging, sound, lighting

· $63,000.00 — April 8, advance work

· $105.84 — May 2, license fees

· $105.84 — May 2, license fees

· $75,000.00 — May 17, advance work

· $13,176.20 — May 17, per diem

It appears none of these services were in fact provided. Rather the ACORD offshoot was involved in what the Obama campaign described as “field work.”

Citizens Services Inc. is headquartered at the same address as ACORN's national headquarters in New Orleans . Citizens Services was established in December 2004 to "assist persons and organizations who advance the interests of low- and moderate-income people," according to paperwork filed in Louisiana .

Part of Obama’s community organizing in Chicago involved his working as ab organizer for Project Vote, an ACORN offshoot, and Obama represented ACORN in legal actions.

Accusations of voter registration and outright vote fraud have followed ACORN's canvassing projects in about a dozen states.

ACORN is at the center of a scandal involving a $1 million embezzlement by Dale Rathke, brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke. ACORN discovered the embezzlement in 2000 but did not alert law enforcement officials. Several ACORN employees have pled guilty to various fraud and other charges.

An Obama spokesman said Federal Election Commission reports would be amended to show Citizens Services Inc. — a subsidiary of ACORN — worked in "get-out-the-vote" projects, instead of activities such as polling, advance work and staging major events as stated in FEC finance reports filed during the primary.

ACORN activities is increasingly the focus of allegation and investigation into fraudulent voter registration efforts now in at leas 11 states.

POSTSCRIPT: The Huffington Post has been widely outed and criticized on the hypocrosphere and the blogosphere for covering up the involvement of ACORN with the affiliates maybe more directly and nominally involved, emphasizing the cover up of massive fraudulent activity supported by the Obama campaign. Reports are the campaign is going to "correct" accidental mistakes in it's disclosure of the purpose of the money given to ACORN and it's affiliates for all kinds of techincal work. Dissembling converting to the facts perhaps, at best.

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