07-15-2011, 10:19 PM
Jesus Christ:
Remember that story from a few days ago, the one about the Obama administration giving ACORN a $79,819 grant in March despite a federal law that prohibits the government from giving money to ACORN?
It turns out that sum is a lowball figure.
I discovered Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave ACORN another $461,086 in January.* The funds were earmarked for ACORN Housing Corp. in January under HUD's Self-help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP), according to the government website USAspending.gov.
In order words, the Obama administration gave fraud-ridden ACORN nearly a half million dollars to be used on housing development.
The administration isn't even trying to conceal the fact that it gave this money to ACORN. USAspending.gov identifies the recipient as "ACORN Housing Corporation Inc." even though that nonprofit entity filed papers last year legally changing its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA).
The website also provides the address of record for ACORN Housing as 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. That's the renovated funeral home that until recently served as headquarters for ACORN's 370-plus shady affiliates.
This means the Obama administration has given at least $540,905 in taxpayer money to ACORN this calendar year alone.
Then...
After this article was published, HUD spokesman Jereon M. Brown contacted the writer by email. Brown acknowledged the government's USAspending.gov database reported that the $461,086 HUD grant was made to ACORN Housing, but said the award was actually rescinded. "This amount was de-obligated and recovered," he said.
BUT, ACORN's Fical year July 2009 through June 2010 says it got over 6 million in federal funding. WTF?
Don't know if the link will work: http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/20...1d99-9.pdf
Remember that story from a few days ago, the one about the Obama administration giving ACORN a $79,819 grant in March despite a federal law that prohibits the government from giving money to ACORN?
It turns out that sum is a lowball figure.
I discovered Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) gave ACORN another $461,086 in January.* The funds were earmarked for ACORN Housing Corp. in January under HUD's Self-help Homeownership Opportunity Program (SHOP), according to the government website USAspending.gov.
In order words, the Obama administration gave fraud-ridden ACORN nearly a half million dollars to be used on housing development.
The administration isn't even trying to conceal the fact that it gave this money to ACORN. USAspending.gov identifies the recipient as "ACORN Housing Corporation Inc." even though that nonprofit entity filed papers last year legally changing its name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA).
The website also provides the address of record for ACORN Housing as 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana. That's the renovated funeral home that until recently served as headquarters for ACORN's 370-plus shady affiliates.
This means the Obama administration has given at least $540,905 in taxpayer money to ACORN this calendar year alone.
Then...
After this article was published, HUD spokesman Jereon M. Brown contacted the writer by email. Brown acknowledged the government's USAspending.gov database reported that the $461,086 HUD grant was made to ACORN Housing, but said the award was actually rescinded. "This amount was de-obligated and recovered," he said.
BUT, ACORN's Fical year July 2009 through June 2010 says it got over 6 million in federal funding. WTF?
Don't know if the link will work: http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/20...1d99-9.pdf