Computers, Hard Drives Seized at ACORN's New Orleans Office

Friday, November 06, 2009
By Joshua Rhett Miller

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Investigators for the Louisiana Attorney General executed a search warrant Friday at ACORN's New Orleans office in connections to allegations of embezzlement and tax fraud.

Spokeswoman Tammi Arender Herring said the search warrant was executed shortly after 9 a.m. and resulted in the seizure of computers, hard drives and documents.

"It is quite a bit of stuff," Herring said, adding that ACORN officials were "extremely cooperative."

The search warrant follows the removal of computers and other items by two unidentified former ACORN employees when they left the organization, according to ACORN attorneys.

Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell said the original allegations of embezzlement were made last year by ACORN board members who were terminated after asking for an examination of the activist group's books.

ACORN fired its longtime director of its Louisiana chapter last month, citing a lack of accountability.

Pamela Marple, an attorney for ACORN, acknowledged that the community activist group has been cooperating with a variety of governmental agencies in the past two months.

"The AG's inquiry came in the form of a subpoena, which was issued in October and which requested virtually every document in the possession of ACORN and any related entity," Marple said in a statement issued to FoxNews.com. "ACORN was working diligently with the AG’s office to understand the request and respond in a realistic manner, particularly because the subpoena requested well over a million documents."

ACORN has been assured the computers will be returned shortly, Marple said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Liberal=Pursuit of Emotions. Conservative=Pursuit of Intellect.

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Edited: 11/06/2009 at 05:59 PM by Madhatterl7

You know what makes me laugh is that you seem to think that I give a rat's ass about all of this.

The only reason Ive said anything about ACORN is that the Republicans have gone out of their way to target them because they've gone out of their way to register people who would almost never vote Republican AND who the Republicans have tried their best to keep off the voting rolls because of that. ACORN has been a target for the party from almost the moment they began to turn their attention to registering non-Republican voters. The Republican party has gone out of its way to claim that ACORN committed massive voter fraud BUT no such thing ever happened. The worst that could be said is that these guys tried to gin the system to get more money (My mom, who was 60 at the time, did the footwork for the 2000 Census and I drove her around to do her job and I remember one of her friends, who was 15 years younger, did his census "work" from his house and ended up getting in trouble because one of his co-workers turned him in). All investigations into "voter fraud" have exonerated ACORN and have blamed the workers for trying to get paid more by truning in fraudulent voter registration forms.

Hell, I have to laugh at Louisiana because it was their governor, along with Minnesota's, who signed a bill that deprived ACORN from any state funding, which Jindal AND Pawlenty both knew their states NEVER provided to ACORN. Also, the Republican-written "De-fund ACORN Act" was so poorly written that it was on shaky Constitutional grounds AND would have targeted a number of Republican-leaning contractors, whose "crimes" fell into the same category as ACORN's.

Now, you can continue to prattle on about ACORN but I'm leaving this to you and the others because I really don't give a rat's ass and to say that they're not "MY BOYS" as you have LIED ABOUT - ONCE AGAIN.

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You can cry all you want, but if you took the time to either make or Load your Avatar. You care maybe a tinsy wincy little bit.



You know what makes me laugh is that you wrote a paragraph confirming that you do after you said that. HUH If I do not care then I would post " I do not care and end with that"
What makes me laugh is you do care but you have to show a brave big Boy face to our fellow board members. Let's be honest if you did not care you would not rock their symbol as your avatar, and then proceed to write a paragraph after the fact.

LOL That is what makes me laugh. SEE



You can act brave all you want and try to validate yourself to a computer screen. But we both know what is going on behind all those 1's and 0's

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Liberal=Pursuit of Emotions. Conservative=Pursuit of Intellect.

Never Claimed to be the worlds best speller.

"To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."

- GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1779 .

Edited: 11/06/2009 at 07:47 PM by Madhatterl7

Like dead people, seems the Dems are good at that one. Just look at Chicago.


Sorry but what a worker does while working for a company still falls on the company itself.



Common practice when edgy knows he is beaten.

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Can we just shut this tax bleeding piece of crap democrat company down and save the tax payers some money.........PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

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Sure would be nice. I guess I take Solace in the fact that it is actually a Democrat that is going it in Louisiana. Good for him.