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Kaelke was fired by ACORN after the videos were released. In the San Diego office, edited video showed ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera telling O'Keefe he had "contacts" in "Tijuana" to help get underage girls across the border. [30] But, after the discussion with O'Keefe, Vera reported O'Keefe's fabricated plan for human smuggling to police.
During the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary, ACORN's national political action committee, ACORN Votes, endorsed Barack Obama. [31] Obama, with several other attorneys, had served as local counsel for ACORN more than a decade earlier in a 1995 voting rights lawsuit joined by the Justice Department and the League of Women Voters.
In 2009, Project Veritas associates published misleading [2] videos that depicted ACORN employees providing advice on concealing illegal activity, causing ACORN to shut down after losing funding; [3] the Attorney General of California cleared ACORN of wrongdoing in 2010, [2] and the associates paid a total of $150,000 in settlements to an ACORN ...
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The Enron scandal may be over 20 years old, but watching how the whole thing went down in the documentary “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” remains as fascinating as ever.
O'Keefe first gained national attention for his selectively edited video recordings of workers at Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) offices in 2009, his arrest and misdemeanor guilty plea in 2010 for entering the federal office of then-U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) under false pretenses, and the release of ...
Unlike in the US, ACORN groups in other countries have little organizational funding. [1] Under the ACORN model, most members are volunteers. Employed union organizers come from those working in local ACORN campaigns rather than from existing organizations and are paid a low wage. [1] The union works on local and national level campaigns. [1]
A Florida sheriff's deputy is seen on video opening fire on a Black man who was searched, handcuffed and placed in a patrol vehicle after the deputy mistook the sound of a falling acorn for a gunshot.