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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.
ACORN mostly registered people from Latino and African American communities. [81] The videos were recorded during the summer of 2009 [82] and appeared to show low-level ACORN employees in six cities advising Giles and O'Keefe on how to avoid detection by authorities of tax evasion, human smuggling and child prostitution. [83]
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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.
On October 26, 2016, O'Keefe posted a fourth video on his Project Veritas Action YouTube channel. The video alleged that liberal groups supporting Hillary Clinton were illegally taking foreign money. The targeted group, Americans United for Change foundation, is a 501(c)4 organization and is allowed to legally accept foreign contributions ...
Former President Barack Obama's family was the subject of a recent article stating a man had filed a lawsuit claiming he was the biological father of Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia.
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]