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-Lurid Crime Tales-
ACORN mulls suit against Fox News
2009-09-15
Facing intensifying scrutiny after the release of several disturbing hidden camera videos, the community organizing group, ACORN, is threatening to sue Fox News, the website Breitbart.com and the two conservative activists who produced the exposes.

ACORN is alleging that the filmmakers committed a felony by shooting the footage of ACORN employees in the act of providing advice on how to falsify tax forms and set-up a child prostitution business--to a man and a woman posing as a pimp and a prostitute.

A lawyer for ACORN said Monday that statutes in Maryland and the District of Columbia made the undercover filming illegal and that the same laws should prohibit the rebroadcast of the tapes by the Web site BigGovernment.com, where they were first posted last week, and on Fox News, which aired clips of the videos.
This should be fun. After all, the Census Bureau cut ties with them for the 2010 census, and the Senate just voted to cut their access to federal housing funds for the poor.
Posted by:Fred

#18  ACORN is probably deciding on whether they can get more money by keeping their mouths shut or to go for the banzai charge and get their heads lopped off after they "win", which isn't sure.

And I, for the life of me, still can't figure out why secret recordings like this are illegal, other than lawyers don't like it when their jobs are cut short.
Posted by: gorb   2009-09-15 23:51  

#17  Found this on YAHOO.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/pimp_hooker_catch_klyn_staff_Js4YPEcsCcxLZhAEehLhmL

I'll be in my bunk.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2009-09-15 21:43  

#16  Jaw-dropping. The new one has the Acorn employee admiting to murder, threatening Homocide, Admitting Tax Evasion from Pimping out Girls herself, Giving advice on Tax Evasion. This is the best one of the lot so far. I mean that in a bad way for ACORN. When this gets around, and it will, it will only re-enforce distrust of the MSM.

I can't wait to see where this goes in the coming weeks.
Posted by: Charles   2009-09-15 18:51  

#15  Well, Richard of O, to add insult to your injury, then Hannah Giles will have to be the "Nutcracker Sweet."

Peace,Love,Mayonnaise.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2009-09-15 18:48  

#14  Apparently ACORN wasn't even licensed to operate in Maryland.

And now ACORN San Bernardino
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-09-15 17:01  

#13  ACORN attacking Fox is the same thing as Saddam launching Scuds at Isreal in GWI. If you're in deep doo-doo, pick a fight with someone your co-conspirators friends all hate.
Posted by: Spusomble Speaking for Boskone8462   2009-09-15 15:15  

#12  I must confess, all of this talk about ACORN going the way of the Dodo has me as giddy as a school boy right now.
Posted by: eltoroverde   2009-09-15 13:16  

#11  Lawhawk is following the story. It seems the Brooklyn attorney general is preparing to file charges against ACORN. The Nevada attorney general is working up a case of fraudulent voter registration, as are several other states, if I recall correctly. We may be seeing the destruction of ACORN in our time.
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-09-15 11:28  

#10  the DA will have to really pack the jury to get a conviction

In Baltimore? Just the opposite.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2009-09-15 10:58  

#9  Is is ok to call James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles 'the Nutcrackers'? Then, would that would make O'Keefe's clothing a 'Nutcracker Suit'? Just asking.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-09-15 10:50  

#8  RICO? Makes sense. AND by making a federal case out of it, the kids could end up with some kind of whistleblower protection. But would Holder go for it (seems unlikely)?
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-09-15 10:20  

#7  Big Government has a piece up calling for a RICO investigation into Acorn.
Posted by: Grunter   2009-09-15 10:14  

#6  Supposedly even more explosive material to come today--stay tuned.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091   2009-09-15 09:08  

#5  The kids appear to have broken the law with the filming. If tried, the DA will have to really pack the jury to get a conviction though, and might well end up tossing jurors in jail for 'jury nullification' - which would open up a really exciting avenue of legal investigation. Breitbart and Fox are ok as far as I can tell, on any criminal grounds.
The civil suit might very well rope in Breitbart and Fox along with the kids though. As pointed out, discovery would be a b*tch.
This could all get extremely messy but I suspect orders from on high (The One) will cause everything to be dropped, with a few sacrifices to the undercarriage of the bus (and recent events in Chicago concerning aspirin overdoses would serve as a warning to follow orders - even if that death was actually accidental or suicide.)
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-09-15 08:57  

#4  Question for the 'Burg's unofficial legal team...haven't the courts previously ruled that the mere broadcast or reporting of information, regardless of how it was obtained, is protected by the First Amendment as long as the media outlet had nothing to do with the actual "crime"?

I remember hearing such an argument put forth when Sarah Palin's personal e-mails were posted on the 'net and some media outlets quoted them verbatim. The website owners and the media were never charged, just the putz who hacked her.

Wouldn't that apply here if there was no proof that Breitbart, Fox, etc., had nothing to do with bankrolling or providing material assistance to the two who did this sting?
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-09-15 06:52  

#3  Methinks there is a need to coin a phrase for cases such as that---how about Racist truth?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-09-15 04:40  

#2  But, but, but with the exception of hit "Fresh Air taxi", I thought the Dems loved the movie industry? Oh, wrong kinda movies. Ok. Ok. Ok.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-09-15 03:53  

#1  I think Fox is basically saying: Go ahead - make my day. Discovery can be a real bitch (and not the good kind either).
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-09-15 00:36  

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