On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN's activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot.
Although ACORN has denied any wrongdoing, some of the employees involved were terminated, and ACORN has publicly stated that they would fully cooperate with any investigations that followed.
Interestingly, the local head ACORN organizer in California, David Lagstein was caught on tape earlier this month speaking to an East County Democratic Club.
Mr. Lagstein stated: "...the attorney general is a political animal, but certainly every bit of the communication we have had with them has suggested that the fault will be found with the people that did the video and not the people with ACORN."
Continuing, Mr. Lagstein stated: "...we are fully cooperating, some of the investigators visited our office this morning and I think they really understand what's going on."
Shockingly, we now learn that the ACORN office in National City (San Diego County) engaged in a massive document dump on the evening of October 9th, containing thousands upon thousands of sensitive documents, just days prior to the Attorney General's visit.
BigGovernment.com has learned that not only did this document dump occur, but the documents in question were irresponsibly and brazenly dumped in a public dumpster, without considering laws and regulations as to how sensitive information should be treated.
I am a local licensed private investigator. I took it upon myself to keep an eye on what the local ACORN office was up to, in light of the release of the undercover videos. I retrieved these documents from the public dumpster.
Documents shared with BigGovernment.com include information exposing not only the inner workings of ACORN in California, but also personal, sensitive information belonging to employees, members and clients of ACORN. ACORN and its few remaining defenders insist that the "good" ACORN provides outweighs the transgressions exposed in the recent undercover video sting. But, ACORN's massive dumping of these documents and the cavalier manner in which it betrayed the trust of its supporters betrays that talking point.
#1 Barbara! I'd like to order one wheelbarrow full of buttered popcorn!
Posted by gorb 2009-11-24 01:08||
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#2 Fox News has more on this. Those documents in the dumpster apparently had Social Security numbers, drivers license number, credit card numbers, etc. I heard on TV last night that ACORN wants it all back so they can shred it. Heh, heh, heh.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-11-24 12:44||
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#3 Too late. Once you put it into a dumpster, anyone can take it. The police don't need a warrant to go through your trash.
#5 And there is a sequel in Oklahoma also, same song, second verse.....
Posted by USN, Ret. 2009-11-24 21:51||
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#6 Pretty unimaginative and lazy co-ops. They should have paid a couple of homeless guys to cook the stuff in a 55 gallon barrel as a win-win, when their bosses told them make the documents disappear. So much for their future as Whitehouse staffers.
Posted by Super Hose 2009-11-24 23:17||
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On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN's activities in California, resulting from undercover videos showing employees seemingly offering to assist the undercover film makers with human smuggling, child prostitution and even tax advice to boot.