ACORN's model whitewash - led by former Chief Judge Judith Kaye

Looks like things are starting to look up for those scoundrels, er, "community organizers," at ACORN.

At least, their friends are starting to run interference for them again.

A congressional research arm said Tuesday that the left-wing pressure group -- which Congress recently voted to cut off from federal funds after a sting operation caught employees dispensing housing-fraud advice to a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute -- violated no federal regulations.


This follows a Brooklyn federal judge's ruling this month that Congress' action was itself unconstitutional -- and an "internal review" (read: whitewash) by former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger that found "no evidence" of illegal action on ACORN's part.


Indeed, Scott Harshbarger of Proskauer Rose blamed the whole mess on lax standards introduced by the group's disgraced former leader, Wade Rathke, explaining that the scandal "erupted just as ACORN's reform leadership was about to complete an ambitious and professionally directed organizational and cultural transformation."
How convenient.

But recall that Rathke, ACORN's founder, resigned last year after it was revealed that he'd helped cover up embezzlement of group funds by his brother.

The likelier explanation: ACORN was a suspect endeavor from the start -- and still is.
Certainly, it's beyond absurd to claim that such a group has a constitutional right to pick taxpayers' pockets.

But we're more interested in what all this means for ACORN's bastard child in New York, the equally sketchy Working Families Party.

The WFP is being probed by the Staten Island DA and the Manhattan US attorney for allegedly circumventing campaign-finance law by undercharging candidates for its services.
And, sure enough, it's commissioned its own internal "review" -- this one led by former Chief Judge Judith Kaye.


No doubt, she's spending her holiday taking notes on Harshbarger's technique.


But, ironically enough, one section of Harshbarger's report may have direct bearing on the WFP.
To introduce some quality control into ACORN's operations, he suggests dissolving the dozens of semi-autonomous front groups that now do much of the organization's heavy lifting.

Any chance that might include the WFP itself -- which was founded by ACORN and Big Labor, and which still shares senior leadership with its parent group?

Alas, given the party's recent electoral successes, that seems unlikely.
But hey, we can hope.

'Tis the season for miracles, after all."


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Is this the Same Scott Harshbarger that is Senior Counsel at Proskauer Rose? Doesn't Judith Kay and Proskauer Connections, Favors, Affiliations and Look the Other Ways .. Go Way Back...

These folks are all in bed together and Circling the Wagons, the Truth is Irrelevant, Corruption and Connection is all that Matters and YOU Lose.

Scott Harshbarger of Proskauer Rose: Either You Stand with the Victim or you Stand with the Criminal. Judith Kaye as a Supreme Court Judge protected Proskauer Rose in a Trillion Dollar Paten Heist Case Right? And he husband Was a Partner there right? Well there is no justice, no Truth - there is only Opinion and Favors Owed.
Harshbarger Scott