the Audit Acorn Bought but Won't Tell You and How Affiliations with Judith Kay and Proskaur Rose Ties in.

"On September 16, 2009, with much fanfare, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis announced that ACORN was hiring an independent auditor to review its internal processes. Yesterday, the former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger produced a report finding ACORN, as a corporation, engaged in administrative negligence.

This of course has not stopped ACORN from declaring victory and calling the report a vindication. Is anyone surprised that a report paid for by ACORN exonerates them? The fact that this review didn’t even include an audit of ACORN’s financial statements speaks volumes. Luckily for taxpayers, there are numerous federal and state investigations currently underway that should ultimately produce a legitimate finding regarding ACORN’s illegal activities.

The reality is ACORN has masqueraded as charitable organization in order to fund and advance a partisan political agenda. There is no mechanism in place to follow where the use of taxpayer and charitable dollars end and where funds used to pay for their political activities begin.

Despite these findings of obvious negligence on ACORN’s behalf, the Proskauer Rose report was not an audit. In fact, among the “7,000 pages” (19) Mr. Scott Harshbarger reviewed, none of those pages included....

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http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/08/acorn-whitewash-what-acorn-wont-tell-you-about-its-paid-for-audit/

Iviewit Comments from Site:

"In fact, former President of the New York State Bar Association Steven C. Krane of Porksour was found handling complaints at the First Department against his law firm, partners and himself while an officer of the First Department and then ordered for investigation for the Appearance of Impropriety and Conflict of Interest.__Where there is Proskauer, there is crime, I would not trust this report at all and in fact would investigate Proskauer's involvement in ACORN. Did Obama stop by Proskauer on his way to the White House "

"In fact, former President of the New York State Bar Association Steven C. Krane of Porksour was found handling complaints at the First Department against his law firm, partners and himself while an officer of the First Department and then ordered for investigation for the Appearance of Impropriety and Conflict of Interest.__Where there is Proskauer, there is crime, I would not trust this report at all and in fact would investigate Proskauer's involvement in ACORN. Did Obama stop by Proskauer on his way to the White House"

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There is Seemingly No One that can Hold Proskaur Rose Accountable for what they do. Proskaur Rose has Connections upon Connections and Proskaur Rose is Above the Law. Add Steven Krane, Judith Kay, and Scott Harshbarger of Proskaur Rose and you have a Seriously above the Law .. unstoppable Legal Team that Can do No Wrong and Can Easily protect anyone who does.

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."


Source of Post
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/acorn_model_whitewash_mg5LzZXl2sp2asY5CFMqpK

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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.
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