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== ACORN ==

== ACORN ==

O'Keefe, along with [[Hannah Giles]], posed as a pimp and a prostitute at many ACORN offices asking for housing arrangements to run their human smuggling business while secretly video taping everything. Unsurprisingly, the ACORN staff gave advice, despite being told by the pair that they planned to smuggle young girls from El Salvador. Even more shocking is that the pair was given advice on how to avoid paying taxes on the smuggled girls income. Video excerpts were released, which resulted in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] voting to end all federal funding of ACORN. The [[U.S. Senate]], the [[IRS]], and the [[Census Bureau]] also all voted to end funding for [[ACORN]].

O'Keefe, along with [[Hannah Giles]], posed as a pimp and a prostitute at many ACORN offices asking for housing arrangements to run their human smuggling business while secretly video taping everything. The ACORN staff gave advice, despite being told by the pair that they planned to smuggle young girls from El Salvador. Even more shocking is that the pair was given advice on how to avoid paying taxes on the smuggled girls' income. Video excerpts were released, which resulted in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] voting to end all federal funding of ACORN. The [[U.S. Senate]], the [[IRS]], and the [[Census Bureau]] also all voted to end funding for [[ACORN]].

In 2010 California Attorney General Jerry Brown (now the Democratic governor of California) and his Justice Department released a report on ACORN and O'Keefe's video. The department determined that ACORN "failed to recruit, train and monitor its employees to ensure compliance with California law," but found that there was not enough evidence to show "that the ACORN employees in California violated state criminal laws in connection with their conversations with O'Keefe and Giles." Additionally, the department stated that "the video releases were heavily edited to feature only the worst or most inappropriate statements of the various ACORN employees and to omit some of the most salient statements by O’Keefe and Giles."<ref>[http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/pdfs/n1888_acorn_report.pdf Report of the Attorney General on the Activities of Acorn in California]</ref>

In 2010 California Attorney General Jerry Brown (now the Democratic governor of California) and his Justice Department released a report on ACORN and O'Keefe's video. The department determined that ACORN "failed to recruit, train and monitor its employees to ensure compliance with California law," but found that there was not enough evidence to show "that the ACORN employees in California violated state criminal laws in connection with their conversations with O'Keefe and Giles." Additionally, the department stated that "the video releases were heavily edited to feature only the worst or most inappropriate statements of the various ACORN employees and to omit some of the most salient statements by O’Keefe and Giles."<ref>[http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/press/pdfs/n1888_acorn_report.pdf Report of the Attorney General on the Activities of Acorn in California]</ref>

==NPR==

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