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REPORT - Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as A Criminal Enterprise?

REPORT: Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as A Criminal Enterprise?

From Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Republicans

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Executive Summary

We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.
- President John Adams, Inaugural Address, 1797

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systemic fraud. Both structurally and operationally, ACORN hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate...

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