obviously, you did not read the link i posted to the California attorney general's office report that was released about a week ago.
i did not suggest that this report stated they were being charged with that, but Jerry brown's report is different...and the facts still stand
and no, charging employees, is not different, since ACORN was, as Brown reports states:
Brown's report found numerous faults with ACORN's activities in California, including:
- Failure to
"recruit, train and monitor its employees to ensure compliance" with state law.
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Likely violation of state civil laws designed to protect personal information when employees of the San Diego office disposed of 20,000 pages of records in a dumpster. These violations could result in private litigation if any of the victims were injured by disclosure.
- Four instances of
"possible voter registration fraud in San Diego in connection with the 2008 election."
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Failure to file a 2007 state tax return, an omission the Franchise Tax Board is pursuing.
- Sloppiness in its handling of charitable assets, although no misuse of those assets was found.
The California Attorney General will monitor investigations into ACORN's overall finances by the IRS and Louisiana Attorney General.
ACORN announced that it is closing its operations nationwide today. While a successor to ACORN in California called ACCE emphasizes that it is no longer part of ACORN, the Attorney General's report notes that
ACCE is "run by the same people, raising concerns about its ability to cure the defects in the organization." The report notes that the Attorney General will closely scrutinize ACCE's operations.
maybe you should read Brown's reports.
News & Alerts - California Dept. of Justice - Office of the Attorney General
as i said, just because the Hynes report exonerated them of *breaking the law* in the O'Keefe case, does not erase or exonerate them on the numerous other charges, deficiencies, faults and flaws which they are rife with.
ignorance, incompetence, sloppiness, and negligence are not excuses for their behavior in the past...
even such a supporter of Acorn as Rachel Maddow said as much when she said that while the vindication in the O'Keefe case was just and fair, "This is not meant to excuse what ACORN has done wrong in the past"