A public-interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption has filed three Freedom of Information Act lawsuits seeking documents related to the controversial community activist organization ACORN.
Judicial Watch wants the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Labor, and the parent company of AmeriCorps -- the Corporation for National and Community Finance -- to turn over documents related to their relationships with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Spokesman Chris Farrell says Judicial Watch is concerned that ACORN has basically served as an agent of the federal government in doling out housing funds. "They have basically been deputized or anointed to act for Housing and Urban Development when it comes to getting mortgages and properties for folks who go through the ACORN housing offices to purchase properties," he explains. In addition, Farrell says Judicial Watch wants to expand on the work done by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, the two investigative reporters whose explosive video exposés led to the Senate voting last month to deny ACORN access to housing funds, and the House of Representatives to deny ACORN all funds. "When it falls to O'Keefe and Giles to go out with their video and burn the major media for failing to investigate, there needs to be substantial follow-through," says the Judicial Watch spokesman. "There needs to be legal action [and] political action taken to counter what may be an enormous criminal conspiracy." Farrell says the severity of the problems concerning ACORN is so bad and so large that it really needs detailed scrutiny.
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