California probe clears ACORN of criminal activity
Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown cites the advocacy group's objectionable behavior but says it does not warrant legal action by authorities.
California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown said in a report Thursday that the community organizing group ACORN engaged in "highly inappropriate behavior" in the state but violated no criminal law.
California Attorney General (and governor hopeful) Jerry Brown just finished an investigation where he whitewashed the criminal activity of A.C.O.R.N.
The report said ACORN probably violated state civil laws by disposing of thousands of pages containing confidential information about employees, members and other individuals in a trash bin, failing to file a 2007 state tax return and engaging in four instances of possible voter registration fraud in San Diego.
ACORN also was unable to document how it used charitable funds raised for the victims of Southern California wildfires, the report said. But the probe "determined that ACORN spent more than it likely raised for the fire victims, and therefore further action into this issue is not a wise use of the state's resources," the report said.
Evidently, when a private party tries to gather evidence of organized criminal activity, this is a more serious crime deserving more serious punishment than defrauding the federal and state government and disobeying multiple laws. Specially when the organization you are going after is funded by the federal government. Since the federal government is above the law, any organization funded by the federal government automatically gets the same benefits. Therefore anybody trying to catch government employees (or government funded organizations) breaking the law are committing a serious crime and the whistle blowers will face the full might of the federal government.
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