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Home U.S. World Entertainment Sports Business Health Science Technology Politics Offbeat Environment Travel News Articles California AG: Numerous Faults With ACORN But No Crimes In Videos Email Facebook Digg Twitter Buzz Up! ShareThis April 2, 2010 12:17 p.m. EST Topics: politics, local authority, crime, law and justice, inquiry, United States Kris Alingod - AHN News Contributor Sacramento, CA, United States (AHN) - Employees of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now engaged in "inappropriate behavior" but committed no crimes when they were recorded giving advice to conservatives posing as a pimp and a prostitute, according to California Attorney General Jerry Brown. In a report released the same day ACORN shut all offices nationwide, Brown said the organization violated no criminal laws in California but may have violated civil laws. The attorney general's office obtained the full, unedited version of undercover videos taken by Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe in exchange for immunity from prosecution for the two conservatives. The original footage was "heavily edited to feature only the worst or most inappropriate statements of the various ACORN employees," including one who "speaks limited English" and another who "played along" with the scam using outrageous claims that she had killed her ex-husband for beating her. The attorney general's investigation also revealed that at least one employee, Juan Carlos Vera, contacted police immediately after his meeting with Giles and O'Keefe. Vera left a voicemail to the National City Police Department and later sent an email to Giles, at the behest of police, asking for more information about the alleged human smuggling operation the conservative had approached ACORN about. "Giles and O’Keefe lied to engender compassion, but then edited their statements from the released videos," the report found. "ACORN was not the criminal enterprise described by O’Keefe," it added. "ACORN is, however, disorganized and its operations were far from transparent, leaving it vulnerable to allegations of illegal activity and misuse of funds. Many of the ACORN employees lacked appropriate training and ACORN did not comply with its own internal policies and procedures." Brown said the organization may have violated civil laws protecting personal information when it disposed of 500 pages of confidential records about employees and individuals in a dumpster. The group also did not file its 2007 tax form, a violation that the Franchise Tax Board is pursuing. ACORN, the nation's largest advocacy group for low-income people, may have also committed four instances of voter registration fraud in 2008 in San Diego. The cases "have been examined by the Secretary of State’s Office and referred to the local district attorney," said the report. ACORN said last week it would close all its offices on Thursday, a decision conservatives dismissed as an April Fool's joke since the group's state offices have broken off only to form new organizations. The report from Brown raises the same concerns from critics albeit less scathingly. It says the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment "emphasizes that it is no longer part of ACORN" but "is run by the same people." Brown's report comes a month after the Brooklyn district attorney's office completed its own probe and similarly concluded that ACORN employees in the videos had not engaged in illegal activities. The group has been under fire since 2008, when its massive voter registration drive nationwide was plagued with allegations of fraud and its Las Vegas office was raided by authorities. The same year, Wade Rathke, the group's founder, stepped down as chief organizer after a whistleblower revealed that his brother had embezzled funds from the organization. Following the release of the videos last September, Congress moved to keep ACORN from continuing to receive federal funds. The IRS also stopped the organization's participation in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. ACORN had fought back with a lawsuit accusing Congress of approving a bill of attainder, or legislation that targets groups or individuals punitively without trial. It also enlisted former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger to conduct an internal review, which found that employees in the videos had not violated laws. Conservatives including Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) had called the report a whitewash. "The videos that have been released appear to have been edited, in some cases substantially, including the insertion of a substitute voiceover for significant portions of Mr. O'Keefe's and Ms.Giles's comments, which makes it difficult to determine the questions to which ACORN employees are responding," Harshbarger had said. Copyright © 2003 - 2010 AHN - All rights reserved.Redistribution, republication. syndication, rewriting or broadcast is prohibited without the prior written consent of AHN.License AHN news for your website, business, digital signage network or publication. 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