http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/10/acorn.prostitution/index.html

(CNN) -- Two employees at the Baltimore, Maryland, branch of the liberal community organizing group ACORN were caught on tape allegedly offering advice to a pair posing as a pimp and prostitute on setting up a prostitution ring and evading the IRS.
The footage, which appears to have been edited in places, was recorded and posted online Thursday.

The footage, which appears to have been edited in places, was recorded and posted online Thursday.

The video footage -- which has been edited and goes to black in some areas -- was recorded and posted online Thursday by James O'Keefe, a conservative activist. He was joined on the video by another conservative, Hannah Giles, who posed as the prostitute in the filmmakers' undercover sting.

The video shows the pair approaching two women working at the ACORN Baltimore office and asking them for advice on how to set up a prostitution ring involving more than a dozen underage girls from El Salvador.

One of the ACORN workers suggests that Giles refer to herself as a "performing artist" on tax forms and declare some of the girls as dependents to receive child tax credits.

"Stop saying prostitution," the woman, identified by the filmmaker as an ACORN tax expert, tells Giles. The other woman tells them, "You want to keep them clean ... make sure they go to school." Video Watch tape of alleged advice on prostitution »

Both women appear enthusiastic to help.

Nice.

Yeah I'm sure this is sanctioned by the upper echelon of ACORN.

I wouldn't think so either.

ACORN is a big organization. Like all such, it surely has a quantity of people who are criminal in nature. Whether any of those people are policy makers remains to be seen.

I see the DC office of ACORN had a similar response to the sting in Baltimore, but three or four other offices turned the film maker away.

If the corruption rate is two out of six or seven offices, I think ACORN has a problem.

Well honestly its about time someone is willing to help out prostitution rings. In an economy like this their business is suffering without a bailout; we bail out wall street, we bail out main street, but what about the alley behind main street?

Well honestly its about time someone is willing to help out prostitution rings. In an economy like this their business is suffering without a bailout; we bail out wall street, we bail out main street, but what about the alley behind main street?

You are incorrect, no one bailed out main street.

You are incorrect, no one bailed out main street.

http://www.deldot.gov/public.ejs?command=PublicNewsDisplay&id=3454

Scroll down a bit and you can see clearly that Main Street was bailed out and repaired through stimulus funds, from the railroad tracks to Maryland state line in Newark more specifically.

Heh, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/12/census-victory-conservatives-target-hud-funds-acorn/

The Census Bureau notified ACORN on Friday in a letter that it is severing all ties with the group for all work having to do with the 2010 census.

"Over the last several months, through ongoing communication with our regional offices, it is clear that ACORN's affiliation with the 2010 Census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 Census efforts," read a letter from Census Director Robert M. Groves to the president of ACORN.

"Unfortunately, we no longer have confidence that our national partnership agreement is being effectively managed through your many local offices. For the reasons stated, we therefore have decided to terminate the partnership," the letter said.