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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 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.”

Both women appear enthusiastic to help.

Calls to ACORN’s Baltimore offices were not immediately returned Thursday.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Not excusing them, but I wonder where they learned these dirty, underhanded tax evasion tricks? This guy went to ACORN and filmed this because of the link between this group and President Obama…I wish someone would go to AIG and ask them for advice on how to sell insurance policies without enough capital to pay it off, if there is ever a claim…Those bogus “credit default swaps” cost the tax payers billions, and was/is a huge contributor to the worse economic collapse since 1934!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SoularFlarez/ SoularFlarez

    this da same ACORN that shorted all them people outta their money?

    the workers who helped campaign for Obama gettin elected, alot of the workers were expecting $300 checks and ended up gettin checks like $100 dollars….

    FREE WESLEY SNIPES

    f**k the IRS… i thought extortion was illegal ???
    f**k the Federal Reserve too

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Aint this about a b!tch.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Red_Clay_Chronicles/ Red_Clay_Chronicles

    _A_….So you honestly believe that these activists, who are championing the same cause as most ACORN members, are attacking ACORN because they supported President Obama? Seriously??? It can’t just be that someone reported shady business practices by this local ACORN office, and people took it upon themselves to expose the illegality of this goings on at this particular branch??? Why does it have to be some great conspiracy, because Black people that supported President Obama got caught doing illegal s**t?? Anyway, I’ve never thought of prostitution as a performing art, for the purpose of tax breaks. Why not call it faith healing, set up a nationwide network of “healers”, and try & claim religious exemption while getting tax-free status?? These two simple @ss females just take the cake with this one….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/earthling/ earthling

    Black people again getting caught playing the white man’s game. Do get caught doing what you accuse other people of doing.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/earthling/ earthling

    correction:

    Black people again getting caught playing the white man’s game. Don’t get caught doing what you accuse other people of doing.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GOT-FLAVA1/ GOT-FLAVA1

    Well what do u know. Obama’s group is at it again. Not just in Baltimore…but in D.C too!!!! the ACORN doesnt fall to far from the tree. The media and black people are steady dismissing this man (Obama) and he representing them in court to force banks to risky loans. Still think its coincidence? What about Obama’s Green Job Advisor Van Jones. Jones is an admitted COMMUNIST. Obama said himself look at the people he surrounds himself with to shape his agenda.ACORN this fraudlent group is no different. WAKE UP BLACK PEOPLE! Obama and his cronies in Congress as well as criminal group ACORN are dangerous to Americans. And yes i support the congressman who called Obama a liar. Obama is a liar, plain and simple.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GOT-FLAVA1/ GOT-FLAVA1

    Oh yeah remember black people they are playin with your hard earned tax dollars. WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    Red_Clay…What I’m saying is, This organization has been under fire since the elections..They have been attacked, and remember early on, some RW commentators actually accused the group of secretly being Obama’s personal organization, and getting marching orders from him…If you YouTube any video of ACORN right now, most of the videos will be about voter registration fraud…I’m not excusing these two idiots, because the first time some “pimp” said to me that the cops are “prejudicial” against us, I would have known something was up! I’m dealing with the hypocrisy here more than anything..This sort of shady s**t is commonplace…You have to ask yourself, why is all the focus on groups like ACORN? while these Wall Street investment banks are STILL involved with shady practices which result in the theft of billions of dollars? just wondering what the REAL motivation to this could really be! How many people have cheated taxes, and for decades? This is a hit piece, not meant to expose wrong doing, but rather to smear Obama…Most people never even heard of ACORN (including myself) before the media started linking it to Obama..Think about what the subliminal message is with this! Don’t get me wrong, because I realize I sound like an Obama cheerleader right now..I”m not…not hardly..I view Obama as the same type of puppet that Bush was..”yes we can” wasn’t referring to the everyday man!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nanapeppa/ nanapeppa

    SoularFlarez & _A_, you BOTH said it best!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/X-TORTION/ X-TORTION

    Figures.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XL_611/ XL_611

    I can’t believe what I’m seeing, except in terms the Philly and other offices called DC and told them to look out, these people were coming and put on a show for them. In fact, I heard a news blurb where the “videographers” were being scruitinized by the federal attorney for illegal wiretap charges.

    No one is that stupid. They had to know something was up and were putting on a show to see what came out of it. It wouldn’t surprise me to find out they were federal officers investigating these people for prosecution purposes.

    In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me to find out that a lot of ACORN violations are the result of plants by racist groups to throw off ACORN’s accomplishments, whatever they may be.

    The Supreme Court has ruled blacks to be in a suspect class and that’s how I’ve always viewed them as well. For those that don’t know, suspect class means basically that any allegations of wrong doing are automatically suspected to be the work of others or have been brought about through no fault of their own, and so forth.

    I need to point out though that I don’t agree one iota with ACORN’s collectivist ideology but then when you deal with people in poverty, the collective wealth of the community is about your only resource so naturally that’s where their activities will reside…..LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mesearching4ago2girl/ mesearching4ago2girl

    xl-611 that was well said….you was on point and I cannot agree with you more, including the humor you added in their,lol. Good job!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XL_611/ XL_611

    Ty mesearching. But, if these women are in fact legitimate employees of ACORN, what does that say about this group?

    The DC office is no backwater location. This is a prominent location and with the MILLIONS of dollars ACORN has at it’s disposal, they should be able to pay for very professional and highly trained people to staff their front and primary offices.

    So, ACORN is running the very large and looming risk that they’ll be seen as a profiteering organization, not a non-profit charity organization, on those facts alone.

    And every accusation of previous wrong doing is going to gain at least one step of credibility, if not entire credibility.

    So, unless these women were somehow participating in an investigation, ACORN is through…….

    LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/deshawn121/ deshawn121

    the way the pimp and prostitute was dressed should have been a red light that this was a joke, but its hard to believe that anyone would be so damn stupid to really try and help them do illegal activities unless they were practicing this before.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lilnono/ lilnono

    I cosign Deshawn. I don’t see how anybody could be gullible enough to fall for that trick . Maybe the “acorn employees” were actors too. Got flava , what does this have to do with president Obama. Acorn is not Obama’s group.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/missiwantyourmoney/ missiwantyourmoney

    And they want to know why these kids are so crazy!!!!!!!!!they learn these things from there parents no one has mention there are kids laughing and playing in the back ground why they are talking about child sex slaves…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GOT-FLAVA1/ GOT-FLAVA1

    Lilnono…..do your research. ACORN is Obama’s group. Back in the 80′s and i believe 90′s Obama trained some of the ACORN employees (not these employees in the video). Do your research on this fraudalent group. Obama was lawyer for this group. There is Youtube video of Obama speaking at an ACORN meeting saying “their views will shape his agenda during his presidency”. There are many strong and undeniable ties of Obama to ACORN. As a matter of fact this same group went to court to force banks to take on risky mortgage loans. Follow the trail and your find the truth.

    One last thing, the individuals in this video shouldnt be to blame. They are just trying to keep the lights on at home. It is the SYSTEM that is corrupt. Its the head person at ACORN who people should go after.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/manofleisure/ manofleisure

    I think the folks at News One and CNN need to stop a moment, look at those videos again, and then look up the meaning of the word “Allegedly”! Because when I look at those videos, I dont see “Alleged” criminal activity – I see american men and women comfortably and confidently talking about the enslavement and abuse of foreign women and young girls….yeah, the tax stuff is bad – but it’s the abuse that bothers me!

    I dont think there is a judge on the planet that would not – at a minimum – rule to close down ACORN, and throw those 4 (no, with the San Bernadino video it is now 6) people in jail!

    While I dont think this has anything specifically to do with President Obama – though I am sure if these ACORN workers had been videotaped rescuing a little boy from a well, our President would have been right in the middle of all the cameras, shaking hands and praising ACORN. This scandal in the making might not have anything to do with him directly, but his silence on the issue is pretty damning. I mean – he stuck up for Skip Gates when Gates was clearly crazy (because normal people dont yell at armed policemen…) Why not stick up for your old hommies at ACORN too?

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fredal1/ fredal1

    Unless the LADIE’S that gave tax advice or tax information were CITIFIED CPA or PROFESSION TAX PREPARER, than it seem to that the information they gave were there opinion and had no value at all

    IF THE RECEPTIONIST OF A FORTUNE FIVE HUNDRED COMPANY GAVE AN WRONG OPINION =, DON’T MEAN THE COMPANY SHOULD BE CLOSE DOWN AND THE PRESIDENT BE PUT IN JAIL. A DISCIPLINE WAS IN-ORDER FOR SPEAKING ON SOMETHING THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT ON COMPANY TIME. BUT SHOULD BE THE END OF IT.
    ANY INTELLIGENT PERSON WOULD HAVE CONSIDER WHO GAVE THE INFORMATION.

    Although they were wrong in giving information they had no knowledge about because I know that acorn WOULD NOT teach WRONG INFORMATION IN THEIR training programs

    If this information were taught to the employee, than it will be acorn responsibily

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