ACORN Awarded $1M Grant Over Firefighters


	ACORN Awarded $1M Grant Over Firefighters

merrie

10-7-2009 7:51 AM

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$1million earmarked for firefighters, acorn, ag buddy caldwell, ceo bertha lewis, embezzlement, sen. david vitter la-r requests rescind this grant

merrie says:

NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana's attorney general said Tuesday he has stepped up an investigation into embezzlement at ACORN nearly a decade ago, but the prosecutor and community activist group clashed over how much money was taken.

Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell claimed the figure was $5 million, but ACORN said the sum hadn't changed from slightly less than $1 million.

ACORN said its chief executive officer estimated it could cost up to $5 million to "get everything together" in the aftermath of the embezzlement, but the group's leaders claim only $948,607 was stolen.

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