Obama Administration still Trying to find Corrupt Ways to Support ACORN

More Evidence of the Corruption within the Obama Administration...they are still giving money to ACORN despite Congressional Legislation not to do so...Again they don't care about the rule of law....it's all about them...

ACORN continues to receive taxpayer cash, group says

Published: Updated: 11:49 AM 07/06/2011 By Matthew Boyle - The Daily Caller

NEW YORK - JUNE 16: Businessmen walk by members of the activist housing group ACORN protest in front of Wall St.on June 16, 2009 in New York City. Members of the group, many of whom are facing foreclosure, demanded that the Obama Administration give more attention to resolving the foreclosure crisis, which is currently affecting million of American homeowners. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

In spite of a law aimed at de-funding the controversial organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is still receiving taxpayer money through an offshoot group.

Legal watchdog group Judicial Watch discovered that the Obama administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) issued a $79,819 grant to an ACORN offshoot, Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA). (NEA’s Obama endorsement comes as union’s influence wavers)

Though HUD intended the grant to be for AHCOA to “educate the public and housing providers about their rights and obligations under federal, state, and local fair housing laws,” the government website listing federal expenditures labels the recipient of the grant “ACORN HOUSING CORPORATION, INC.”

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told The Daily Caller this newly discovered grant appears to be in violation of an October 2009 law President Obama signed banning all funding of “ACORN and any ACORN-related affiliate.”

Fitton said the grant also appears to debunk what Judicial Watch calls a “controversial advisory opinion” the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued in September 2010, stating it considers AHCOA an entity sufficiently removed from ACORN that the funding ban shouldn’t apply to it.

“If President Obama is serious about the ACORN funding ban he signed in 2009, he’ll try to get to the bottom of this,” Fitton said, adding that Congress can withhold HUD’s funding and conduct oversight investigations into these new discoveries. “I think many members of Congress will be interested in this new development.”

Fitton told TheDC he expects that more grants like this one to turn up. “ACORN basically reorganized under a different name,” he said in a phone interview. “I don’t think this happened by accident. They’re all the same people still involved just working for organizations with different names.”

Fitton said he thinks it’s likely that HUD employees, whether political appointees from the Obama administration or career staffers, knew they were giving money to ACORN-affiliated organizations.

Obama administration HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan has a documented past with ACORN. In 2009, The New York Times reported that Donovan worked “particularly closely” with ACORN while working for New York City Kayor Michael Bloomberg. The Times story also documents Donovan’s ties with ACORN’s chief executive, Bertha Lewis.

A spokesman for HUD did not immediately return TheDC’s request for comment.