I'm Shocked, Shocked to Find that Shredding is Going on in Here – ACORN Office Raided

Published Fri, Nov 6 2009 1:29 PM

A little over one year ago police raided ACORN's Nevada office. It was a big day, the agents secured 20 boxes of documents, eight computers, and here we are one year later ACORN is on trial in Nevada.

Today we've learned ACORN's New Orleans office has been raided by the Louisiana Attorney General's Office. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has been mounting a full-scale investigation of the corrupt organization.

NEW ORLEANS – [State] agents seized computers and other related equipment from the New Orleans ACORN offices Friday morning, according to Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell.

The seizures occurred starting at 8 a.m. at the offices on Canal Street after reports from ACORN attorneys that some material that might have been important to an investigation had disappeared.

Caldwell said the action occurred as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of theft and embezzlement.

A woman at the scene, who would only call herself an ACORN attorney, said she had 'no comment' as she ordered the gates of the building locked.

Files were disappearing? I'm shocked.

Fox News brings us the following update:

NEW ORLEANS —  Investigators for the Louisiana Attorney General executed a search warrant Friday at ACORN's New Orleans office in connections to allegations of embezzlement and tax fraud.

Spokeswoman Tammi Arender Herring said the search warrant was executed shortly after 9 a.m. and resulted in the seizure of computers, hard drives and documents.

"It is quite a bit of stuff," Herring said, adding that ACORN officials were "extremely cooperative."

The search warrant follows the removal of computers and other items by two unidentified former ACORN employees when they left the organization, according to ACORN attorneys.

Assistant Attorney General David Caldwell said the original allegations of embezzlement were made last year by ACORN board members who were terminated after asking for an examination of the activist group's books.

ACORN fired its longtime director of its Louisiana chapter last month, citing a lack of accountability.

Calls to Brian Kettenring, a spokesman for ACORN, were not immediately returned.

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