I posted this as a comment but I realized my leads went into a different direction.

ACORN-OBAMA connection runs deep: Project Vote/Voting for America is Barack Obama’s former employer.

October 2008 Whistle blowers blow up collusion between ACORN and the Obama campaign http://archive.fo/hFDtI#selection-609.254-609.316

Judicial Watch claims ACORN has its hands in all kinds of dirt https://archive.fo/riKYi

Take for example voter fraud https://archive.fo/kPnYT

*"ACORN has repeatedly and deliberately engaged in systematic fraud and that the group hides behind a paper wall of nonprofit corporate protections to conceal a criminal conspiracy on the part of its directors, to launder federal money in order to pursue a partisan political agenda and to manipulate the American electorate." *

October 1, 2009, President Obama signed into law legislation known that effectively prohibits the federal government from granting taxpayer dollars to “ACORN and any ACORN-related affiliate.”

October 2009 Wikileaks email deduces that ACORN includes prostitution and human trafficking https://archive.fo/FsOf1

Re: Pencil Fall Training Visit From Anya.Alfano(at)stratfor(dot)com To burton(at)stratfor(dot)com, stewart(at)stratfor(dot)com, alfano(at)stratfor(dot)com, zucha(at)stratfor(dot)com, burtonfb(at)att.blackberry(dot)net, longbow99(at)earthlink(dot)net

"Re ACORN, it seems to me that the analysis should be whether solicitation of crimes (election fraud, tax fraud, human smuggling, prostitution) is ACORN policy, or does the latest scandal reflect the "stick it to da man" attitude of the kind of street operatives ACORN attracts and recruits. As GF says, you judge them by what they do, not what they say. Either way, they need to clean up quickly or disappear: They are hurting the reputation of people far better than they are, whether or not you agree with the liberal agenda. And in fairness, when crimes are committed by, say, the CIA, we don't say the individual operatives dunnit: We say the CIA dunnit."

January 26, 2010 ACORN Scandal Investigators charged with attempting to "illegally access and manipulate the phone system in a district office of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana" https://archive.fo/dqn7m

February 2010 Media Matters calls the ACORN scandal a "myth" https://archive.fo/iW1FB

March 2010 Obama shuts down FBI investigation into ACORN: https://archive.fo/P0yF0

March 22, 2010, ACORN announced it was closing its remaining state chapters and was disbanding

November 2, 2010, former ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis and former ACORN General Counsel Arthur Schwartz filed for Chapter 7 liquidation.

Judicial Watch obtains FBI investigation documents. Reports that though ACORN changed it's name after the scandal and bankruptcy, it now operates in the form of numerous state entities and in such affiliated organizations. ACORN uses the same network and institutions and revenue streams, including

ACORN International Affordable Housing Centers of America (received a $79,819 grant from U.S. Housing and Development (HUD) on March 1, 2011) The Advance Group The Black Institute Association for the Rights of Citizens Project Vote/Voting for America US Housing and Development [State orgs] * Arkansas Community Organizations * Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment * A Community Voice * Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change * Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment * New England United for Justice * New York Communities for Change * Mutual Housing Association of New York * Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change * Texas Organizing Project * Texas Organizing Project Educational Fund (received a one-year grant of $150,000 from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation in 2010.) * Organization United for Reform

– https://archive.fo/uC71S

Wikileaks corroboration: "Acorn" has morphed in to a different named organization, doing the same old thing and getting the same old U. S. Government money." – https://archive.fo/Ks3V6

FURTHER RESEARCH NEEDED!!! HAITI - ACORN CONNECTIONS? Patrick Gaspard (in office January 20, 2009 – February 1, 2011) is the Director of the White House Office of Political Affairs and is the highest ranking Haitian-American official in the Obama Administration. https://archive.fo/YZnen 2013 - Current Ambassador to South Africa.

December 2009 Gaspard is ACORN liaison to the White House. http://archive.fo/YZnen

*Re: ACORN

On 12/22/2009 1:47 PM, Fred Burton wrote:

Who is the ACORN liaison to the WH?

I think Patrick Gaspard is still there. Director of Political Affairs. He's closely affiliated with ACORN and all sorts of labor unions, SEIU etc.*

The brother of Patrick Gaspart is Michael Gaspard, who is Counsel for The Advance Group (ACORN spin off)