San Jose Adult Entertainment: ACORN suspend programs in San Jose and East Bay
ACORN suspend programs in San Jose and East Bay
Posted: 09/30/2009 05:37:29 PM PDT
Updated: 09/30/2009 09:52:06 PM PDT
San Jose’s ACORN has closed its first-time homeowner program in the wake of the scandal that has also cost the national group its federal funding.
Allison Chadwick, a national spokeswoman for ACORN Housing, said all of its offices, including San Jose and the East Bay chapters, would suspend classes for first-time home buyers. However, foreclosure advice would continue.
ACORN, a nonprofit anti-poverty organization, is reeling from a sting operation by undercover conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp.
The pair videotaped ACORN housing workers in Baltimore and other locations offering them advice about cheating on taxes and operating a brothel with underage, immigrant girls. ACORN fired the workers but the video became an Internet sensation and political scandal.