A group of dissident members is seeking a federal investigation of ACORN for alleged criminal violations stemming from an embezzlement scandal that rocked the organization last year.
The splinter group, ACORN 8, released a 24-page document Wednesday that asks federal investigators to consider fraud, embezzlement and conspiracy charges, and criminal civil rights violations relating to the embezzlement of nearly $1 million from the nonprofit's accounts and an alleged cover-up of the theft for almost a decade.
"Moreover, due to the admission that a felony has been committed, other federal offenses may have also been committed ... ," states the document signed by 14 members of ACORN 8, including recently expelled members of ACORN's national board of directors.
The embezzlement and accusations of voter registration fraud in at least eight states, including Pennsylvania, have cost ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- the support of a benefactor that gave the activist group $7 million in the past decade.
Presumably these dissidents are Dems who have enough clout to keep these investigations going in an Obama Justice Dept. It wasn't close this time.
P.S. One of the dissidents apparently was a naive idealist--and is especially tenacious now:
Inman, a retired school teacher who lives in St. Paul, Minn., became a dues-paying ACORN member about four years ago when an ACORN worker knocked on her door and sang the praises of the group's work.
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