What does Barack Obama know about ACORN's fraud?

Following the end of Yom Kippur, I tuned into FOX and saw a report about ACORN, a left-wing organization, being investigated for voter fraud. Investor's Business Daily (via Hot Air) has some more info on this group, which Obama, who worked for one of their branches in Illinois, publicly endorsed:

For starters, Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen Services Inc. for “advance work.”)

What’s more, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN’s voter-registration arm, Project Vote, in 1992. Joined by two other community organizers on Chicago’s South Side, Obama conducted the voter-registration drive that helped elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the Senate that year.

The next year, 1993, Obama joined the civil-rights law firm Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland, where he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law, which the GOP governor at the time refused to do. Then-Gov. Jim Edgar argued, presciently, that the Clinton law would invite voter fraud.

The New York Post has more news on the nationwide fraud pattern too. And there's more news on ACORN here, and here.

Trackposted to Cao's Blog, Democrat = Socialist, Diary of the Mad Pidgeon, Leaning Straight Up, NN&V, Perri Nelson's Website, Pink Flamingo, Take Our Country Back, Woman Honor Thyself, The World According to Carl. Others on the subject include Ace of Spades HQ, The Anchoress, The Barton Bulletin, Right Voices, Political Party Poop, MishMashZone.