{"id":1397,"date":"2008-10-20T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xbizx.com\/index.php\/1397\/acorn-drops-lawsuit-over-embezzlement-chicago-sun-times\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T19:30:09","slug":"acorn-drops-lawsuit-over-embezzlement-chicago-sun-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1397\/acorn-drops-lawsuit-over-embezzlement-chicago-sun-times\/","title":{"rendered":"ACORN drops lawsuit over embezzlement &#8211; Chicago Sun-Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/elections\/1231617,acorn-lawsuit102008.article'>ACORN drops lawsuit over embezzlement &#8211; Chicago Sun-Times<\/a><br \/>NEW ORLEANS     The board of a national activist group embroiled in controversy over its voter registration practices has decided to withdraw an unrelated lawsuit over claims that the founder   s brother embezzled nearly $1 million, a spokesman said   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/opinion\/letters\/bal-ed.le.letters20s21oct20,0,906280.story'>ACORN unfairly tilts process in its favor &#8211; Baltimore Sun<\/a><br \/>It comes as no surprise that ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is trying to cheat the electoral system by registering phony voters to sway the 2008 election (&#8220;ACORN defends sign-ups; GOP lawmakers seek probe,&#8221; Oct. 15   <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/ap\/nation\/6068488.html'>ACORN board: No lawsuit over embezzlement claim &#8211; Houston Chronicle<\/a><br \/>NEW ORLEANS     A national activist group&#8217;s board of directors has voted to withdraw a lawsuit over allegations that the founder&#8217;s brother embezzled nearly $1 million. The embezzlement case has set off a power struggle inside the Association of   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ACORN drops lawsuit over embezzlement &#8211; Chicago Sun-TimesNEW ORLEANS The board of a national activist group embroiled in controversy over its voter registration practices has decided to withdraw an unrelated lawsuit over claims that the founder s brother embezzled nearly $1 million, a spokesman said ACORN unfairly tilts process in its favor &#8211; Baltimore SunIt &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/1397\/acorn-drops-lawsuit-over-embezzlement-chicago-sun-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ACORN drops lawsuit over embezzlement &#8211; Chicago Sun-Times<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}