Clearly you don't get in this type of mess by following best practices. I didn't say the charges were nonsense. I said I am not sure there's tax fraud there. I just read one comment about the 9600 figure -- if that was what she was supposed to be making then, after breaking away from a pimp, that might have been a suggestion that she commit tax fraud, that's true.
If it was supposed to be a historic figure, well, is it really her income if the pimp takes it away from her? That's the crux of the matter, and it's a legitimate question. When I had it, by the way, I was a contractor for the Department of Education and it was an official request for guidance from her college financial aid advisor. I asked for guidance before answering the question and though that was quite a while ago the thinking is unlikely to have changed much. A prostitute is supposed to report her income and essentially make a good faith effort to do so truthfully, knowing that she might be audited. So it is not tax fraud to help her do that. The heart of the matter is whether the pimp is taking the money or she is giving it and whether he truthfully is doing anything to earn it. Since it turns on coercion it has to be answered on a case-by-case basis. The answer in my Pell grant scenario was that the application was likely to be flagged and that would require a review of her application and situation by a human being at the community college financial aid department. So if they believed that she honestly had not had the use of the money, that was what counted. There does seem to be be some turning of a blind eye going on in these ACORN encounters. But prostitution is a reality in these neighborhoods. I guess these employees may have known people who were involved, and possibly did not see it as wrong. That *is* a problem though. I am thinking that it would be against public policy to make a loan to a young woman who is going to have to break the law to make the payments so if these are FHA loans that's a problem, and even if they are private lenders, there may be some regulatory controls that are being flouted. I don't think that's ok, but I see this in greyscale personally.... I am still looking at the Brooklyn transcript. On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Sam <[email protected]> wrote: > > Did you not read that congress voted to remove funding, the employees > were all fired and now ACORN offices nationwide are closed for > retraining? > > But the charges were nonsense :) > > > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Sam you can google and find *anything* on the internet. > > > > Actually, in the short time I was associated with ACORN I registered > quite a > > few Rebublicans. > > > > Low income housing led to government takeovers? WHAT are you smoking?? > > > > Overloading the welfare system? where did that come from? It's already > > broken, Sam, it has been for decades, but where exactly do you figure > ACORN > > comes into that? > > > > By the way, I just read the DC transcript. Mention of girls, nothing > about > > their age. The woman tells them they cannot get a loan without > documentation > > then says well, here's my card, since you are a nice guy trying to get > her > > out of the life, call me later and I'll try. > > > > Huh. Obviously a threat to society. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:304282 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
