ACORN’S back -- and it’s occupying Wall Street.
The reincarnation of the defunct New York ACORN chapter -- a group called "New York Communities for Change" -- is a big supporter of the protesters in Zuccotti Park. Jon Kest, the former director of New York ACORN, now heads up NYCC, which is located in ACORN’s old headquarters on Nevins Street in Brooklyn.
“It has been amazing watching Occupy Wall Street grow over the past two weeks,” Kest said in a Sept. 30 statement on NYCC’s Web site. ACORN disbanded in 2010 after the release of embarrassing videos showing the group’s workers coaching conservative activists who were posing as clients how to fraudulently obtain benefits and use them to open a brothel.
Fox News reported yesterday that NYCC has been paying “dozens” of homeless people $10 an hour to sit in Zuccotti Park. The report also said NYCC canvassers go door-to-door asking for money for other causes like PCB relief in schools -- with the money funneled back to OWS. Jonathan Westin, NYCC’s organizing director and a former ACORN organizer, denied the reports. “In no way are we paying people to protest at Occupy Wall Street,” Westin said, adding that no donations were solicited under false pretenses...
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