Let's look at a typical scene during the War on Alcohol. In 1924, on the second floor of a nondescript brick shopping center on the northwest corner of 22nd and Michigan in Chicago, Illinois, Al Capone's chief accountant, Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik kept his gang's accounts receivable records along with ledgers detailing assets, expenses, and income of the world's largest bootlegging and prostitution ring.

One day those offices were raided by... Let me me get Kendall from The Chicago Crime Scenes Project to tell you the rest:

Johnny Torrio and Al Capone's Accounts Receivable Department

When Chicago police raided the doctor's office in April, 1924, and arrested Guzik, Frank Nitti, and Johnny Patton (the latter two were top lieutenants in the gang), they found ledgers showing major beer customers, locations of all speakeasies under Torrio-Capone control, details of the gang's liquor supply chain from Canada and the Carribean, corporate control documents for breweries owned and operated, and detailed T-charts for the suburban brothels in Stickney and Burnham. Embarrassingly, they also uncovered a list of police officers and federal agents receiving hush money.

The incredible findings were enough to shut down Torrio and Capone for good. As Mayor Dever told the newspapers, "We've got the goods now." Not only Chicago and Cook County authorities, but the Bureau of Investigation and the IRS in Washington prepared to examine the seized documents. William McSwiggin, the county attorney, was ready to empanel a grand jury.

Capone's men worked furiously behind the scenes. In Judge Howard Hayes, they found their man. Shortly after the raid, he summoned all seized records to his courtroom. The following day, without notifying McSwiggin, he returned all of these documents to Capone's attorneys, on the basis that the police had no search warrant for the accounting records, only for illegal liquor. A few weeks later, he dismissed all charges against the arrested men.

It would be interesting to speculate how far the Mafia might have gotten in this country if they had had a man in the White House at that time. It will be interesting to see how far ACORN will go now that they have their man in the White House.

The difference between ACORN and the Mafia? The Mafia uses private moneys generated by illegal activities to pay off law enforcement and politicians to overlook those activities. ACORN uses public moneys to engage in criminal activities and pays off law enforcement and politicians with some of those same public funds to overlook those activities.

Want to know how to tell if your state's Attorney General is corrupt and being paid off by ACORN? Simple: if your Attorney General has received contributions from ACORN and hasn't already brought charges against ACORN, then he is corrupt because it is impossible for ACORN to operate in your state without engaging in criminal behavior.

If this is not true, I dare your state's Attorney General to sue me for defamation of character. Send this article to your Attorney General and ask if what I write isn't true.

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Time to Ask Why Most State Attorneys General Are AWOL on ACORN

Mark Fitzgibbons, President of Corporate and Legal Affairs of American Target Advertising, Inc. issued the following statement regarding the failure of state attorneys general to take action against ACORN:

"Despite years of warning signs about voter fraud, embezzlement and other potentially criminal behavior by and within the Association for Community Organizing and Reform Now (ACORN), only a handful of state attorneys general apparently didn't need to be embarrassed by recent alternative media reporting and videos before taking some action against ACORN. Most state attorneys general have sat by idly, perhaps for political reasons with a trail quite probably leading to Washington, while ACORN has been busy racking up unchecked legal offenses.

"State attorneys general long ago should have investigated ACORN, and enforced various state laws against it. State attorneys general claim to have unique regulatory and enforcement authority over nonprofit organizations. Along with other state charitable oversight officials that require nonprofits to file information purportedly to prevent violations of law, state attorneys general have unique access to information that could have been used to take action against ACORN. Were they asleep, derelict in their duty, or worse?

"The question must be asked: was their failure to act the result of direct and indirect political support of Democratic politicians by ACORN, its direct affiliates, and its indirect affiliates such as the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)?

"For example, the ACORN Financial Justice Center graded state attorneys general in 2008 on their work in the home foreclosure crisis, which many believe ACORN-supported policies helped create. Basing its grades on factors including endorsing Senator Chris Dodd's and other federal Democratic legislation, and using taxpayer funds to train pro bono lawyers, ACORN gave grades of A+ only to Democratic attorneys general. The list of ACORN's A+ attorneys general by state: Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut), Martha Coakely (Massachusetts), Andrew Cuomo (New York), Lisa Madigan (Illinois), Tom Miller (Iowa), and Lori Swanson (Minnesota).

"Perhaps its time to investigate and review why so many state attorneys general failed to act, or act sooner, against ACORN. Attorneys general should begin by disclosing contributions received from, state taxpayer funding for, and attorneys' general ties, meetings and financial affiliations with, ACORN and its vast network."