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Video Prompts Acorn Firings

Two Appear To Give Tax Advice To Pair Posing As Pimp, Prostitute

September 11, 2009|By Justin Fenton , justin.fenton@baltsun.com

Giles, a 20-year-old student, told FOX News host Glenn Beck that she came up with the idea for the video and funded the project herself. "I saw them as a thug organization getting my tax dollars," Giles told Beck, who said he first viewed the video Saturday.

The ACORN employees appear to show no hesitation in helping Giles and O'Keefe, a 25-year-old filmmaker. In the video, O'Keefe introduces himself as a Johns Hopkins graduate student with aspirations of running for Congress. He and Giles describe their work as an "off-the-books" business catering to "male clients" several times before making clear that they are discussing prostitution.

One employee appears to discuss ways that the pair might justify the business ("Let's see - independent artists, you could be that," she says), and the other tells them to "train" their prostitutes to "keep their mouth shut." The four extensively discuss the issue of underage foreigners living in a home that Giles says she is trying to buy.

FOR THE RECORD - An article in Friday's editions misstated the Web site on which a video depicting employees at the Baltimore office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) first appeared. The footage made its debut at BigGovernment.com.
The Baltimore Sun regrets the error.

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In telling the pair about a coming conference, which was held in August, the employees also encourage them to purchase a membership to ACORN

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