Townhall.com’s Amanda Carpenter reports on our new discovery that ACORN is a major league tax deadbeat:

An intrepid researcher has discovered more than 200 tax liens totaling more than $3.7 million have been filed by the government against the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now’s for unpaid taxes since the late eighties.

A tax lien is issued when a person or organization fails to pay taxes and that tax debt is considered seriously delinquent. A lien is only issued after the government makes several unsuccessful attempts to collect the debt.

The conservative-leaning Capital Research Center’s Matthew Vadum found a staggering number of liens registered to ACORN’s 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue address in New Orleans, Louisiana while conducting an exhaustive investigation on ACORN’s activities.

“I took that address and plugged it into Nexis and did a public records search for tax liens,” Vadum said. “At least 230 tax liens corresponded to ACORN’s address and they were all from ACORN’s shadowy network of affiliates.” [...]

POST SCRIPT next day: Amanda Carpenter appeared on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” this morning and talked about our ACORN report. Here is the clip:

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