The fall of ACORN: A timeline

Scandal-plagued community organizing group ACORN has confirmed it will dissolve after 40 years of operations. A brief history of ACORN's rise and fall

ACORN's history is fraught with scandal.
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Scandal-plagued community group ACORN is formally disbanding. It will reportedly reorganise all of its local and state chapters as independent, non-affiliated organizations. ACORN, already facing intense criticism over voter-registration fraud allegations, imploded after conservative activists, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, last year secretly videotaped organization employees giving advice on evading taxes and setting up a brothel. Here, a quick timeline of the rise and fall of ACORN:

ACORN is founded, 1970

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