Nearly $1 million in Homeland Security funding typically earmarked for fire departments has been awarded to ACORN

It was one of only three such grants issued to the state and made up almost 80 percent of the firefighting money earmarked for Louisiana

The Monroe Fire Department was the only squad in Louisiana to receive a grant and will be awarded $192,000. The Louisiana State Fire Marshal's Office will receive $62,000.

ACORN received $997,402, slightly less than the maximum allowable grant of $1 million.

When asked how the money would be spent, ACORN spokesman Brian Kettenring issued a statement criticizing the senator, who confessed in the past to having used an escort service.

"This is speculation, completely false and not based on any documentation or any audit or anything other than two disgruntled former board members," Ms. Lewis said Tuesday at a National Press Club news conference during which she accused the group's critics of racism.

And for those that haven't been following the news, the reference to the embezzlement charges, which we have discussed on these boards before as direct evidence of criminal activity at ACORN, can be found here in this Reuter's article from 2008 and catch up on the lates claims that the [u]embezzlement was actually ~$5 million, not the ~$1 million previously admitted.

KBR lost something like 20 billion dollars. It just went poof. They also prevented their employees from reporting sexual assaults. One of their female employees was gang raped, and then chained in a shipping container for days.

As for that $20 billion figure for KBR, the company has far from a clean record, but I don't see anything that even approaches that amount of money. I also don't see that any money just "went poof" or was "lost".

I can only find articles at small news agencies about it, but I've read that ACORN is only losing its funding for one month. So basically they get to continue state-sponsored, tax-payer funded corruption.

Wow, so ACORN is corrupt in it's nature because a few of their employees are corrupt?

Blackwater? They are a group of for-profit killers. Why they can get away with that and a hit man can't, I'll never understand. I just don't see much of a comparison there.

9 billion lost in Iraq, 2005

KBR wastes billions

I did get my wires crossed. In fairness, it was pretty difficult to tell the prvious administration's fumbles apart from their pet company's.

The same reason the Army can get away with killing people and a hitman can't.

No, in fairness, you invented a number that was more than twice the actual number and didn't even apply to the company you said it did.

The Army is not a private, for profit organization. At least, not in theory. Our military is controlled by our civillian government, which is elected by the people. They have a duty the country, not to their bottom line. That is why they are different.

So, the fact that they lost/wasted more than the amount that I originally claimed is completely lost on you?