Acorn Board Votes to Drop Lawsuit
October 21, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
The board of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, a national activist group in New Orleans that has been criticized by the Republican presidential ticket for its voter-registration practices, has decided to withdraw an unrelated lawsuit over claims that its founder’s brother embezzled close to $1-million from the organization, the Associated Press reports.
Two of 51 board members of the group, known as Acorn, sued for access to the group’s financial records. But the rest of the board voted this past weekend to withdraw the lawsuit, which accused Acorn founder Wade Rathke of either concealing or failing to properly report that his brother Dale had misappropriated $948,000 from the group and affiliated charitable organizations in 1999 and 2000.
Dale Rathke did not comment in the article.
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