The former deputy director of the agency, Amy Busefink, was sentenced to a year of probation after she pled ''no contest'' to at least two misdemeanor charges in January. She was charged with conspiracy for her role in the unlawful scheme.
The case, now going into its second year, has resulted in 26 counts of compensation for registration of voters. This is a felony in Nevada and the state's secretary of state said in 2009 that he would aggressively pursue any fraudulent activity and that anything that threatened the American voting process would not be tolerated on any level.
Not long after the investigation started, it was revealed that ACORN allowed people to register to vote using fake names, sometimes celebrity names that not only did not live in Nevada, but never have. Tony Romo, a member of the Dallas Cowboys Football Team, was one of those names used.
This is just another chapter in the ACORN tale. It's been in the spotlight for two years after secretly taped videos began surfacing that revealed members of the agency around the nation encouraged and even would have participated in various illegal activities if not for the undercover nature. Two activists posed as a prostitute and a pimp and traveled the country in order to ''get the goods'' on the agency. Before long, ACORN folded and since then has had one legal hurdle after another.
ACORN's attorney, Lisa Rasmussen, said she would work with prosecutors until all the details have been decided upon.
