ACORN names former Mass AG Harshbarger to investigate housing program following video

ACORN names former Mass AG investigator

WASHINGTON — The community activist group ACORN has selected a former Massachusetts attorney general to investigate its housing program after employees were caught on video giving advice to a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp.

ACORN announced Tuesday that Democrat Scott Harshbarger will conduct its internal investigation.

ACORN said last week that it was suspending the admission of new clients into its housing program pending the outcome of its investigation.

Video shot by the couple in Brooklyn appears to show ACORN employees advising the pair to lie about the source of their income or to launder the money to get housing assistance. The Brooklyn video and footage shot by the couple in other cities has been running on the Internet and television news programs for days.