ACORN files for bankruptcy
ACORN, a national organization whose mission included registering and turning out low-income voters and those who are members of minority groups, announced Tuesday that it was filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
``ACORN has dissolved as a national structure of state organizations,'' said a senior official close to the group, who declined to be identified by name because of the fierce conservative attacks on the group that began when a conservative filmmaker caught some staffers of its tax advisory arms on tape appearing to offer advice on incorporating a prostitution business.