Reply #106: It is perfectly possible that ACORN did prohibit illegal activity very clearly [View All]

and that these particular employees did not consider giving these people the "advice" they gave them illegal, or that they didn't care. I'm leaning to the latter because it's hard to imagine that anyone thinks it's fine to lend a helping hand to a child prostitution ring, or to break any law, whether or not the employer emphasizes that you are to do only legal things. In fact, I find it hard to imagine that, should your employer stress that breaking the law is acceptable, you would not know better than to believe that.

Beyond that, though, we don't know what happened among these people that we don't see in the video.

Mind you, I am not saying ACORN was not remiss. I am not saying it was remiss, either, though. I am saying that we do not have enough information to make either of those determinations. I am also saying that you cannot impute criminal conduct to an employer in the same way that you can impute civil liability to the lawyer.