Evidently, this story has moved from the conservative media to the MSM. I found this part interesting since, not only does ACORN make this claim, but their mouth pieces in the MSM (like the NY Times), do as well:

ACORN has portrayed its problems as the unfortunate work of a few employees. In the best case, that suggests it made bad hires and gave them poor training and supervision. But when the founder of a national organization admits attempting to keep quiet his brother’s theft of more than $900,000, it’s a sign that ACORN’s problems may rise high and run deep.

And this is pretty telling, don’t you think?

The group is confident it can ride out its troubles.
“The majority of our funding comes from our membership and from our supporters,” spokesman Brian Kettenring said. “Any attempt to try to limit our access to particular sets of funding is not likely to have much impact on our core operations. It will hurt the individuals that benefit from that particular project. It’s pretty clear this sort of attempt to cut off funding is politically motivated more than sort of driven by a high-minded concern for good governance.”

ACORN is sure that supporters will continue to hand over money to an organization that doesn’t vet or train it’s employees properly and they’re probably right. Apparently, ACORN workers enabling a pimp to set up a child prostitution brothel doesn’t faze the left.
And if the efforts to defund ACORN are purely political, then it’s a sad commentary on our politicians.
BTW, for those of you who would give them a pass because they work with the poor and evidently, you think no one else does, I suggest you educate yourself and read this article.
And evidently, they don’t appear to mind exploiting their own workers:

According to an NLRB case accusing ACORN of unfair labor practices, “field organizers were expected to work long hours each week — 54 hours — and were paid at a salary of $16,000 annually until January 2001, when the salary was raised to $18,000.”