Results tagged “hiddencamera”

The right-wing smear campaign against community organizing group ACORN is having the desired effect; yesterday the Senate voted 83-7 to deny housing and community grant funding to the non-profit organization. The vote—prompted by last week's arrest of ACORN employees in Florida accused of falsifying hundreds of voter applications last year—came as an unflattering secret camera video shot in ACORN's Brooklyn office surfaced. The video shows two ACORN employees advising a young couple, posing as prostitute and pimp, how to falsify documents to get a mortgage and tax breaks for a brothel housing El Salvadoran teens.

Newsday reports that Robert Infantino, who calls himself "Long Island's Favorite Magician, was arrested for allegedly "secretly videotaping" a woman and her two daughters "during a 'free photo shoot' at his home." Oh no, not the "free photo shoot" scam! Infantino's other business, Infantino Productions offers "Family Photography, Modeling, Headshots, and more" and adds "If you'd like a FREE photo shoot...contact me and we'll go over the details of what you're interested in doing (family, fashion, headshots, glamour, etc)." Apparently the woman and her girls, ages 10 and 14, took him up on the offer but then noticed a "camera hidden in a box in a changing room" where they had been changing outfits. Newsday says he was charged with three counts of second-degree unlawful surveillance.