ACORN Leaders Attempting Stealth Consolidation

"Over the last 18 months, ACORN chief organizer Bertha Lewis, executive director Steve Kest, and his brother Jon Kest have secretly sought to consolidate ACORN resources and power in its New York branch. We have learned that New York ACORN has shut down its operation in Brooklyn and handed its lease over to New York Communities for Change, a new nonprofit organization formed by community activists and former staff and leaders of — wait for it — New York ACORN."