Is ACORN operating in Maryland illegally?

(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Last week, when undercover journalists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles released video of staffers at the Baltimore office of ACORN offering advice on how to evade taxes and hide a child-prostitution ring, the City State’s Attorney responded by threatening to prosecute … O’Keefe and Giles. Before Patricia Jessamy attacks the messengers, she might want to review ACORN’s records. Big Government reports that ACORN forfeited their registrations in 2006 and 2008, and have no legal basis for operating in the state of Maryland:

Last week, we saw some pretty disturbing activities revealed in the undercover footage from ACORN Housing’s Baltimore office. By any measure of conduct, the actions of ACORN’s employees should never have happened. It turns out the actions shouldn’t have happened for another, very simple, reason: ACORN can’t legally operate in the state of Maryland.

According to the following documents, ACORN, Inc.–the parent organization of all things ACORN–forfeited its corporate charter in Maryland in 2006. ACORN Housing forfeited its corporate charter in 2008. Any ACORN office in the state of Maryland is potentially operating illegally.