It takes a lot of nerve to launch a come-back at the epicenter of one’s disgrace, but that’s exactly what’s happened in Baltimore. After an employee of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was caught on videotape in Baltimore counseling undercover activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles on how to set up a brothel featuring underage victims from Central America, a national backlash forced Congress to cut off ACORN’s funding. In March 2010, Sonja Merchant-Jones, former co-chairwoman of ACORN’s Baltimore chapter, conceded that “the ACORN brand is probably ruined for life,” and said the tax-subsidized non-profit would no longer operate in her state. But Merchant-Jones was being less than honest. A month before she told the Baltimore Sun that ACORN would not try to rebrand itself in Maryland, its housing entity had already done precisely that. According to documents obtained from the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation by Examiner blogger Mark Newgent, ACORN Housing Corporation, Inc. (AHC) in Baltimore changed its name to the Affordable Housing Center of America, Inc. The name-change application listed the same board of directors, the same national headquarters in Chicago and even the same Baltimore office where O’Keefe and Giles caught ACORN red-handed just five months before.