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(2,938 posts) Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:06 AM Mar 2013

Hannah Giles Paid $50,000 to Fired San Diego ACORN Worker in Settlement Last July

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Hannah Giles Paid $50,000 to Fired San Diego ACORN Worker in Settlement Last July
News of payment follows on James O'Keefe's agreement last week to pay $100,000 to same secretly-taped former ACORN employee...

Pretend journalist and Republican activist Hannah Giles agreed to pay $50,000 to former San Diego ACORN worker Juan Carlos Vera as a part of a legal settlement struck last summer in response to an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed against her and her former partner James O'Keefe, Vera's attorney has confirmed to The BRAD BLOG.

Last week, in a scoop by the website Wonkette, it was disclosed that O'Keefe, a federal criminal and professional liar, agreed to pay $100,000 in his own legal settlement with the same former ACORN employee, after heading up the scheme to secretly videotape him in violation of California's Invasion of Privacy Act.

O'Keefe and Giles' illicit taping of Vera occurred as part of the deceptively edited series of hit videos released by the pair in 2009. The tapes were published, and paid for, by the late con-man Andrew Breitbart. Vera had been portrayed in the misleading video as having been willing to help the pair smuggle underage prostitutes into America across the Mexican border. In fact, Vera had played along with the duo's ridiculous proposed scheme only long enough to collect information from both O'Keefe and Giles, including taking their photographs, before contacting law enforcement immediately after the secretly video-taped meeting…

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Hannah Giles Paid $50,000 to Fired San Diego ACORN Worker in Settlement Last July (Original Post) BradBlog Mar 2013 OP

HA HA! nt OnyxCollie Mar 2013 #1

Good Coolest Ranger Mar 2013 #2

wonder if her grandmother will help bail her out. hobbit709 Mar 2013 #3

Juanita Jean will have fun with this Gothmog Mar 2013 #5

Message deleted by the DU Administrators freshwest Mar 2013 #10

Yeah, the article says she was payed 60k for the video. Ash_F Mar 2013 #17

I just forwarded this article to Juanita Jean Gothmog Mar 2013 #4

Gracias, Gothmog! BradBlog Mar 2013 #6

You are welcome Gothmog Mar 2013 #9

Here is Juanita Jean's response to this information Gothmog Mar 2013 #15

debtor's prison- maybe for this one wilt the stilt Mar 2013 #7

Did she get the money from her daddy? Grins Mar 2013 #8

Unlocking for now. I still think it doesn't meet LBN SOP but is borderline. Please make sure that uppityperson Mar 2013 #11

Thank you for unlocking this... BradBlog Mar 2013 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author uppityperson Mar 2013 #13

Sometimes the call is easy and obvious, in this case not so here you go uppityperson Mar 2013 #14

No prob BradBlog Mar 2013 #18

Must be nice to be able to pay 50k in a lawsuit. Ash_F Mar 2013 #16

OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)

1. HA HA! nt

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Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:08 AM

Mar 2013

Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)

2. Good

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Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:09 AM

Mar 2013

I'm glad she paid out something too. Now if only he could have sued Fox news and Brightbart.com for the mess in the first place.

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)

3. wonder if her grandmother will help bail her out.

Reply to BradBlog (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:11 AM

Mar 2013

http://juanitajean.com/2013/03/08/the-investigative-reporting-crime-syndicate/

Gothmog

(145,489 posts)

5. Juanita Jean will have fun with this

Reply to hobbit709 (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:39 AM

Mar 2013

I will be at a workshop with her on Saturday

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Ash_F

(5,861 posts)

17. Yeah, the article says she was payed 60k for the video.

Reply to freshwest (Reply #10)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 07:57 PM

Mar 2013

So she came out ahead. So did O' Keefe.

Gothmog

(145,489 posts)

4. I just forwarded this article to Juanita Jean

Reply to BradBlog (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:38 AM

Mar 2013

JUanita Jean has been following this story for a long time. Hannah's grandmother is from Fort Bend County. http://juanitajean.com/2013/03/08/the-investigative-reporting-crime-syndicate/

BradBlog

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6. Gracias, Gothmog!

Reply to Gothmog (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:42 AM

Mar 2013

Gothmog

(145,489 posts)

9. You are welcome

Reply to BradBlog (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 12:15 PM

Mar 2013

I am a fan of your work.

Gothmog

(145,489 posts)

15. Here is Juanita Jean's response to this information

Reply to BradBlog (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 06:55 PM

Mar 2013

http://juanitajean.com/2013/03/12/hard-hearted-hannah-2/

wilt the stilt

(4,528 posts)

7. debtor's prison- maybe for this one

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Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:45 AM

Mar 2013

I would make an exception.

Grins

(7,227 posts)

8. Did she get the money from her daddy?

Reply to BradBlog (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 12:07 PM

Mar 2013

"Dad" is Doug Giles, of RightWingNews. And I'm sure his traditional family values were passed to Hannah, and this is just another unfair assault from the "Libural" media.

uppityperson

(115,678 posts)

11. Unlocking for now. I still think it doesn't meet LBN SOP but is borderline. Please make sure that

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Tue Mar 12, 2013, 12:38 PM

Mar 2013

Last edited Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:04 PM - Edit history (1)

what you post isn't editorializing, opinion, background, etc but News.

Priorly wrote this, rather than edit it out, leaving for clarity.
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Locking, does not meet LBN SOP. Thank you.
It is not Late Breaking News but has been across the news sites for the last 4 days, as is written in your OP "Last week, in a scoop by the website Wonkette".

Also it is more commentary and would be a better fit for GD or Good Reads.

LBN has very specific rules and while this would be great to post in other forums, LBN is not the place. Thank you.

BradBlog

(2,938 posts)

12. Thank you for unlocking this...

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #11)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:53 PM

Mar 2013

...and doing so transparently. Clearly you had misread the article originally, as it was not about the O'Keefe settlement, but about the new details of the Giles settlement which I was reporting. If the error was in any way my fault, my apologies.

As to "editorializing, opinion and background" versus "news", I find it difficult to report the news w/o also offering the appropriate background. And while my own opinions may also be contained in my breaking news stories, that is true of EVERY media outlet. But what some may refer to as "editorializing", such as calling O'Keefe a "con-man", I consider to be hard fact, but believe I have proven as much, with facts, during the course of my reporting.

In any case, I thank you again for reevaluating your original opinion and making this story available again to DU readers. I shared the news here with them before anybody else after original publication -- including my own Facebook page or even Salon (where my story has now been cross-published) -- as I've tried to do for years here whenever possible.

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uppityperson

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14. Sometimes the call is easy and obvious, in this case not so here you go

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Wed Mar 13, 2013, 12:16 AM

Mar 2013

Keep sharing news and sorry it took me so long. I was going to pm you back when I unlocked and got busy elsewhere, another apology. PM being sent now.

BradBlog

(2,938 posts)

18. No prob

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #14)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 01:49 AM

Mar 2013

Much appreciate all. (Even if I disagree with the notion that this was not an easy call!)

Ash_F

(5,861 posts)

16. Must be nice to be able to pay 50k in a lawsuit.

Reply to BradBlog (Original post)

Wed Mar 13, 2013, 07:50 PM

Mar 2013

Too bad most of the people ACORN helped don't have that luxury. They just go to jail when they mess up.

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