Judge Orders 25-Year-Old O'Keefe To Live With His Parents

Source: Talking Points Memo

Judge Orders 25-Year-Old O'Keefe To Live With His Parents
Justin Elliott | January 28, 2010, 11:12AM


As if James O'Keefe hasn't suffered enough indignity after botching an alleged phone tampering operation at a U.S. senator's office, getting arrested, and being photographed leaving jail, the judge in the case has now ordered that he reside with his parents until the next hearing.

Magistrate Judge Louis Moore made the order Tuesday as part of the conditions of release for O'Keefe, 25. (Read them here)
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/01/james-okeefes-conditions-of-release.php?page=1

The young conservative filmmaker is free on $10,000 bond. A preliminary hearing in the case is set for February 13.

It's not clear where O'Keefe, who hasn't said much publicly since getting out jail, is right now. But his father, the elder James O'Keefe, told the AP "I'm confident this was poor judgment ... but not much more." James and Deborah O'Keefe live in New Jersey, the state where Moore ordered the younger O'Keefe to remain while out on bond.

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Does this mean he has to move up from the basement???

(non-rhetorical question...)

It's a federal case, not a state case.

and use the state's jurisdiction laws?

Probably not

He's gone into a big level. Sort of like the pot dealer across the street from the Jr High School ... poor judgment.

Down to mom's basement with you, O'keefe, where the other chickenhawk freepers will do doubt welcome your felonious ass.

And they wouldn't let him online as punishment.

I laughed so loud my dog looked up at me to see if I was ok...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

the snotty nosed brat would be on the naughty steps all day long. :D

Too funny!

Granted they are all 24 and grown adults who knew exactly what the fuck they were doing...commiting treason.

What a surprise!

no one tries something THIS ballsy without some powerful and influential backing behind the scenes...I wouldn't be surprised if the charge was eventually knocked down to "Tresspassing" or something...

getting away with this.

Is that normal without a conviction? And he is not permitted to talk to anyone who may be involved in the case, as a witness etc.

As is the injunction not to coach anyone who may be a witness.

To reduce the risk of flight while on bail.

And this guy obviously does have the means.

didn't know that.

- Boy, that was a really speedy trial. So his sentece is to live with his parents, eh? Indefinitely I hope.

K&R

i mean.....

:rofl:

You bad, bad baby man. You act like a child and the courts will treat you like one too.

Now lets see him pimp his crib at daddy's address. :evilgrin:

Sonia

and freeze his facebook/twitter accounts as well.

:rofl:

I forget his name. The dip shit who sent white powder like it was anthrax to some Dem officials, all while living in his mom's basement and typing madly at Freak Republic about liberals.

Videos of his travels or lack thereof would be very entertaining.

After he recovers from the body welts that happen when beat someone with a belt or whatever is solid and they happen to have handy that is solid and is sure as shit going to hurt he might have enough time to be examined for long term head trauma and post traumatic stress dissorder.

so....if your rich enough..or right winger enough..you can committe a major felony....and only get a slap on the wrist and sent home to mom and daddy....
Yup...Thats Justice in American courts today....

but i think it does look like the judge is falling for the youthful prank stuff.

Same thing Bonnie and Clyde's parents said!

and if they are gonna get retaliation for harboring a bailed-out criminal. This is both funny (adult ordered by court to live with parents while out on bail) and concerning at once.

:shrug:

Best doppelganger yet:

professional asshole. How proud his parents must be...:evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :evilgrin: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

They don't like this story, their boy in big trouble. Wow! :shrug:

His father says this is "bad judgment".

Gee, since when is wiretapping a U.S. Senator's office just "boys being boys"?

This story gets more surreal with each story.

I really hate how there are no absolutes, no right or wrong, in this country anymore. Wiretapping
a U.S. Senator's office is now some kind moral gray area. The right wingers are excusing this behavior
and minimizing it. No longer are crimes just crimes. It depends on what political stripe you are and
what the blowhards in right-wing radio have to say about it. Then, this echo chamber becomes part of the
dialog and the debate--as if totally warping any sense of morality--is a legitimate side of a debate.

When this happened in Watergate--at least the seriousness of the crime was acknowledged. No one stood
around, saying that the burglars were right because of their intentions. No one minimized the crime as
a bunch of silly boys doing silly stuff. There was a cover up--but no one was depraved enough to stand
up and aggressively argue that felonies like this are just no big deal.

It really is disgusting.

wonder how well that works for defense lawyers representing people his old man is prosecuting. say, someone representing a 25 year old dark-skinned kid with a trunk full of marijuana.

go to mommy... back in the basement.

This man is a serious flight risk.

Face it, if he were a muslim, the republicans would be trying to waterboard him for this offense.

proof that it was just a "youthful indiscretion".

Where have we heard THAT before, kiddies??

Although I still wonder why ANYBODY would have spoken to those two,

Thought experiment. If this were a bunch of black teenage Acorn activists tampering with a city council's phone lines, they'd be in jail right now, on track for being tried as adults, with bond set in the $100000s. Major media outlets would be trumpeting the horrors of allowing such felons the possibility of committing additional cyber-terrorism in the name of their ghastly liberal activist overlords. "As a society we must be Tough on Crime!"

Instead, they're 20-something "kids" who just made an embarrassing mistake in judgment, and now live with their parents while awaiting a preliminary hearing from a sympathetic GOP-appointed judge. Media's just fine with that. "Just a bunch of unlucky young misguided pranksters."

rich white conservative activists = get out of jail free since their intentions were pure
poor racial minority liberal activists = lock them up to set an example

Tell me I'm wrong about this, please.

have we held anyone responsible? Look at oliver north, negroponte, all those from the Iran-Contra, BCCI--look at *, Cheney and their ilk--see anyone facing any accountability? If your a neo-con, it takes murdering a dozen people on the WH lawn in broad daylight just to get a trial. Of course, then being a neo-con, maybe they can cite "juvenile prank" as an excuse.

their child's 'poor judgment'

Bollocks on that excuse!