More Trouble for O'Keefe: Makers of ACORN 'Documentary' Sued in Federal Court

This is apparently a separate suit from the ACORN suit filed in September against Giles, Breitbart and O'Keefe which is reported here:

ACORN Sues O'Keefe, Giles and Breitbart.com

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/23/acorn_sues_okeefe_giles_and_br.html

Time for criminal charges in that case also. And in California.

This latest lawsuit was filed last Thursday:

Makers of ACORN 'Documentary' Sued in Federal Court

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/makers-acorn-documentary-sued-federal

Remember, James O'Keefe's partner on an abortion documentary stopped working with him. She said he edited the video in a misleading way to make it look like things happened that didn't. (Imagine that!)

Anyway, now he and his newest collaborator can explain to a federal judge why he broke Pennsylvania's wiretap laws:

The Philadelphia-office director of the anti-poverty group ACORN filed a civil lawsuit late Thursday in federal district court alleging that two conservative filmmakers violated state law when they recorded an interview with her without her consent and then disseminated it.

They also lied when they told the media that no one had thrown them out after they claimed to be bringing in underage prostitutes. The Philadelphia office produced a police report showing that they had called the police on them.

In the San Diego Office also, it wproven that ACORN worker, Juan Carlos Vera, had contacted the police about them. Even after the police reports were produced, Fox and the rightwing noise-machine continued the smear campaign.

The media is responsible for spreading this false story and for propping up O'Keefe and Giles whose tapes were edited so much that no respectable journalistic outlet should ever have aired them. Shame on CNN especially for being an accessory to a right-wing smear campaign.

And the Democrats in Congress who went along and violated the Constitution by voting to defund ACORN, should also be ashamed of themselves. ACORN recently won their case against Congress who were ordered by the judge to restore ACORN's funding.

After the scam began to unravel, the media dropped the story and the impression left was that ACORN workers had actually done something wrong.

It's sad that ACORN has to go to all this trouble to do the job the media should have done in the first place.

They should have known better than to take on ACORN. They are fighters and were not likely to take these smears lying down.

It was laughable that he was lauded as a 'rising star' in the Conservative media. He was never anything but a bumbling, lying fool easily exposed by bloggers such as Media Matters. That he fooled the MSM is probably no surprise.

Now, with federal criminal charges against him, as well as multiple lawsuits and possible criminal charges in other states like MD and CA, it looks like O'Keefe will be preoccupied for the foresee-able future. I hope his funders anticipated these expenditures.

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Looks like some of O'Keefes friends don't like this thread ~ :hi:

Unrec away, it won't help poor old Jimmy since his lying days on Fox are over. Now he has to tell the truth, not in one court, but it looks like many and when you lie in court, there are consequences!

Just made sure I added my rec to this :hi:

Senator's office, they would have no problem infiltrating a Democratic blog. You'd think with all the money the GOP has, they'd hire someone who is actually good at this undercover stuff. O'Keefe is just a clown. Definitely not worth the money, whoever is funding him.

All those Du'ers who salivated with hatred for ACORN and applauded O'Keefe, have been strangely silent the last two days. Not a peep from them. I was sure by at least today they would be out with full apologies. I guess not though.

Congress just went along with the smearing of ACORN by these goons. Congress and the MSM are particularly to blame as they just threw those doctored videos up on a screen and conducted no investigation to find out whether they had been manipulated or not.

Even after ACORN's recent victory against Ccongress in court and the months-long debunking of the tapes themselves, both the media and Congress have remained silent, allowing the smear to stick and to continue to be used by Fox and Co.

It's just sickening that Democrats especially, not only will not stand up against these thugs, but actually facilitate their nefarious political dirty tricks.

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/this suit is one thing, but the wire tapping thing is worse!! Two diff. trials can't have a convict serve their term concurrently either!

taping of ACORN workers. So, they may yet be charged crimally in PA, CA and MD. Couldn't happen to nicer people as far as I'm concerned.

And there's the other lawsuit also. I also think that Juan Carlos Vera, from the San Diego office, definitely has a lawsuit against them as he was illegally taped, the tape edited to try to make him look guilty of something, which they failed to do, and then he was fired. He HAD called the police, so he did nothing at all wrong.

He was caught by the FBI for attempting to tap Landreau's phones. Since it was on Fed. property, it's a FED Crime!

He's also in danger of being charged criminally by three states for recording people without their permission. Md, Ca, and it looks like PA.

And at least two more possible lawsuits, one by Juan Carlos Vera and another woman who did not know she was being taped, and punked them herself with her own 'outrageous story.

But don't forget, he was is a candidate for a 'pulitzer prize' in journalism, a 'rising star' in the Conservative media'. :eyes:

It's about goddamned time -- LONG overdue!

definitely against the law.

damn sure wouldn't be opening the door for anyone until I knew who it was, wouldn't be taking any rides from any strangers nor getting on any small airplanes. I'd say chances are he is a marked man and won't make it to his trial

Blackwell funds and trains many of these rightwing Republican operatives all over the country. But now there is the CIA connection, an organization that also seems to do some recruiting on college campuses.

It will be interesting to see who is lawyers are and who tries to defend him, or not, in the media.

But yes, I would be worried if I were in his position. I am not sure he's capable of worrying though. These kind of people are so pathological that cannot see that what they are doing is wrong. When he starts to lose the support of the freeper types who made a hero out of him, then maybe he will finally begin to understand.

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