Of the three people involved in a video James O'Keefe shot at an ACORN office in San Diego, one, Juan Carlos Vera, had his reputation ruined. One, O'Keefe, agreed to pay Vera $100,000 as a result. Now we learn that this was only after the third — Hannah Giles — paid $50,000 last summer.
The lesson of James O'Keefe's latest legal problem might be: it can be far more expensive to consult a lawyer after the fact than before. Had O'Keefe checked California law, he might have avoided a $100,000 bill for videotaping at an ACORN office near San Diego.
There's no publicity in the follow-up. Conservative activist James O'Keefe earned praise for secretly taping Virginia Rep. Jim Moran's son Patrick seemingly giving advice on how to commit voter fraud in October, but three months later law enforcement has closed their investigation because, they say, O'Keefe wouldn't cooperate.
On Wednesday afternoon, James O'Keefe dropped his latest YouTube bomb and unlike his recent videos, it actually caused a stir.
James O'Keefe III is feeling some righteous indignation over... well, it's not clear what, exactly. The chief complaint seems to be that there is hidden camera footage in the news, and it isn't his.
Apparently unsatisfied with just the attention of New Hampshire's attorney general for his January voter-fraud stunt, James O'Keefe and Project Veritas are now taunting the feds, releasing a video Monday of an operative asking for, and getting offered, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's ballot.
Conservative video provocateur James O'Keefe filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Keith Olbermann, his Countdown guest host David Shuster, and their employer Current TV, for saying he'd been convicted of a felony and accused of rape.
A mic-wielding James O'Keefe apparently tried to ambush interview Columbia journalism dean Sree Sreenivasan, who promptly seemed to turn the tables on the conservative prankster, asking him questions about his choice of costumes for his stunts.
James O'Keefe's lastest undercover investigation has blown the lid off the rampant liberalism at New York University: journalism professors Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen have been outed as opinionated men.
Conservative activist James O'Keefe, spotted down by the barricades
The New York Times Magazine profiles the 27-year-old moviemaker and media hater
A certain conservative activist is never gonna give you up
After bringing down the CEO of NPR, what do you do for a follow-up act?
Executives were dubious about a fake Muslim organization's offer to donate $5 million
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