People Tied to Project Veritas Scrutinized in Theft of Diary From Biden's Daughter

[Coventina]

Source: New York Times

The Justice Department searched two locations associated with the conservative group Project Veritas as part of an investigation into how a diary stolen from President Biden’s daughter, Ashley, came to be publicly disclosed a week and a half before the 2020 presidential election, according to people briefed on the matter.

Federal agents in New York conducted the court-ordered searches on Thursday — one in New York City and one in suburban Westchester County — at places linked to people who had worked with the group and its leader, James O’Keefe, according to two of the people briefed on the events. The investigation is being handled by F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors in Manhattan who work on public corruption matters, the people said.

Project Veritas did not publish Ms. Biden’s diary, but dozens of handwritten pages from it were posted on a right wing website on Oct. 24, 2020, at a time when President Donald J. Trump was seeking to undermine Mr. Biden’s credibility by portraying his son, Hunter, as engaging in corrupt business dealings. The posting was largely ignored by other conservative outlets and the mainstream media.

The website said it had obtained the diary from a whistle-blower who worked for a media organization that refused to publish a story about it before the election. It claimed to know where the actual diary was located and that the whistle-blower had an audio recording of Ms. Biden admitting it was hers.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/us/politics/project-veritas-investigation-ashley-biden-diary.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20211105&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=73531149&segment_id=73679&user_id=db9d459f127fb29b368adfd6055fb9af

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Hi ho hi ho, it's off to jail you go......

[JustAnotherGen]

1. They never go to jail though

Last week these assholes were pushing that after the election - Murphy was going to push a vaccine mandate . . .

Still hasn't happened. And they will go on their merry rapey on a boat way.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Scooped me!

That's basically what I wrote - O'Keefe should have been in jail a long time ago.

[rampartc]

12. when o'keefe bugged mary landrieu's phone he was put in jail

not in orleans parish where the crime was committed, but in white flight st bernard parish where he, an agult, was promptly released to his parents' custody. he got probation and light community service.

https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_99fb784b-b4b1-5571-935b-c325c57d3f6a.html

The four defendants who were arrested in January in Sen. Mary Landrieu's office in the Hale Boggs federal complex in New Orleans pleaded guilty Wednesday morning in federal court to entering real property belonging to the United States under false pretenses.

Magistrate Judge Daniel Knowles III sentenced Stan Dai, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan each to two years probation, a fine of $1,500 and 75 hours of community service during their first year of probation.

James O'Keefe, as leader of the group and famous for posing as a pimp in ACORN office videos, received three years of probation, a fine of $1,500 and 100 hours of community service.

Each of the defendants made a statement to the court. They said they did not intend to commit a crime They also apologized for the inconvenience they caused security workers at the federal building.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. He should have been jailed in 2009 after his earliest fiasco

ACORN Workers Cleared Of Illegality By Outside Probe

December 7, 2009 3:25 PM ET

Frank James

ACORN, the community organizing group which found itself embroiled in the latest of several controversies after some of its workers were recorded providing advice to a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute, was cleared of illegality in the matter by the former Massachusetts attorney general.

But Scott Harshbarger, the lawyer ACORN hired to conduct a review, criticized the organization for bad management which it said contributed to the ACORN's problems. A major problem, he said, was that the organization grew too quickly, neglecting training of its workers and other essentials.

(snip)

After the videos by a conservative videographer went viral on the Internet, Congress passed legislation to prevent ACORN from receiving federal funding. ACORN is suing the federal government on the grounds that the legislation is an unconstitutional "bill of attainder" since it targets for punishment an individual group. ACORN fired some of the workers caught on video.

ACORN welcomed the report as an important step in its redemption.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/12/acorn_workers_cleared_of_illeg.html/

And that should have been on the record as circumstances that precluded any leniency when he later attempted to bug Landrieu.

A list of his nonsense - https://www.vice.com/en/article/nedd9w/five-times-james-okeefe-embarrassed-himself-trying-to-out-liberal-bias

[rampartc]

16. absolutely

acorn, by the way, provided vital services in new orleans (and i'm sure elsewhere) and has not been (probably will never be) replaced.

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Exactly

They were mostly doing voter registration drives and of course the GOP doesn't want Democrats to vote.

[2naSalit]

3. One can only hope, these days. ...nt

[Ilsa]

4. These people are such assholes.

Nothing is off limits for them.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Dirty Tricks that would make Tricky Dicky beam with pride

[Lonestarblue]

6. O'Keefe is auch a despicable jerk.

Whatever happened to common decency? Republicans evidently have beaten it to death since I see no decency from them.

[rockfordfile]

7. He's a un-American pos

[rurallib]

10. Plus he is very bad at what he does

[NJCher]

20. you have no idea how bad

a long time ago, after one of his stunts, we in the unions were warned about possible infiltration. We agreed upon some standards, such as verifying to whom we were speaking.

In no time at all, we started receiving fishy calls. Most were from women, sadly. They were trying to get us to talk about a particular court decision.

Later, and I cannot remember how this happened, we learned one of the callers was a Project Veritas person. I think she may have been exposed on another of their scams and we recognized her from her pic on the web.

[maxsolomon]

8. The Ends Justify the Means.

The goal is permanent minority control and a cowed, quiescent majority.

PV will have to cross some other hypothetical line for O'Keefe to suffer any consequences other than continued, bottomless funding from asshole RW Billionaires.

[SergeStorms]

11. republicans see decency....

as weakness. They see empathy, sympathy, kindness, cooperation, and truth as weakness. Anything that stands in the way of - or even slightly subtracts from - their pursuit of power is considered weakness.

There's time for pats on the back and a few martinis after the struggle for power is won. Anything up to that point of complete victory is serious and single-minded.

They are a formidable and deadly serious opponent. Anyone thinking they're going to play fair and by the rules is living in a dream world. Either we fight the exact same way, or we concede victory. There is no "Mr. nice guy" in politics. Sorry to say, but that's the way it is.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. "You're a killer or a sucker." Fred Drumpf to Donald. Klansman Dad indoctrinated his spawn.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Stealing someone's diary and publishing it is NOT being a Whistleblower. It's being a thief. . . .nt

[louis-t]

13. They think it's 'journalism'.

[Leith]

14. And a lowlife

Really! What kind of creep steals a person's diary and publishes it?

James O'Kreep

[BlueIdaho]

19. They should all be hanging

From telephone polls in the city square.

[orangecrush]

21. Wasn't Joe's daughter under Secret Service protection?

Then how in hell did these scumbags get anywhere near her?