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Convicted! O'Keefe Pleads Guilty In Landrieu Phone-Tampering Case, Gets Three Years Probation Conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe and three compatriots today pleaded guilty to entering real property belonging to the United States under false pretenses for the January incident in which they entered Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office and claimed to be from the telephone company, the Times-Picayune reports. O'Keefe was sentenced to three years of probation, a fine of $1,500 and 100 hours of community service. The others -- Stan Dai, Joseph Basel, and Robert Flanagan -- got the same fine, two years of probation, and 75 hours of community service.
Actually it's completely related. It shows that yer boy is a clinical liar. But we all know how you admire that trait in people.
Do you mean the guy who doctored a tape of ACORN workers and made it appear like they were doing something illegal when they weren't getting arrested and CONVICTED of actually committing a crime isn't related to the thread? Interesting... Here's the scoreboard on this one. Convictions of ACORN members who supposedly committed a crime - 0 Convictions of Right Wing d-bags who fake tapes to make it look like ACORN members committed crimes - 1. Topics started by basso to lay blame or trash non-right wing politicians that ends up backfiring and making people and issues basso supports look bad instead - 654,126,981,847,489
A guerrilla film maker given probation and community service for impersonating someone to enter a government office? Seems like a risk of the job. (and kind of a crazy law -- IMO). And unrelated to ACORN (where impersonating someone was the whole gist of the piece). We had a previous thread challenging the ACORN tapes. But I don't see how this conviction should change anyone's opinion on either the ACORN tapes or the filmmaker's character.
The film maker presented the original tapes as if they showed something they didn't. This time the film maker impersonated someone not to make a film, but to wiretap the phone of a government official. I think both episodes say a lot about the character, and are are related in that the guy who's "journalistic skills and integrity" were heralded by people on talk radio and Fox News, is now shown to be a criminal on top of already being a fraud. If someone started a thread about a new Michael Moore film, I think it would be fair to examine his past work to judge whether the new documentary would be 100% factual of have some opinion thrown in. Likewise, this clown's past behavior should be a factor on his character.
I don't disagree with the rest of your post, but I do want to point out that I don't think he was there to wiretap a phone, and I don't believe that's what he was convicted of. That was just an assumption made by some people when he was arrested.
Shocker. [rquoter]ACORN employees tell FBI of deliberate election fraud, according to new documents By Matthew Vadum (AP Photo) The radical activist group ACORN “works” for the Democratic Party and deliberately promotes election fraud, ACORN employees told FBI investigators, according to an FBI document dump Wednesday. The documents obtained by Judicial Watch, a watchdog group, are FBI investigators’ reports related to the 2007 investigation and arrest of eight St. Louis, Mo., workers from ACORN’s Project Vote affiliate for violation of election laws. All eight employees involved in the scandal later pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud. Project Vote is ACORN’s voter registration arm. Project Vote continues to operate despite the reported dissolution of the national structure of ACORN. The handwritten reports by FBI agents show that ACORN employees reported numerous irregularities in the nonprofit group’s business practices. One employee told the FBI that ACORN headquarters is “wkg [working] for the Democratic Party.” According to one report, an ACORN employee said the purpose of “[f]raudulent cards” was “[t]o cause confusion on election day to keep polls open longer,” “[t]o allow people who can’t vote to vote,” and “[t]o allow to vote multiple times.” Another report quotes an employee saying, “Project Vote will pay them whether cards fake or not – whatever they had to do to get the cards was attitude.” Project Vote pays based on the number of cards and “that’s why they were so reckless,” the report says. A report quotes an employee saying, “I don’t like our system. I don’t think we should do voter registration.” The report also notes that employees were “[c]onstantly threatened” and that the staff were “instructed on what to say to FBI.” Another report indicates an employee told the investigator, that ACORN “[t]old employees not to talk to the FBI.” The FBI is “‘trying to intimidate you.’” “These documents show the need for a national criminal investigation by the Obama Justice Department into ACORN,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch. “Is Attorney General [Eric] Holder doing nothing because of Obama’s close connections to ACORN and Project Vote? The information in these new documents has national implications that cry out for further investigation,” Fitton said. President Obama’s ties to ACORN go back to the 1980s. “ACORN noticed him when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the Developing Communities Project,” according to Toni Foulkes, a former member of ACORN’s national board. From 1985 to 1988 Obama ran the Developing Communities Project from an office located in Chicago’s Holy Rosary Church. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/06/10/a...aud-according-to-new-documents/#ixzz0qTly7edS[/rquoter]
Nice job of convicting the innocent basso. ACORN Vindicated of Wrongdoing by the Congressional Watchdog Office On Monday, June 14, a preliminary probe by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) of ACORN has found no evidence the association or related organizations mishandled the $40 million in federal money they received in recent years. A review of grants by nine federal agencies found no problems with ACORN's grants.
Does this guy have any credibility left at all? I hope he enjoyed that ACORN fiasco; it's all downhill from here.
Unfortunately, credibility does not seem to be too big an issue for many folks on that side of the political fence.
