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Conservative propagandist James O\u2019Keefe<\/a>, best known for his enormously doctored videos fraudulently smearing the community organization ACORN as criminally assisting prostitution, has settled a lawsuit with one of the ACORN workers he smeared in the videos, agreeing to pay $100,000 in the settlement.<\/p>\n

According to NJ.com, the video in question was alleged to have Juan Carlos Vera, who worked in the National City, Calif., office of ACORN, agree to help O’Keefe smuggle underage girls into the U.S. from Mexico to act as prostitutes. Although this was untrue and Vera had reported the exchange with O\u2019Keefe and his accomplice Hannah Giles to the police immediately afterwards \u2013 a fact omitted by O\u2019Keefe at the time \u2013 Vera was still fired by the organization. The lawsuit however, came about due to a California<\/st1:state> state law that bans secretly recording someone’s voice and image.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Keefe still denies wrongdoing, a statement on his website referring to the payout as a \u201cnuisance settlement\u201d. \u201cThere comes a time when the cost to defend yourself against meritless accusations becomes so burdensome financially and personally, it is simply too great,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe settlement admits no liability and there is no benefit from extending this ridiculous lawsuit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O’Keefe at Robert A. Taft Club forum. White supremacist Jared Taylor<\/a> of American Renaissance is in the background.<\/span><\/caption>\n
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O’Keefe, a New Jersey<\/st1:state> native and Rutgers<\/st1:place> graduate, is known for his hidden-camera sting videos in which he gets his targets to say something damning or agree to an illegal act. Previous targets have included the NJEA, National Public Radio, ACORN, and other groups associated with the political left. However he has received criticism because the videos appeared to be doctored in a unfavorable way. Much of O\u2019Keefe\u2019s work would have a racist bent to them, which many of his supporters would deny, however a 2006 photograph of O\u2019Keefe participating in a white supremacist forum hosted by the white nationalist Robert A. Taft Club<\/a> brought those concerns even moreso in the spotlight. O\u2019Keefe himself never spoke on that particular forum and his participation in it save for a small statement through surrogates, but as of 2011, he was still working with the Taft Club membership speaking at Providence C<\/st1:placename>ollege<\/st1:placetype> in Rhode Island<\/st1:state> at the invitation of Youth for Western Civilization, which was founded by Taft Club members.<\/p>\n

Conservatives for a time celebrated O\u2019Keefe as a \u201ccitizen journalist\u201d and a hero, but he quickly fell out of favor soon after his 2010 arrest in a federal building in Louisiana, where he had gone to execute one of his video stings against U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, by posing as a telephone repairman to investigate claims that Landrieu\u2019s staff ignored constituent calls. But O\u2019Keefe and three associates were arrested instead. Originally charged with a felony, he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of entering federal property under false pretenses and eventually was sentenced to three years\u2019 probation, 100 hours of community service and a $1,500 fine.<\/p>\n

Since then, O\u2019Keefe continued to make missteps, once attempting to lure then-CNN Correspondent Abbie Bordreau onto a boat filled with sex toys and hidden cameras for some contrived prank where the boat to set sail with O\u2019Keefe and Boudreau aboard, so that the reporter would be unable to escape, at which point O\u2019Keefe would try to \u201cseduce\u201d her. In a more recent stunt, O\u2019Keefe might have run afoul of election laws in New Hampshire when he and accomplices, in what was being touted by him as showing proof of the need for voter ID laws, reportedly procured ballots under false names.<\/p>\n

According to Vera\u2019s attorney, O\u2019Keefe and his attorneys wanted to keep the conditions of the settlement private, but were refused. Hannah Giles settled last summer with Vera, the conditions of that settlement undisclosed. In May, a deposition revealed that O\u2019Keefe made $65,000 and Giles made $60,000 through the late Andrew Breitbart\u2019s conservative media ventures. Both O\u2019Keefe and Giles were given immunity from criminal prosecution when they agreed to hand over the unedited versions of the California<\/st1:place> videos, according to reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}