James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Launches Christmas Layoffs (news.yahoo.com)

One of Zappier’s lawsuits offers a host of claims about a debauched internal culture at Project Veritas. Among other things, Zappier alleges that a Project Veritas employee nearly died from a drug overdose during a party at a company apartment, that a Project Veritas fundraiser impregnated a subordinate and paid for her abortion, and that a rowdy party hosted by O’Keefe included one attendee defecating on the floor.

Zappier also made personal allegations against O’Keefe, claiming that he made secret recordings and opened pornography on his computer.


In another case, Project Veritas has asked for an injunction to stop another former employee turned porn performer from publishing videos criticizing the group and revealing details about its surveillance methods

In 2008, O’Keefe broke onto the scene with his first Planned Parenthood “sting.” The heavily edited video that was posted on YouTube made it appear that the staff there was ignoring the law and telling a thirteen-year-old not to report a rape. But the unedited version showed that the staff did in fact encourage her to report it.

· In 2009, the same type of editing led to misrepresentations about ACORN, a now-defunct voter registration group.

· In 2010 O’Keefe received a sentence of 3 years’ probation and 100 community service hours for entering a federal office on false pretenses and attempting to tamper with the phone of Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu.
Another heavily edited video – from 2011 – made it appear that NPR’s chief fundraiser, Ron Schiller, was telling the undercover video makers that organizations could buy favorable political coverage on the public radio station, when he wasn’t – at all.

· In 2017, Veritas infamously spent many hours wasting the time of Washington Post reporters by trying to plant false stories.

· In 2018, the group attempted to “expose” Donald Trump’s “deep state” enemies by showing that his national security advisor, H.R. McMaster, and the entire FBI was somehow really biased against Dirty Donald.

During Covid, Veritas routinely made anti-vaccine videos promoting completely false information.

· Last year O’Keefe’s residence was raided by the FBI after Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter, had her diary stolen. It had been given to Veritas by an outside source.

· Veritas has also repeatedly spread false information about supposed voter fraud.

This past September, Veritas was ordered to pay $120,000 to Democracy Partners and Strategic Consulting Group, after it sent one of its “undercovers” to infiltrate the group supporting Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.

A jury found that Veritas had engaged in “fraudulent misrepresentation.”
Fraudulent misrepresentation, of course, seems to be Veritas’s bread and butter.

A former employee, Patrice Thibodeau, who has also gone by the name “Jean Jacque the Cock” for his hopeful porn career (you can’t make this up) has gone on grudge match against his old employer, revealing Veritas’s methods and several of its agents.

Another former employee, Antoinetta Zappier, is suing PV and has accused it of being a sex-driven business where drugs run rampant.

If true, what a surprise THAT would be! Maybe someone should do an undercover sting on it.

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