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just perceptible through a tabloidy lens
Eyuch. Agreed.
As much as I might be " that guy", this cannot stand.
just perceptible through a tabloidy lens
Deep state coming for James O'Keefe, Project Veritas may oust him for mismanagement.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-...-internal-memoThe memo’s authors also raised concerns about O’Keefe’s use of Project Veritas money to promote his own theatrical ambitions. Project Veritas is best known for its undercover stings against Democratic groups and other Republican targets. But O’Keefe, who performed in high-school musicals, has added a series of musical productions to the group’s repertoire, including an elaborate “Project Veritas” experience that involves O’Keefe dancing while wearing a bulletproof vest.
In December, Project Veritas acknowledged improperly giving O’Keefe $20,500 in “excess benefits” to pay for Project Veritas staff to accompany him to Virginia as he performed a lead role in a production of the musical Oklahoma!.
O'Keefe resigns without severance pay
Westchester County is investigating O'Keefe for using his non-profit as a personal piggy bank.
https://www.thenation.com/article/so...oject-veritas/Following O’Keefe’s attempt to unilaterally fire Veritas Chief Financial Officer Tom O’Hara, in contravention of the 501(c)3’s bylaws, and O’Keefe’s own surprise resignation this past February, the Veritas board published a preliminary tally of its former leader’s financial misdeeds.
Pending a “third party investigative audit,” the board accused O’Keefe of spending “$14,000 on a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the guise of meeting with a donor,” blowing over $150,000 on high-end limo services, and taking thousands of dollars more for personal DJ equipment. O’Keefe, they said, also requisitioned $60,000 for “dance events,” including the production of a semi-autobiographical pop music celebration of his life in muckraking: the Project Veritas Experience. Such self-indulgent expenditures would be what’s known within the Internal Revenue Code for tax-exempt 501(c)3s as “inurement.”
It’s worth noting that, by the end of the Trump years, Veritas’s cash flow offered ample opportunity for this kind of personal dipping: The group brought in over $22 million in 2020, an exponential swelling in revenue compared to the $396,450 in donations reported in its first year as a nonprofit. And O’Keefe was very much along for the ride, with his reported salary, $56,000 in 2012, growing ultimately to $430,920 by the time of his September 2022 at-will employment agreement.
In private, however, past and present Veritas executives have groused to us for much longer about O’Keefe’s dubiously charitable expenditures outside that reported compensation, including the construction of a recording studio for his high school music buddy Anthony Dini and tens of thousands of dollars in “investigating reporting” and “consulting” fees paid to O’Keefe’s pass-thru NJ S-corp, Veritas Inc.
O'Keefe was a grifter from start to finish
His legacy is real, though. His initial journalistic hoaxes (Acorn and Shirley Sherrod) paid off politically, a lesson right wingers have taken very much to heart.
Since then, Veritas has been pretty much a complete flop.
Project Veritas CEO resigns, bends the knee to deep state prosecutors.
Spycraft
https://www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...ing-rcna163821one being recorded on video — a police body camera — as he threatened officers with the Dearborn Police Department.
“It’s amazing these f--kers hate America so much,” Spadone said during the 81-minute encounter.
"Weak-ass motherfu--ers," he added. "If they took their vest off and their badges, they’d get knocked the f--k out. Every one of you would get knocked the f--k out. Choked the f--k out.”
He repeated the threat. Then he hurled a phobic slur: “Bunch of weak-ass f---ing f-----s.”
The incident took place at the Henry Hotel. Soon after the police officers arrived, they were met by a member of the hotel’s staff who explained why they wanted to evict the group.
“They were drinking a lot. At least half of them were very intoxicated,” the staffer told the officers, according to the video. “They were dropping profanities left and right, and were super loud.”
got scared after a lady asked him for his press credentials
https://www.ms.now/news/minneapolis-...rism-narrative
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