Project Veritas News

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The biggest Project Veritas reveal ever, maybe; FDA watch; good news from the California case; bobsledder SADS; great news on Ukraine’s corruption; and another trans teacher self-destructs.

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Today, James O’Keefe decided to remove his belongings from Project Veritas headquarters. The Board and Management made numerous attempts in the last 14 days to have a conversation with James, but he ignored our outreach and decided to instead leak private information to others, either by doing so himself or by proxy.

As today is President’s Day, our office was closed. We had a Board meeting scheduled for tomorrow where James was invited, and there was also a Board meeting on Friday, February 10, where James was invited (but did not attend) to discuss the financial malfeasance that was discovered, which requires us to act in order to remain in compliance with the law.

There were two subjects that the Board wished to come to terms with James on: the company’s long-term sustainability based on staff retention and morale, and the company’s financial health — which has been a serious concern for several months now.

Although PV Leadership has not concluded looking into the full scale of financial issues over the years, a preliminary review at this time indicates that James has spent an excessive amount of donor funds in the last three years on personal luxuries. More is still being uncovered during the ongoing review at this time. Contrary to many reports from today, James was suspended indefinitely pending the resolution of a fulsome investigation and clarity which will need to be provided by a third party investigative audit report.

Here are a few examples of what has been uncovered so far by PV Leadership (this is far from an exhaustive list, it is merely a small representative sample):

-$14,000 on a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the guise of meeting with a donor

-$60,000 in losses by putting together dance events such as Project Veritas Experience

-Over $150,000 in Black Cars in the last 18 months

-Thousands of dollars spent on DJ and other equipment for personal use

-Hundreds of other acts of personal inurement

The Board wants to work things out with James, and has tried every route possible to remedy the issues at hand and begin to take the legally required corrective actions.

James also left us no choice but to suspend him in the last few weeks when he unilaterally fired the CFO, who can only be fired with Board approval. That is a violation of our non-profit’s bylaws. James went as far as to say that a Board member had approved this firing to others, but it was later discovered that it was not the case. That member did not approve the firing. The Board approved James’ suspension so it would have time to properly investigate these internal infractions.

The Board has a legal obligation to comply with state and federal law, and these matters are serious ones that cannot be ignored.

James claims that the Board did not allow him to send an apology letter to the staff, which is not true. The Board never told James he was not to speak with staff members, nor that he could not apologize to them.

But, more than anything, the Board cares about the donors of this organization, who decide to donate their hard-earned money to us because they believe in the mission. We could not allow for our donors to send us money and have it be misappropriated in such a way. We love our supporters, and we would never sit idly by as money is being used for matters that are not mission related.

Even with all of this public fallout, the Board still wants to speak with James. We did not fire him, nor do we want him to resign. We would like to continue conversations with James to resolve internal matters rather than litigate them publicly.

Project Veritas will continue to be transparent with the public as more information can be released over time. The fight for truth will never stop.

 

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So, what exactly counts as “excessive” when it comes to donor funds? The organization listed:

-$14,000 on a charter flight to meet someone to fix his boat under the guise of meeting with a donor
-$60,000 in losses by putting together dance events such as Project Veritas Experience
-Over $150,000 in Black Cars in the last 18 months
-Thousands of dollars spent on DJ and other equipment for personal use
-Hundreds of other acts of personal inurement

The board also insisted that O’Keefe left them “no choice” but to suspend him “when he unilaterally fired the CFO, who can only be fired with Board approval,” which constitutes “a violation of our non-profit’s bylaws.”

On the website, the board insisted that it “cares about the donors of this organization” and that they could not “allow for our donors to send us money and have it be misappropriated in such a way.”

Looking at the board’s list of misappropriation grievances, it seems to me that there is only one item that seems problematic: The alleged $14,000 for a charter flight. If O’Keefe did use donor funds to meet with someone to fix his boat, that’s an issue. But We have not yet heard his side of the story, and the fact that the board clearly used underhanded methods to oust him makes it hard to trust their contentions.

However, the other expenses do not seem to be as big a deal as the board would have us believe. Indeed, conservative influencer Mike Cernovich addressed this part perfectly in a series of tweets:

Project Veritas Fires Back at James O’Keefe

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Project Veritas Social Media Following in Free Fall After James O'Keefe's Ousting​

As first pointed out to me by YouTuber SciFi4Me, SocialBlade.com shows Project Veritas is experiencing steep declines on mainstream social media websites.

On YouTube, when O’Keefe’s story hit the news cycle on Monday, Project Veritas’s channel lost 40,000 subscribers. As of this writing on Tuesday, the channel has lost 20,000 subscribers with more expected to go before the day is up.

On Instagram, Project Veritas experienced a drop of 56,198 followers on Monday. The numbers for Tuesday are still pending.

On Twitter, the number gets even bigger as on Monday, Project Veritas experienced a whopping loss of 191,664 followers. As of this writing on Tuesday, it’s lost an additional 73,656.

To be sure, Project Veritas had a very deep following before it all began and it’s likely that it will still have quite a few followers when the dust clears, but this kind of mass unfollowing is something no company wants to witness.

How Project Veritas plans to stop the bleeding is still yet to be seen, if the organization has a plan at all, but it’s unlikely that it will ever be as popular as it was before.

 

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Proj. Veritas IS James O'Keefe

 

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The Project Veritas Board Is Feeling the Pain After Ousting Founder James O'Keefe​

The board says they believe O’Keefe misspent company funds, including some on himself, and wanted him gone until a “two-dimensional” audit was done. For fiduciaries of a 501c3 organization, that can be a big deal with the IRS.

O’Keefe was also criticized for the harsh way he treats employees.

One meme on social media right now asks an interesting question. It goes something like this, So, a room full of undercover journalists who use video to out bad guys didn’t get one video of O’Keefe dressing down employees?

We’re not saying it didn’t happen, but it is interesting.

O’Keefe’s — temporary? — ouster might end up being more interesting than some of the stories his organization exposed.

 

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“I Stand with James O’Keefe” – Exclusive: 14 Courageous Project Veritas Whistleblowers Release POWERFUL VIDEO and LETTER in Support of James O’Keefe – MUST SEE​

14 former Project Veritas whistleblowers and insiders cut a video that was released minutes ago in support of James O’Keefe.

James O’Keefe was removed from the Project Veritas Board, a company he founded and led for over a decade earlier this week.

This video is a collection of courageous Americans who step out of the shadows to show their support for James O’Keefe.

Warning: This is a very moving video!

 

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JUST IN: Project Veritas Releases Video Saying That They Want James O’Keefe Back, After Desperate Plea For Donors Not to Jump Ship​

Project Veritas has released a video saying they want James O’Keefe back after losing hundreds of thousands of followers and begging donors not to abandon them.​

The video came on the same day that a dozen Project Veritas whistleblowers published a video and penned a letter to the organization’s board of directors saying they stand with the ousted founder.

“We, the staff at Project Veritas, are at a crossroads,” the video begins. “High-level disputes between our leader and founder, James O’Keefe, and the volunteer Board of Directors who are responsible for oversight of the nonprofit have resulted in James no longer being here.”

 

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I remember when they were blowing the lid on the Obama involved Project Acorn in Chicago.

 

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Well, thanks to Project Veritas reporters, we are now past that debate.

Project Veritas’ investigative reporters secretly taped David Casamento, the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction at East Meadow Schools in Nassau County, New York. Thinking he was safe, and with a drink or two under his oversized belt, the chatty Superintendent loquaciously explained that the only way to get around parents is to secretly slip LGBT, DEI and CRT material into kids’ educations materials a little at a time, without anyone noticing:

“Here’s the thing with DEI work — if you push too hard doing the work and you get this pushback, it will be decades before you can do the work again. So, it needs to be incremental. Every district [in Nassau County] is doing it [DEI] covertly.”

“Educator” Casamento admitted several other reprehensible things that all right-thinking people should shun him for, such as that “politics is basically my job now,” and that he is “political in every conversation [he] has.” He also bizarrely claimed that his sexuality was important to his ability to “connect with” children, whatever THAT means. Maybe worst of all, Casemento explained he helped create and enforce a “rubric” that guarantees conservative teachers and administrators can never be employed in the district.

☕️ SOMETHING ISLAND ☙ Thursday, March 9, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Project Veritas drops a new éxpose and it's a pretty good one; DeSantis trolls groomer media; Redfield tells on Fauci; and Florida backpedals on a medical freedom bill.

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While researching the OMG story for this morning’s report, I happened to review the Project Veritas timeline, and my instinctive lawyer alarm system suddenly went off as I noticed something new.

To set the stage, at this point I’ve spoken in depth to at least four insiders to the PV debacle (who I can’t name, for obvious reasons) and several closely-related folks on the outside. None of them have any direct evidence of Pfizer’s involvement in Project Veritas’ collapse, but everyone is naturally suspicious, given the timing of the collapse immediately following the blockbuster exposé.

But as I was reviewing Project Veritas’ Twitter timeline I discovered one of my favorite kinds of telltales — the absence of evidence. Shortly after putting O’Keefe on involuntary leave, Project Veritas quickly STOPPED REPORTING ON THE PFIZER STORY.

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But an only week later on February 8th, O’Keefe was placed on leave (he finally left PV on February 20th). From February 8th on, ZERO new Pfizer videos were released, and no new vans appeared outside Pfizer HQ or anywhere else. Instead, PV only reported an occasional “reaction” news piece every few days , then on March 9th, posted its final Pfizer tweet, which included a re-published earlier video and promised “we are not done with Pfizer.”

“We are not done with Pfizer” was a signal; the reverse-opposite, a complete lie, a brief swan song. They WERE done with Pfizer. Nothing of substance about Pfizer has appeared on Project Veritas’ timeline since March 9th, except for a couple calls for new whistleblowers, which is supposed to suggest that PV has completely run out of material and has nothing more to say.

So much for “we’re not done with Pfizer.”

Instead, on March 2nd, PV shifted to its brand-new exposé of Long Island schools and their covert gender program. Since then, it has run wall-to-wall Long Island exposé videos and updates nearly every single day, on most days Tweeting ten or more times a day. PV’s Long Island story coverage is a flood compared to its non-existent Pfizer coverage.

I don’t believe for a second that PV ran out of Pfizer material, nor have they explicitly claimed that. That’s not how the company has ever worked. They always trickle the news out a little at a time and stretch out the story. They always take advantage of their target’s responses, delighting in contradicting the target’s public statements with more material.

But not this time. Not with Pfizer.

This time, PV deviated from the normal script, and quickly wrapped the biggest story in PV history just a few weeks from its inception, and completely moved on.

Pfizer should be pretty happy.

It’s even more incongruous given that PV claims that James O’Keefe had nothing to do with the Pfizer story and merely inserted himself at the end to take all the credit. If that’s true, then all the Pfizer assets are still at PV. Why are they so silent?

☕️ ETHICS ☙ Thursday, March 16, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Happy Coronaversary! O'Keefe's OMG media group; evidence Pfizer meddled at Project Veritas; pilot heart attack epidemic; banking crisis news; my legal analysis of Trump's complaint vs DeSantis.

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Project Veritas — sans genius founder James O’Keefe — continued its non-pharma reveal on school indoctrination last week, with two new hidden-camera interviews, one of a so-called “reverend” who appears to actually be an in-school “reverend of grooming,” and then separately, of assistant elementary school principal Jeremy Boland, who explained in chilling detail exactly the workings of early education indoctrination.

My first thought was the clip must have been AI-generated, a deep fake, because it revealed what we have been told over and over is a raging conspiracy theory: that kids are being systematically groomed by predatory teachers for their own dark political purposes.

Here’s Boland:






In case you’re wondering: yes, assistant principal Boland described a variety of absolutely illegal activities that would open the school up to potentially huge damages for discriminatory hiring, such as when he admitted that he refuses to hire Catholics or older people as teachers because they are too conservative.

It is fascinating that these crypto-activists posing as school administrators don’t seem to care at all about breaking the law. After all, OUR TAX DOLLARS would have to pay any damage award while handlers quickly shuffle the administrator to a new school someplace far away. True to form, after the PV video surfaced, Boland immediately resigned before he could get investigated and fired, which will preserve his resumé so that he can remain useful to the network in another school.




We really need to expose whoever is handling and training all these administrators. I don’t believe for one second this is any kind of organic movement.

The Greenwich Times article (headlined above) said five different investigations have already been opened:

Five entities — the district, the town, the Office of the Attorney General, the state Department of Education and the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities — opened investigations into possible discriminatory hiring practices in Greenwich schools prompted by the video from Project Veritas, which has been criticized for using hidden cameras and hidden identities to discredit Democrats, progressive groups and mainstream media.

☕️ SHAFTED ☙ Tuesday, March 28, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

Russia's request for NordStream probe opposed by U.S.; CDC committee starts jab review; hidden video exposes early education indoctrination; DeSantis signs school choice law; and more.

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Yesterday, Project Veritas filed suit in the Southern District of New York against James O’Keefe (and two other former employees). I took a look at the complaint. It’s nonsense.

First, whoever is running PV at this point claimed in the complaint that O’Keefe breached his employment agreement when he started OMG. They claim he was still working at Project Veritas, based on the ridiculous argument that the board’s refused to terminate O’Keefe’s employment even after he resigned, but kept him on “unpaid leave.”

Hint: if you’re not paying someone, they don’t work for you. It’s sort of basic.

PV said they kept James on staff, unpaid, “just in case” there was a way to settle their differences. Then they fired him. But during the middle, they claim James shouldn’t have started a new company yet.

Next, they claimed O’Keefe breached a non-disparagement provision by “falsely insinuating that” Pfizer was involved in his termination. Um. “Insinuating” sounds pretty weak, first of all, to support a six-figure damages claim for breaching a non-disparagement clause. Second, I bet discovery on this issue is going to be fun.

Next, they claimed O’Keefe breached a confidentiality agreement by taking some lists of unnamed donors and some unidentified, pending PV story material, and claimed that he was activity soliciting some other unnamed Project Veritas donors. They claimed O’Keefe improperly solicited unidentified PV employees when he said in a public video message, “I will need a bunch of people around me, and I’ll make sure, I’ll make sure you know how to find me.”

That generalized statement might evidence some future intent to solicit employees, but it cannot possibly uphold a claim of solicitation by itself.

As it happens, this case is squarely in my commercial litigation wheelhouse. I regularly practice “restrictive covenants” law, and have several cases going right now, much more complicated than this goofy lawsuit. So I can offer an informed opinion.

This lawsuit is bull puckey. I’d use stronger language but this is a family blog.

In other words, it’s thin. Super thin. So thin, there’s almost nothing there. For instance, although they claimed O’Keefe was soliciting PV donors, they never named a single donor he’s supposedly solicited and — more importantly — named any donor that stopped donating to PV because O’Keefe supposedly solicited them. Nor does the complaint identify ANY damages. It only claims entitlement to a $100,000 liquidated damages provision.

I haven’t looked into NY law, but in Florida, liquidated damages are disfavored and a suing party must still show the liquidated damages are based on something real, and aren’t just a made up number, which is called a penalty. Penalties are unenforceable.

Shame on the lawyers who filed this trash heap of a complaint.

You guys know that I’ve given Project Veritas the benefit of the doubt and have supported them post-breakup. I’ve run their stories in C&C. But this is a bridge too far for me. James may not be able to disparage them but I can. (Legal Note: I would never defame PV. But publishing truthful information is not defamatory. And, since the controversial organization is a public figure, publishing reasonable speculations should also not be defamatory.)

If the lawsuit isn’t dismissed, I hope James drives them insane with discovery.

☕️ TWO KARENS ☙ Saturday, June 3, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠

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Project Veritas Seeks Injunction Against James O’Keefe and O’Keefe Media Group In Newly-Filed Lawsuit​

Earlier today Project Veritas sued O’Keefe seeking to enforce restrictive covenants in O’Keefe’s employment agreement, effectively seeking to shut down O’Keefe’s new media operation.

From the opening paragaraph of the Complaint (full embed at bottom of this post)

Being known as the founder of an organization does not entitle that person to run amok and put his own interests ahead of that organization. Defendant James O’Keefe (“O’Keefe”) failed in his duties to Plaintiff, Project Veritas, causing it serious and significant damage. O’Keefe must be held accountable, as must the organization O’Keefe created, Defendant Transparency 1, LLC d/b/a O’Keefe Media Group (“OMG”) for suborning his violations. Similarly, two individuals formerly affiliated with Plaintiffs, Defendants RC Maxwell (“Maxwell”) and Anthony Iatropoulos (“Iatropoulos”) breached their own contracts with Plaintiffs for the benefit of OMG. Plaintiffs Project Veritas and Project Veritas Action Fund (together “Project Veritas” or “Plaintiffs”) by their attorneys, allege as follows:

The Complaint goes on to allege that O’Keefe breached, among other things, his contractual duties to devote his full time and efforts to Project Veritas, to keep information confidential, not to disparage Project Veritas, not to solicit employees and donors, and not to compete.

There also is alleged misconduct on the job, allegations that were leaked and/or asserted previously:

30. For instance, Project Veritas’s Board of Directors (“Board”) heard allegations that O’Keefe routinely behaved unprofessionally during team meetings, including by screaming at coworkers and belittling them and their contributions to Project Veritas.

31. O’Keefe was alleged to have particularly targeted female employees with mean spirited comments about their lack of contributions to the companies and inappropriate comments about personal situations like pregnancies.

Mean Spirited .... FFS

32. Employees alleged that O’Keefe had strained relationships with several donors because he was routinely late for meetings and rude at VIP events designed to give donors extra access to O’Keefe.
33. O’Keefe also routinely was late for work meetings or canceled them at the last minute. According to the allegations, O’Keefe exhibited a general lack of respect for employees and his team.
34. Other employees alleged that they personally had observed obscene messages between O’Keefe and various women on social media applications when accessing O’Keefe’s phone for work-related matters.
35. The Board also learned of O’Keefe’s alleged financial misconduct.
36. Multiple employees alleged that O’Keefe used Project Veritas employees to run personal errands for him. These errands included picking up O’Keefe’s laundry, cleaning his boat, repairing his boat, and doing other similar errands for O’Keefe.
37. O’Keefe also allegedly used his Project Veritas credit card for some personal expenses, and directed Project Veritas funds to be used for lavish expenses and, in some instances, his personal benefit:

a. Directing the organization to pay more than $10,000 for a helicopter flight from New York to Maine without a clear benefit to Project Veritas;
b. Directing the organization to pay for first-class air travel for O’Keefe even where the flight did not satisfy the organization’s policy for approving firstclass flights;
c. Using his Project Veritas credit card for expensive hotel rooms and suites at luxury hotels without clear business purpose, when other employees on the same trips were required to stay in budget accommodations;
d. Directing the organization to pay for expenses associated with large organizational awareness events like the Project Veritas Experience, without engaging in any analysis to help the organization understand the potential return on investment or capitalize on the connections made through these events; and
e. Causing the organization to pay for his regular use of private car services (“black cars”), even to go relatively short distances in and around Manhattan and then wait outside of restaurants for hours, at a total expense of more than $150,000 over the past 18 months.

what a bunching of whining ... these actions are part of the basis for a lawsuit





oh the boss was mean to me

 

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It's an epidemic.

 

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oh the boss was mean to me

It's an epidemic.

I can truthfully say that's never worked for me.