UPDATE: O’Keefe promises more undercover investigations. Full update after the jump.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Four conservative activists accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of entering federal property under false pretenses. The most prominent activist, James O’Keefe, was sentenced to three years probation, 100 hours of community service and fined a $1,500 fine. The 25-year-old is known for wearing a pimp costume in a video that embarrassed ACORN.
Magistrate Daniel Knowles III sentenced the three others to two years probation, 75 hours of community service and fined them $1,500.
The FBI has said O’Keefe used his cell phone to try to capture video of two men who posed as telephone repairmen and asked to see the phones. O’Keefe spokesman Denis Calabrese disputed an earlier allegation that a fourth suspect waited in a car with a listening device, which was not mentioned in court records.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Conservative activist James O’Keefe has told a judge he regretted his attempt to surreptitiously film Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office, but said after the hearing he planned more undercover investigations…
The 25-year-old is also known for wearing a pimp costume in a video that embarrassed ACORN. He said he will release the results of another investigation very soon.
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Entering Federal property under false pretenses? Does that mean if Congress Persons swear to uphold the Constitution and fail to do so, they are guilty also???
Sauce Goose?
Sauce Gander!!!
So, basically, O'Keefe was found guilty of the same level of crime Bertha Lewis was arrested for a couple of days ago.
And David Shuster was banned from Twitter over it. LMAO!
Yeah, right? Exactly what I was thinking, too.
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Obama was elected to office pretending to want to govern from the center. Doesn't that count as false pretenses?
Is it a false pretense if no one believed it?
We didn't sure, but you know there were a lot of so called independents who did.
Those people are too dumb for words. How on earth did they think a man who spent his entire life surrounded by Leftists would govern from the center?
That's the problem. They get their news from CNN and MSNBC. They just didn't know because it wasn't covered in the MSM. I think they are starting to wake up though.
Anyone else catch this line?
"The 25-year-old is known for wearing a pimp costume in a video that embarrassed ACORN"
That's some solid journamalism AP!
I recommend that James Okeefe be allowed to perform his public service under the observation of Buddy Caldwell, Attorney General of Louisiana. Mr. Okeefe is a fine representative of his generation and would prove a very competent and enthusiastic assistant and participant in the AG's indictments and prosecutions of ACORN and its myriad entities. How about it Mr. Caldwell? May this disproportionate punishment become a win-win outcome for Louisiana and Okeefe! And thank you James Okeefe for your service to our country in ferreting out the corruption and crimes of ACORN and subsidiaries.
I can't wait to see what he does next. Does he have a legal defense fund I can donate to?
On his twitter account, O'Keefe said a new video will be coming out TOMORROW.
Can't wait.
Got to give it to him, little sumbitch has some nads on him!
Get them Mr. O'Keefe. You have them scared to death. That's why they have their claws out (hisssssss).
Now is the time to attack. We've seen the whites of their eyes.
You get the facts. Mr. B. publishes them on line, and then we spread them around the internet.
Impeachment is for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Excellent, I hadn't even thought of it that way!
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Obama answers that himself on in of his autobiographies. And really WTF? Who writes two autobiographies before they're 50?
Obama said he was a blank slate on which people projected their own thoughts. That's why he's so vague.
A lot of people who voted for him were actually voting for what they wanted, not what he was. That doesn't make them necessarily bad, though it does indicate gullibility.
As they begin to realize what they've done, our job is not to ridicule them, but to educate them with facts, logic and reason.
"I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education." – Thomas Jefferson
Guilty of a misdemeanor. This didn't quite turn out to be the Crime of the Century that the liberal media had hoped it would be. I'm sure there will be a flood of mea culpas on MSNBC tonight.
I saw another AP report that said O'Keefe "breached security" at the Senator's office. Didn't he just walk right in the front door?
Normally, I'd agree; but Louisiana needs every set of hands on deck to help with the oil cleanup. O'Keefe can put on some galoshes and help fill sandbags for berms and clean up oily birdies.
And while he's doing that, he can investigate the fed. govt. idiots standing around out there doing nothing.
Any good investigative journalist is going to run afoul of authorities once in a while.
I bet the newly-minted J-school grads are begging to work for Breitbart–probably one of the few companies left that employs real journalists!
Few would argue that the premise of the exercise was poorly planned. It helps to remember that he is still learning and not beaten down by he system. The "reduced" charges were an accommodation for one of the other fellows whose father is a prominent federal attorney in Louisiana. If it had been Okeefe, operating alone, he'd likely have been sent to Angola for the crime of having impure thoughts.
I'm not sure there was any accommodation, as the facts of the case don't rise to any more serious charges than the misdemeanor.
Moving the complaint from a US District Court to a Magistrate may be considered an accommodation, at least by the defendants. I think we probably agree that there weren't any substantive facts to the case. My guess is that the fellows could have gotten access to Landrieu's office by conventional means instead of using a false pretense. The pretense scarcely presents an issue but the intent to deceive might be construed otherwise. These boys were not Cuban burglars, and Landrieu's office is not the Watergate.
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