Thursday, January 28, 2010

Activist From ACORN Scandal Arrested

James O'Keefe has been indicted on wiretapping charges, due to the ACORN scandal that exposed the Obama affiliated group and their misuse of federal funds. O'Keefe now stands accused of wiretapping the Senate office of Mary Landrieu in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Activist accused of tampering with US senator's phone

Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:12pm EST - HOUSTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department charged four men on Tuesday with tampering with phones in the New Orleans office of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, one of them a conservative filmmaker who last year provoked a scandal involving a liberal grass-roots group.

The FBI said among those arrested on Monday was James O'Keefe, who, posing as a pimp and accompanied by a woman pretending to be a prostitute, filmed workers with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, giving advice on how to flout housing laws.

The film attracted a big audience after being posted on YouTube...

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