O’Keefe Partner Pays $50K to Fired ACORN Worker
Republican activist Hannah Giles agreed to pay $50,000 to former San Diego ACORN worker Juan Carlos Vera as a part of a legal settlement struck last summer in response to an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed against her and her former partner James O’Keefe, Vera’s attorney Eugene Iredale has confirmed to the BRAD BLOG.
Last week, in a scoop by the website Wonkette, it was disclosed that O’Keefe, a federal criminal, agreed to pay $100,000 in his own legal settlement with the same former ACORN employee, after heading up the scheme to secretly videotape him in violation of California’s Invasion of Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 632).
O’Keefe and Giles’ illicit taping of Vera was carried out as part of the deceptively edited series of hit videos released by the pair in 2009. The tapes were published, and paid for, by the late Andrew Breitbart. Vera had been portrayed in the misleading video as having been willing to help the pair smuggle underage prostitutes into the United States across the Mexican border. In fact, Vera had played along with the duo’s proposed scheme only long enough to collect information from O’Keefe and Giles (and take their photographs), before contacting law enforcement immediately after the secretly videotaped meeting.
Giles played the role of a prostitute in the ACORN “pimp” hoax videos. O’Keefe played her boyfriend. O’Keefe did not play the part of a “pimp,” as he had knowingly misrepresented in both the videos and to the public, and as repeatedly misreported by the bulk of the mainstream media at the time, and even still today.