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</div><div>ac<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/liberal-groups-fear-james-okeefe-election-sting" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s; outline: 0px;">cording</a> to The Daily Beast, voting rights groups in North Carolina were approached by a strange benefactor calling himself "James Fortune" — and his behavior aroused suspicions that he might be part of a Republican sting operation to discredit laws expanding access to the vote.</div>"Fortune, who claimed to be the operator of a progressive-minded North Carolina gym called 'Equality Gym,' donated a few thousand dollars to the groups. Then he started asking whether they could illegally register undocumented immigrants to vote," reported Will Sommer. "As the groups became suspicious, Fortune vanished — leaving behind only a blurry picture of himself, no proof that his gym actually existed, and suspicions that he was using an alias."Indeed, the only evidence that Equality Gym exists is a <a href="https://twitter.com/equalitygym" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Twitter account</a> created in June, that provides no link to a website or information about a company. Its location is set to "New York" and its entire feed consists of random retweets of Democrats and sports news.Democratic groups suspect that the whole thing could be the work of James O'Keefe, a right-wing activist whose group, <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/11/woman-linked-to-james-okeefe-tried-to-discredit-media-with-false-story-roy-moore-impregnated-her-at-15/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Project Veritas</a>, sets up sting operations to try to trick Democrats into supporting illegal activity and then posting videos of it. There is no evidence that O'Keefe specifically is involved, although he did launch a similar operation in Wisconsin, setting up a fake documentary team called "Zeitgeist Pictures" to interview progressive organizations.Whether or not O'Keefe is behind the North Carolina affair, though, there is a clear Republican footprint."Whoever he really is, Fortune appears to have been working on behalf of at least one Republican operative. That $1,500 payment to Fortaleza, according to Echeverria and reporting from the News & Observer, traced back to a mysterious Georgia business called Blue Sky Med Labs," reported Sommer. "Blue Sky Med Labs is registered to Jason Boles, a Georgia Republican operative who also registered the campaign organization for Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon believer and Georgia House candidate almost certain to win a congressional seat in November."You can read more <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/liberal-groups-fear-james-okeefe-election-sting" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">here</a>.  <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/liberal-groups-fear-james-okeefe-election-sting">https://www.thedailybeast.com/liberal-groups-fear-james-okeefe-election-sting</a>beware TEADS]no lnx twt vidLiberal Groups Fear O’Keefe Election Sting‘BIG IF TRUE’This summer, a mystery man named James Fortune began approaching voting rights groups in North Carolina.Will SommerUpdated Sep. 26, 2020 3:12AM ET / Published Sep. 26, 2020 The election is less than 40 days away. Donald Trump is refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. And now the Trumpworld hunt is on for material that can be used to discredit any election results that show Joe Biden winning the election.This week: James O’Keefe and associates circle voter registration groups.Bogus ballot “destruction” story blows up on the rightLiberal groups fear election infiltration from O’Keefe and alliesThis summer, a mystery man named James Fortune began approaching voting rights groups in North Carolina.
Fortune, who claimed to be the operator of a progressive-minded North Carolina gym called “Equality Gym,” donated a few thousand dollars to the groups. Then he started asking whether they could illegally register undocumented immigrants to vote.As the groups became suspicious, Fortune vanished—leaving behind only a blurry picture of himself, no proof that his gym actually existed, and suspicions that he was using an alias. But the wired money came from a Georgia group with ties to a QAnon House candidate and a network of other Republican figures, raising suspicions among the groups that Fortune was working for right-wing undercover prankster James O’Keefe or an O’Keefe imitator.Right around the same time that Fortune was attempting to infiltrate progressive North Carolina groups, a so-called documentary film crew called “Zeitgeist Pictures” began interviewing six liberal groups in Wisconsin for what they claimed was a documentary about voting rights. The groups became suspicious, though, after the filmmakers began asking whether the groups were willing to break the law to illegally register voters.The film crew disappeared as the groups grew more suspicious when they found no proof, aside from a barebones website, that there’s an actual film company called Zeitgeist Pictures. The activists interviewed by the crew claim they were able to identify one of their “interviewers” as O’Keefe associate Christian Hartsock, using pictures of Hartsock online.Unlike the Wisconsin operation, the North Carolina scheme hasn’t been publicly linked to O’Keefe, and Project Veritas spokesman Neil W. McCabe said O’Keefe’s group won’t “comment on investigations, real or imagined.” But on Monday, Project Veritas plans to release a video that O’Keefe claims will offer “UNDENIABLE VIDEO PROOF OF SYSTEMIC VOTER FRAUD.”They say voter fraud “doesn’t exist.”They say there is “no evidence.”They say the evidence hasn’t been “substantiated”And in a world where people don’t believe what they read or hearMaybe people just need to see…https://t.co/OiRymtsgkk#BallotHarvesting09.28.2020 pic.twitter.com/PqMBkcd71e— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) September 24, 2020If it’s anything like past O’Keefe stings, the video will likely vastly overstate or decontextualize what actually happened. And it almost certainly will become fodder for the right, considering that Trump not only has ties to O’Keefe (he’s donated in the past to Project Veritas) but is eager to hype evidence of voter fraud. How much the media picks up on this depends both on whether they’ve learned lessons from covering O’Keefe’s past work and, frankly, whether he can actually produce the receipts for his work.What we know so far is that a North Carolina organization, Fortaleza, received $1,500 in donations from Fortune before he disappeared, according to Fortaleza executive director Angeline Echeverria. But Echeverria grew suspicious of Fortune after he began asking whether her group could register undocumented immigrants.“We’re really concerned that we may have been recorded, and that they might edit it in some way to give very false impressions of our work and our organization,” Echeverria told me.Whoever he really is, Fortune appears to have been working on behalf of at least one Republican operative. That $1,500 payment to Fortaleza, according to Echeverria and reporting from the News & Observer, traced back to a mysterious Georgia business called Blue Sky Med Labs.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;" /><div></div><p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">
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<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">2.  2017      Currently unpublished due to litigation        CA League of Conservation Voters,            Christian Hartsock, Dan<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">                                                                                                 CA Senate Pro Tem Kevin De Leon            Sandini, Ann Vandersteel<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: bold;"><p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On August 4, 2017 the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), an environmental non-profit organization, wrote to the California Attorney General’s Office requesting a criminal investigation after the organization discovered they had been infiltrated by operatives associated with Project Veritas. In their letter, LCV states the three operatives used fake identities to gain access to the organization and then sought and obtained confidential information about the organization’s operations and strategic goals. The letter also expressed concerns that the operatives may have surreptitiously recorded meetings because two of the operatives were revealed to be known associates of Project Veritas and had worked on projects involving surreptitious recordings. To date, no such footage as yet to be released. Reported by Jane Mayer of <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" target="blank" data-content="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" data-type="external" rel="undefined" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; cursor: pointer;">The New Yorker.</a><p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">
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<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again">https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again</a><p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">league of Conservation Voters has requested a criminal investigation into a group of operatives, possibly associated with James O’Keefe, that attempted to infiltrate the organization.]<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<div id="articleBody" data-template="two-column" class="ArticleBodyarticleBody1GSGP" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; line-height: 1.43; margin-bottom: 20px;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision;"><div class="SectionBreak SectionBreaksectionBreak1ppA7" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision;"><div class="SectionBreak SectionBreaksectionBreak1ppA7" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision;">James O’Keefe III, the conservative activist famous for undercover stings, has dedicated his life to exposing the “misconduct” of others. But he’s developed a side business in accidentally exposing his own. In the latest chapter of his strange career, the League of Conservation Voters, a national environmental-advocacy group, has filed a complaint against three individuals who infiltrated its operations, at least two of whom, the group alleges, “could be associated with” O’Keefe and have past ties to him. The group’s leaders recently began to suspect that they were being scammed, and decided to go to the authorities before O’Keefe or his alleged associates released any material on their own.In a six-page letter of complaint sent to the California Department of Justice on Friday, the League of Conservation Voters, or L.C.V., asked the state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, to open a criminal investigation into the operatives for potential fraud, racketeering, unfair business practices, trespassing, invasion of privacy, and possible violation of the state’s two-way-consent eavesdropping laws. The environmental group filed the letter in California because the “imposters,” as it labelled the operatives, first made contact with the organization through its state branch in the San Francisco Bay Area. A spokesperson for the California Department of Justice declined to comment, as is its policy on potential criminal investigations.O’Keefe, whom I reached by phone on Tuesday, said that he was unaware of the letter and otherwise declined to discuss the matter. “I don’t comment on investigations real or imagined, or work with mainstream reporters who operate in bad faith,” he told me. In 2016, I wrote <a class="ArticleBodylink1FS03" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/30/james-okeefe-accidentally-stings-himself" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(0, 0, 0), rgb(0, 0, 0)); background-position: 0px 87%, 100% 87%, 0px 92%; background-size: 0.05em 1px, 0.05em 1px, 1px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, repeat-x; background-attachment: initial, initial, initial; background-origin: initial, initial, initial; background-clip: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; text-decoration-line: none; margin-left: 1px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -3px 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;">an article</a> for this magazine about O’Keefe’s bungled attempt to sting George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a liberal nonprofit group that O’Keefe had targeted...
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=eague of Conservation Voters has requested a criminal investigation into a group of operatives, possibly associated with James O’Keefe, that attempted to infiltrate the organization.Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/GettyJames O’Keefe III, the conservative activist famous for undercover stings, has dedicated his life to exposing the “misconduct” of others. But he’s developed a side business in accidentally exposing his own. In the latest chapter of his strange career, the League of Conservation Voters, a national environmental-advocacy group, has filed a complaint against three individuals who infiltrated its operations, at least two of whom, the group alleges, “could be associated with” O’Keefe and have past ties to him. The group’s leaders recently began to suspect that they were being scammed, and decided to go to the authorities before O’Keefe or his alleged associates released any material on their own.
In a six-page letter of complaint sent to the California Department of Justice on Friday, the League of Conservation Voters, or L.C.V., asked the state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, to open a criminal investigation into the operatives for potential fraud, racketeering, unfair business practices, trespassing, invasion of privacy, and possible violation of the state’s two-way-consent eavesdropping laws. The environmental group filed the letter in California because the “imposters,” as it labelled the operatives, first made contact with the organization through its state branch in the San Francisco Bay Area. A spokesperson for the California Department of Justice declined to comment, as is its policy on potential criminal investigations.
O’Keefe, whom I reached by phone on Tuesday, said that he was unaware of the letter and otherwise declined to discuss the matter. “I don’t comment on investigations real or imagined, or work with mainstream reporters who operate in bad faith,” he told me. In 2016, I wrote an article for this magazine about O’Keefe’s bungled attempt to sting George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a liberal nonprofit group that O’Keefe had targeted.
L.C.V.’s letter describes an elaborate, six-month-long scheme. It alleges that the three operatives created false personas—backed up with fake Facebook, LinkedIn, and e-mail accounts—under which they met with “dozens” of the group’s staffers, board members, and donors, and gained access to “confidential” information. According to the letter, “at least two” of the individuals, who are identified as Christian Hartsock and Daniel Sandini, have worked with O’Keefe in the past, though L.C.V.’s letter acknowledges that the group doesn’t know whether O’Keefe was directly involved in the sting or merely inspired a copycat operation. Hartsock and Sandini also have connections to Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief political adviser: they both received film credits in “Occupy Unmasked,” a 2012 documentary directed by Bannon. The film’s cast notes describe Hartsock as a longtime collaborator of O’Keefe’s and a “protégé” of Andrew Breitbart, the late founder of the right-wing Web site Breitbart News, which Bannon ran prior to joining Trump’s Presidential campaign, last year. They also say that Sandini is “inspired by Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe.” The third individual named in the letter, Ann Vandersteel, is a conservative online commentator who has promoted conspiracy theories including “Pizzagate,” the election-season right-wing fantasy that claimed Hillary Clinton’s campaign was running a child-molestation ring in the basement of a Washington pizza parlor that, among other things, has no basement. (Hartsock declined to comment for this article, and attempts to reach Sandini and Vandersteel were unsuccessful.)
Carol Browner, the chair of L.C.V.’s board of directors and a former Environmental Protection Agency head and Obama Administration official, believes that L.C.V. was targeted because it is relatively mainstream and effective in advocating for action on climate change. In an interview, she described the operatives’ actions as “outrageous.” “It was quite sophisticated,” she said. “They work slowly. They do their research, so when you Google them, it looks O.K. They befriended people, learned about their families, and talked about donating big dollars. They took people out to dinners. They did this for months.”
According to the letter, the scheme began last December, when Hartsock approached L.C.V.’s Oakland, California, office pretending to be a man named Trent Maynard. He allegedly said that he represented a wealthy but politically inexperienced donor who had been motivated by Trump’s election to give to progressive causes. Hartsock presented a fake business card and mentioned that his donor friend wanted to be introduced to environmental leaders and elected officials. Soon after, L.C.V. staffers invited Hartsock to attend an Inauguration Day fund-raiser for environmental groups, where he mingled with various progressive leaders.
Two months later, in March, Hartsock introduced the California branch of L.C.V. to an associate, whom he identified as Dan Logan, of Logan Investments, but who L.C.V. now believes was Sandini. According to the Washington Post, Sandini was part of a 2016 sting by O’Keefe’s organization. A Web site for Logan Investments features jargon-laden material about its “distinctive approach” and “research-driven process and associated proprietary quant model.” The contact page offers an e-mail address for dan@loganinvestments.com, and a phone number in Portland, Oregon, that on Monday went unanswered. An associated Facebook page for Dan Logan displays pro-Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton photographs, and the hashtag #Resist. Among the books listed in Dan Logan’s “likes” is Saul D. Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” which O’Keefe has said he read in college, and has since expropriated from left-wing activists as his own guide to waging guerilla warfare on liberals.
According to the letter, Sandini, in the guise of Logan, claimed that he, too, was representing the potential donor whom Hartsock had mentioned. He said that he knew other potential donors as well, and began to court the L.C.V. staff aggressively, taking them out for lunches and dinners and mentioning that his clients were interested in donating as much as four million dollars per year, for multiple years. As thank-yous, he sent people bottles of wine, and at one point he spent two thousand dollars on a ticket to an event called Green Latinos, which was organized by an allied environmental group.
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The L.C.V. staff found some of Sandini’s behavior bizarre. At one L.C.V. event, he seemed inexplicably disappointed when he wasn’t able to present a pair of cufflinks to the California Senate’s president pro tempore, Kevin de León, after de León failed to show. The staff also noticed that he had a habit of leaving his cufflinks, and his phone, on tables during get-togethers, which, according to L.C.V.’s letter, “raises the possibility that we have been recorded without consent. We are deeply concerned that if surreptitious, unauthorized videos or recordings were made, these individuals could make deceptive edits to create unfair, malicious, and false impressions.”
By June, Sandini had attended several of L.C.V.’s top-donor gatherings in Washington, D.C., including one that counted several senators among the guests. Browner claims that Sandini made her immediately uncomfortable. “He stood too close, and he seemed to both know too much and too little,” she recalled. He was strangely knowledgeable about her husband’s career, and kept pushing Browner to respond to heavy-handed left-wing statements, while urging her to set up a voting drive in Florida. “He gave me the heebie-jeebies,” she said, a sentiment she shared with colleagues at the time. She was similarly uncomfortable, she said, when she met his friend Ann Steel, who attended a big-donor cocktail party for L.C.V. supporters. Browner nonetheless acquiesced to pose for a photograph with her. Tall, blond, and wearing a lacy white dress, Steel described herself as a wealthy oil baron’s widow. L.C.V.’s letter alleges that she is actually Ann Vandersteel.
L.C.V.’s staff began looking into the trio more closely last month, and soon noticed red flags. Their Facebook pages appeared to have been created quite recently, and featured an unusual number of “friends” from Southeast Asia—raising suspicions that these friends were purchased. A California L.C.V. staffer remembered that “Dan Logan” had mentioned his birthday, and checked that date against the address on a check he’d written. Sandini’s name popped up in connection with that address and date of birth. From there, it wasn’t hard to unravel the rest of the operation. Rather than confronting O’Keefe themselves, L.C.V.’s leaders decided to hire Tom Perrelli, a partner at the law firm Jenner & Block and a former associate attorney general in the Obama Justice Department, to file the letter with Becerra’s office.
Browner vowed to “fight this tooth and nail.” She said that L.C.V. didn’t know what the operatives were trying to get out of their investigation, and worried what they might do with the material they collected. “We have high standards, but it doesn’t mean they can’t slice and dice things,” she said. The letter notes that “O’Keefe and Project Veritas have a history of making deceptively edited videos to advance their political views.” In 2009, it notes, O’Keefe paid a hundred thousand dollars to settle a lawsuit stemming from one such video, and, in 2010, he was arrested in the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu, of Louisiana, and later pled guilty to entering federal property under false pretenses. O’Keefe claims he’s an investigative reporter, but last year, the letter notes, the chair of the ethics committee of the Society of Professional Journalists proclaimed that O’Keefe “is not an ethical journalist” and “has a history of distorting facts or context.”=<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheUndercurrents/photos/this-is-christian-hartsock-a-long-time-undercover-operative-for-james-okeefe-and/957849971028786/">https://www.facebook.com/TheUndercurrents/photos/this-is-christian-hartsock-a-long-time-undercover-operative-for-james-okeefe-and/957849971028786/</a>this  is Christian Hartsock, a long-time undercover operative for James O'Keefe and Project Veritas. Hartsock was embedded in Bernie Sanders' primary campaign last year, and used the alias "Steve Packard" in the elaborate sting against Democracy Partners and the Hillary Clinton campaign. CA League of Conservation Voters says he posed as progressive political consultant "Trent Maynard" in a complaint to the CA Attorney General this August. Please share to spread the word and <a class="58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/exposeveritas?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&xts%5B0%5D=68.ARCJKqnz6vYYHfquWiBiVmE-Wc35LRlgMyFbcOkavPeQdapU4_zd7bpoxHqXr_iIaqlj9jiJ-Zpmi2Iu-wxZJ5ENoXAGSE-EyDTWW5fPHoUhyLij9ZioqOG17t-33MSGlVjMPBqK4aQLjrestgFhLRB3gzPjpRlP8q7ZmyghjSmkHCuEwXpkklYwWBiRd_Mk-ZMzQreKVIidGvqSHn5xd1bm93CtJCRznsdoM_Jv2zucyP-YW0PnyP-oNiQYn_r_4leV-P1TSMbJnJjG0RCvmWxy9IRKBXimsgqjAeqlAvvDHZu90SzQrp6mrWBmAza7zMf_7l93EzUqXaH-ulHTOzY&tn=%2ANK-R" data-ft="{" type="type" tn="tn" n="N" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">#ExposeVeritas</a>:<a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project">https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project</a><div class="panel-pane pane-node-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h1 style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 39.6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.875rem; font-weight: normal;">American Federation of Teachers and Affiliates Respond to Surge of Suspected Project Veritas Attacks</h1></div></div><div class="panel-pane pane-node-content" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><article class="node-12512 node node-press-release view-mode-full clearfix" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="node-content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="content-body" style="box-sizing: inherit; position: relative; z-index: 101;"><div class="field-press-release-date" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2em; width: 228px; float: left; margin-right: 20px;"><h4 class="field-label" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px;">For Release: </h4><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;">Tuesday, April 24, 2018</div></div></div><div class="field-press-release-contact" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 2em; text-align: right; width: 290px; float: right; margin-right: 0px;"><h4 class="field-label" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0px;">Contact:</h4><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.6em;"><div id="taxonomy-term-1634" class="taxonomy-term vocabulary-press-release-contacts" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><h5 style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.66667em; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Oriana Korin</h5><div class="content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-pr-contact-phone" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit;">202-374-6103</div><div class="field-pr-contact-email" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit;">Oriana.Korin@aft.org</div><div class="field-pr-contact-website" style="text-align: left; box-sizing: inherit;"><a href="http://www.aft.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.aft.org</a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field-body" style="box-sizing: inherit; clear: both;">WASHINGTON—New evidence suggests that the conservative, anti-labor hit group run by James O’Keefe, Project Veritas, is up to its old right-wing strategy of harassing teachers and their right to organize. These attacks essentially follow the same script used on the Albuquerque Teachers Federation earlier this month, where the union believes that longtime O’Keefe sidekick Christian Hartsock used a false identity to seek information, pretending to be a teacher from Del Norte High School who had abused a student physically and with racial epithets. The individual believed to be Hartsock provided a name that was not a registered union member’s, acted strangely and was elusive with details, sparking union officials to research his identity and to notify school officials and local authorities about the likely bogus reports of abuse and the impersonation of a teacher.Project Veritas has a long history of creating false narratives using doctored videos and refusing to allow the unedited footage to be viewed. The American Federation of Teachers has evidence of suspected intrusions on other local offices and schools around the country as well, including New York, Michigan and Ohio. Reports of suspicious activity are filtering in from affiliates daily, and the union is eager to mount a defense and consider all available legal action to protect its members and students.The AFT is well-primed for these attacks, and is eager to let the public know about the ongoing efforts to harm and entrap public school teachers and their allies. According to Albuquerque Teachers Federation President Ellen Bernstein, “We work every day to support public school students, teachers and parents, and deep-pocketed, anti-teacher political operatives are now descending on New Mexico in an attempt to discredit our work. Child abuse and racial harassment are serious issues our school professionals train to deal with, and appropriating or exploiting them for political games is not only offensive, it does nothing to help students, parents or teachers. We will continue to stand up for our members, our students and this community against these deceitful tactics.”AFT President Randi Weingarten said, “For the last several weeks, teachers and other public employees, students and parents—indeed, activists of all ages, races, genders and creeds—have championed investment in and support of safe, welcoming, well-funded public schools. So it’s no surprise that when teachers are making progress in their fight for high-quality public education, it appears that Project Veritas reverts to its old playbook of deception and gotcha tactics in an attempt to discredit the very people who are fighting for our schools and keeping our children safe.”</div></div></div></article></div></div><div class="panel-pane pane-fieldable-panels-pane pane-uuid-17f58b36-a438-4923-9f9a-4a50988aff59 pane-bundle-rich-text-area" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div class="pane-content" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="fieldable-panels-pane" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="field-rich-text" style="box-sizing: inherit;"># # # #The AFT represents 1.7 million pre-K through 12th-grade teachers; paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel; higher education faculty and professional staff; federal, state and local government employees; nurses and healthcare workers; and early childhood educators.</div></div></div></div>
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Hartsock was embedded in Bernie Sanders' primary ...</a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAYQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFSgAMAF6BAgGEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjABegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjABegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjABegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjABegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjABegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjABegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjABegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjABegQIBhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Has James O'Keefe Accidentally Stung Himself Again? | The New Yorker</a></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.newyorker.com/news/.../has-james-okeefe-accidentally-stung-himself-again</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;">Aug 8, 2017 - James O'Keefe III, the conservative activist famous for undercover stings, has ... It alleges that the three operatives created false personas—backed up with ... Christian Hartsock and Daniel Sandini, have worked with O'Keefe in the past, .... The letter notes that “O'Keefe and Project Veritas have a history of ...</div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAAQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFSgAMAJ6BAgAEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjACegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjACegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjACegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjACegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjACegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjACegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjACegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/01/james-okeefe-disgraced-right-wing-activist-caught-going-teachers-unions/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjACegQIABAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Teachers Unions Say James O'Keefe's Project Veritas Is Targeting ...</a></h3>
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CNN was forwarded an e-mail, sent from O'Keefe's e-mail address, to the executive director of Project Veritas, Izzy .... Christian Hartsock, another activist who is part of the documentary, told ... Political Op-Eds · Social Commentary.</a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CJJwjn4FRW8J:www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/index.html+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:CJJwjn4FRW8J:www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/29/okeefe.cnn.prank/index.html%2B%26cd%3D5%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAEegQIAxAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Missing: <s>operative</s> ‎| ‎Must include: ‎</a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=o%27keefe++Project+Veritas+%22operative%22+Christian+Hartsock&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0Q5t4CMAR6BAgDEAc" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">operative</a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFSgAMAV6BAgCEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAFegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAFegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAFegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAFegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAFegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAFegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAFegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAFegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">DEBANKING: Chase Bank Says “moral character” a ... - Project Veritas</a></h3>
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right: auto; top: 12px; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 3; transition: opacity 0.218s ease 0s; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 2px 4px; left: 0px; visibility: hidden;"><ol style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><li class="action-menu-item ab_dropdownitem" role="menuitem" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; list-style: none; user-select: none; cursor: pointer;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bqVAY0m1pAUJ:https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:bqVAY0m1pAUJ:https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAFegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bqVAY0m1pAUJ:https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:bqVAY0m1pAUJ:https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAFegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Apr 16, 2019 - Man's Chase Payment Processing Shut Down, Suspects Political Targeting of Provocative Conservative Merchandising. Chase Bank Unable to ...</a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bqVAY0m1pAUJ:https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:bqVAY0m1pAUJ:https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/04/16/debanking-chase-bank-says-moral-character-a-reason-why-they-dont-do-business-with-those-types-of-people/%2B%26cd%3D6%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAFegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Missing: <s>operative</s> ‎| ‎Must include: ‎</a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=o%27keefe++Project+Veritas+%22operative%22+Christian+Hartsock&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0Q5t4CMAV6BAgCEAc" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">operative</a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAUQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFSgAMAZ6BAgFEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAGegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAGegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAGegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAGegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAGegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAGegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAGegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAGegQIBRAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Is James O'Keefe Tied to Another Elaborate Right-Wing Sting - Buzzflash</a></h3>
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><a class="fl" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:RQMwJiC_4QsJ:buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation+&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:RQMwJiC_4QsJ:buzzflash.com/commentary/is-james-o-keefe-tied-to-another-elaborate-right-wing-sting-operation%2B%26cd%3D7%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAGegQIBRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Aug 14, 2017 - While the undercover operation has O'Keefe's Modus Operandi ... and titled "LCV TARGETED BY RIGHT WING OPERATIVES USING ... as Christian Hartsock and Daniel Sandini – have worked with O'Keefe in the past. ... The infiltrators are associated with O'Keefe's right-wing Project Veritas and its affiliate, ...</a></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAcQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFSgAMAd6BAgHEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAHegQIBxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Ops & Methodology - Project Veritas Exposed</a></h3>
<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.projectveritas.exposed/operations</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;">Since O'Keefe created Project Veritas Action, the 501(c)4 political advocacy arm of ... 2017 American Pravda CNN, New York Times Christian Hartsock, Kiera Holding, et al. ... In 2016, Project Veritas operatives infiltrated Democracy Partners, ...</div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFSgAMAh6BAgIEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAIegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAIegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAIegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAIegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAIegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAIegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAIegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QFjAIegQICBAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">American Federation of Teachers and Affiliates Respond to Surge of ...</a></h3>
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MuTPcLt0L2EJ:https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:MuTPcLt0L2EJ:https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project%2B%26cd%3D9%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAIegQICBAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Apr 24, 2018 - ... believes that longtime O'Keefe sidekick Christian Hartsock used a false identity to ... Project Veritas has a long history of creating false narratives using ... and parents, and deep-pocketed, anti-teacher political operatives are ...</a></div></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:MuTPcLt0L2EJ:https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project+&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:MuTPcLt0L2EJ:https://www.aft.org/press-release/american-federation-teachers-and-affiliates-respond-surge-suspected-project%2B%26cd%3D9%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAIegQICBAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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The man sitting in the chair in the burgundy shirt appears to be Christian Hartsock, a conservative filmmaker who has worked with O'Keefe on his stings.</a></div></div></div></div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAJegQICRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;"></a><div class="bxc bx-base bx-custom bx-active-step-1 bx-campaign-811003 bx-width-full bx-type-agilityzone bx-has-close-x-1 bx-has-close- bx-fx-fade bx-impress" id="bx-campaign-811003" aria-hidden="false" style="box-sizing: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-size-adjust: auto; text-align: center; text-overflow: clip; text-shadow: none; line-height: 1; user-select: none; visibility: hidden; display: none; clear: both; margin-top: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><div class="bx-slab" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; pointer-events: none;"><div class="bx-align" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%; pointer-events: auto; width: 671.656px;"><div class="bx-creative bx-creative-811003" id="bx-creative-811003" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; position: relative; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; max-height: none; height: auto; backface-visibility: hidden; margin: 0px auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: 50% 50%; width: 671.656px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-width: 7px 0px;"><div class="bx-wrap" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; text-align: inherit; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px auto; width: 671.656px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><div class="bx-step bx-step-1 bx-active-step bx-step-zj4SWQf bx-step-811003-1 bx-tail-placement-hidden" id="bx-step-811003-1" data-close-placement="" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; text-align: inherit;"><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAJegQICRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">L.C.V.’s letter describes an elaborate, six-month-long scheme. It alleges that the three operatives created false personas—backed up with fake Facebook, LinkedIn, and e-mail accounts—under which they met with “dozens” of the group’s staffers, board members, and donors, and gained access to “confidential” information. According to the letter, “at least two” of the individuals, who are identified as Christian Hartsock and Daniel Sandini, have worked with O’Keefe in the past, though L.C.V.’s letter acknowledges that the group doesn’t know whether O’Keefe was directly involved in the sting or merely inspired a copycat operation. Hartsock and Sandini also have connections to Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief political adviser: they both received film credits in “Occupy Unmasked,” a 2012 documentary directed by Bannon. The film’s cast notes describe Hartsock as a longtime collaborator of O’Keefe’s and a “protégé” of Andrew Breitbart, the late founder of the right-wing Web site Breitbart News, which Bannon ran prior to joining Trump’s Presidential campaign, last year. They also say that Sandini is “inspired by Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe.” The third individual named in the letter, Ann Vandersteel, is a conservative online commentator who has promoted conspiracy theories including “Pizzagate,” the election-season right-wing fantasy that claimed Hillary Clinton’s campaign was running a child-molestation ring in the basement of a Washington pizza parlor that, among other things, has no basement. (Hartsock declined to comment for this article, and attempts to reach Sandini and Vandersteel were unsuccessful.)</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAJegQICRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Carol Browner, the chair of L.C.V.’s board of directors and a former Environmental Protection Agency head and Obama Administration official, believes that L.C.V. was targeted because it is relatively mainstream and effective in advocating for action on climate change. In an interview, she described the operatives’ actions as “outrageous.” “It was quite sophisticated,” she said. “They work slowly. They do their research, so when you Google them, it looks O.K. They befriended people, learned about their families, and talked about donating big dollars. They took people out to dinners. They did this for months.”</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAJegQICRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">According to the letter, the scheme began last December, when Hartsock approached L.C.V.’s Oakland, California, office pretending to be a man named Trent Maynard. He allegedly said that he represented a wealthy but politically inexperienced donor who had been motivated by Trump’s election to give to progressive causes. Hartsock presented a fake business card and mentioned that his donor friend wanted to be introduced to environmental leaders and elected officials. Soon after, L.C.V. staffers invited Hartsock to attend an Inauguration Day fund-raiser for environmental groups, where he mingled with various progressive leaders.</a><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d+&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:3C3jZlZ-vzYJ:https://www.huffpost.com/entry/allison-maass-infiltrate-democratic-campaigns_n_57b73782e4b0b51733a3207d%2B%26cd%3D10%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwi_uf3mo-LiAhVEaq0KHU23DO0QIDAJegQICRAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); cursor: pointer; font-size: 14px; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Two months later, in March, Hartsock introduced the California branch of L.C.V. to an associate, whom he identified as Dan Logan, of Logan Investments, but who L.C.V. now believes was Sandini. </a><a class="ArticleBodylink1FS03" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/08/james-okeefes-undercover-video-stings-damaged-liberal-icons-can-a-new-lawsuit-take-him-down/?utm_term=.b95377485a27" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(255, 255, 255), rgb(255, 255, 255)), linear-gradient(rgb(0, 0, 0), rgb(0, 0, 0)); background-position: 0px 87%, 100% 87%, 0px 92%; background-size: 0.05em 1px, 0.05em 1px, 1px 1px; background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, repeat-x; background-attachment: initial, initial, initial; background-origin: initial, initial, initial; background-clip: initial, initial, initial; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; text-decoration-line: none; margin-left: 1px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 1px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 1px 2px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) -1px 0px 0px, rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px -3px 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;">According</a> to the Washington Post, Sandini was part of a 2016 sting by O’Keefe’s organization. A Web site for Logan Investments features jargon-laden material about its “distinctive approach” and “research-driven process and associated proprietary quant model.” The contact page offers an e-mail address for dan@loganinvestments.com, and a phone number in Portland, Oregon, that on Monday went unanswered. An associated Facebook page for Dan Logan displays pro-Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton photographs, and the hashtag #Resist. Among the books listed in Dan Logan’s “likes” is Saul D. Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” which O’Keefe has said he read in college, and has since expropriated from left-wing activists as his own guide to waging guerilla warfare on liberals.According to the letter, Sandini, in the guise of Logan, claimed that he, too, was representing the potential donor whom Hartsock had mentioned. He said that he knew other potential donors as well, and began to court the L.C.V. staff aggressively, taking them out for lunches and dinners and mentioning that his clients were interested in donating as much as four million dollars per year, for multiple years. As thank-yous, he sent people bottles of wine, and at one point he spent two thousand dollars on a ticket to an event called Green Latinos, which was organized by an allied environmental group.The L.C.V. staff found some of Sandini’s behavior bizarre. At one L.C.V. event, he seemed inexplicably disappointed when he wasn’t able to present a pair of cufflinks to the California Senate’s president pro tempore, Kevin de León, after de León failed to show. The staff also noticed that he had a habit of leaving his cufflinks, and his phone, on tables during get-togethers, which, according to L.C.V.’s letter, “raises the possibility that we have been recorded without consent. We are deeply concerned that if surreptitious, unauthorized videos or recordings were made, these individuals could make deceptive edits to create unfair, malicious, and false impressions.”By June, Sandini had attended several of L.C.V.’s top-donor gatherings in Washington, D.C., including one that counted several senators among the guests. Browner claims that Sandini made her immediately uncomfortable. “He stood too close, and he seemed to both know too much and too little,” she recalled. He was strangely knowledgeable about her husband’s career, and kept pushing Browner to respond to heavy-handed left-wing statements, while urging her to set up a voting drive in Florida. “He gave me the heebie-jeebies,” she said, a sentiment she shared with colleagues at the time. She was similarly uncomfortable, she said, when she met his friend Ann Steel, who attended a big-donor cocktail party for L.C.V. supporters. Browner nonetheless acquiesced to pose for a photograph with her. Tall, blond, and wearing a lacy white dress, Steel described herself as a wealthy oil baron’s widow. L.C.V.’s letter alleges that she is actually Ann Vandersteel.L.C.V.’s staff began looking into the trio more closely last month, and soon noticed red flags. Their Facebook pages appeared to have been created quite recently, and featured an unusual number of “friends” from Southeast Asia—raising suspicions that these friends were purchased. A California L.C.V. staffer remembered that “Dan Logan” had mentioned his birthday, and checked that date against the address on a check he’d written. Sandini’s name popped up in connection with that address and date of birth. From there, it wasn’t hard to unravel the rest of the operation. Rather than confronting O’Keefe themselves, L.C.V.’s leaders decided to hire Tom Perrelli, a partner at the law firm Jenner & Block and a former associate attorney general in the Obama Justice Department, to file the letter with Becerra’s office.Browner vowed to “fight this tooth and nail.” She said that L.C.V. didn’t know what the operatives were trying to get out of their investigation, and worried what they might do with the material they collected. “We have high standards, but it doesn’t mean they can’t slice and dice things,” she said. The letter notes that “O’Keefe and Project Veritas have a history of making deceptively edited videos to advance their political views.” In 2009, it notes, O’Keefe paid a hundred thousand dollars to settle a lawsuit stemming from one such video, and, in 2010, he was arrested in the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu, of Louisiana, and later pled guilty to entering federal property under false pretenses. O’Keefe claims he’s an investigative reporter, but last year, the letter notes, the chair of the ethics committee of the Society of Professional Journalists proclaimed that O’Keefe “is not an ethical journalist” and “has a history of distorting facts or context.”</div></div></div></div><p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">==<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The League of Conservation Voters has requested a criminal investigation into a group of operatives, possibly associated with James O’Keefe, that attempted to infiltrate the organization.Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">James O’Keefe III, the conservative activist famous for undercover stings, has dedicated his life to exposing the “misconduct” of others. But he’s developed a side business in accidentally exposing his own. In the latest chapter of his strange career, the League of Conservation Voters, a national environmental-advocacy group, has filed a complaint against three individuals who infiltrated its operations, at least two of whom, the group alleges, “could be associated with” O’Keefe and have past ties to him. The group’s leaders recently began to suspect that they were being scammed, and decided to go to the authorities before O’Keefe or his alleged associates released any material on their own.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">In a six-page letter of complaint sent to the California Department of Justice on Friday, the League of Conservation Voters, or L.C.V., asked the state’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, to open a criminal investigation into the operatives for potential fraud, racketeering, unfair business practices, trespassing, invasion of privacy, and possible violation of the state’s two-way-consent eavesdropping laws. The environmental group filed the letter in California because the “imposters,” as it labelled the operatives, first made contact with the organization through its state branch in the San Francisco Bay Area. A spokesperson for the California Department of Justice declined to comment, as is its policy on potential criminal investigations.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">O’Keefe, whom I reached by phone on Tuesday, said that he was unaware of the letter and otherwise declined to discuss the matter. “I don’t comment on investigations real or imagined, or work with mainstream reporters who operate in bad faith,” he told me. In 2016, I wrote an article for this magazine about O’Keefe’s bungled attempt to sting George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, a liberal nonprofit group that O’Keefe had targeted.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">L.C.V.’s letter describes an elaborate, six-month-long scheme. It alleges that the three operatives created false personas—backed up with fake Facebook, LinkedIn, and e-mail accounts—under which they met with “dozens” of the group’s staffers, board members, and donors, and gained access to “confidential” information.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;"> According to the letter, “at least two” of the individuals, who are identified as Christian Hartsock and Daniel Sandini, have worked with O’Keefe in the past, though L.C.V.’s letter acknowledges that the group doesn’t know whether O’Keefe was directly involved in the sting or merely inspired a copycat operation. Hartsock and Sandini also have connections to Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s chief political adviser: they both received film credits in “Occupy Unmasked,” a 2012 documentary directed by Bannon. <p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">The film’s cast notes describe Hartsock as a longtime collaborator of O’Keefe’s and a “protégé” of Andrew Breitbart, the late founder of the right-wing Web site Breitbart News, which Bannon ran prior to joining Trump’s Presidential campaign, last year. They also say that Sandini is “inspired by Andrew Breitbart and James O’Keefe.” The third individual named in the letter, Ann Vandersteel, is a conservative online commentator who has promoted conspiracy theories including “Pizzagate,” the election-season right-wing fantasy that claimed Hillary Clinton’s campaign was running a child-molestation ring in the basement of a Washington pizza parlor that, among other things, has no basement. (Hartsock declined to comment for this article, and attempts to reach Sandini and Vandersteel were unsuccessful.)<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">Carol Browner, the chair of L.C.V.’s board of directors and a former Environmental Protection Agency head and Obama Administration official, believes that L.C.V. was targeted because it is relatively mainstream and effective in advocating for action on climate change. In an interview, she described the operatives’ actions as “outrageous.” “It was quite sophisticated,” she said. “They work slowly. They do their research, so when you Google them, it looks O.K. They befriended people, learned about their families, and talked about donating big dollars. They took people out to dinners. They did this for months.”<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">According to the letter, the scheme began last December, when Hartsock approached L.C.V.’s Oakland, California, office pretending to be a man named Trent Maynard. He allegedly said that he represented a wealthy but politically inexperienced donor who had been motivated by Trump’s election to give to progressive causes. Hartsock presented a fake business card and mentioned that his donor friend wanted to be introduced to environmental leaders and elected officials. Soon after, L.C.V. staffers invited Hartsock to attend an Inauguration Day fund-raiser for environmental groups, where he mingled with various progressive leaders.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">Two months later, in March, Hartsock introduced the California branch of L.C.V. to an associate, whom he identified as Dan Logan, of Logan Investments, but who L.C.V. now believes was Sandini. According to the Washington Post, Sandini was part of a 2016 sting by O’Keefe’s organization. A Web site for Logan Investments features jargon-laden material about its “distinctive approach” and “research-driven process and associated proprietary quant model.” The contact page offers an e-mail address for dan@loganinvestments.com, and a phone number in Portland, Oregon, that on Monday went unanswered. An associated Facebook page for Dan Logan displays pro-Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton photographs, and the hashtag #Resist. Among the books listed in Dan Logan’s “likes” is Saul D. Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” which O’Keefe has said he read in college, and has since expropriated from left-wing activists as his own guide to waging guerilla warfare on liberals.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">According to the letter, Sandini, in the guise of Logan, claimed that he, too, was representing the potential donor whom Hartsock had mentioned. He said that he knew other potential donors as well, and began to court the L.C.V. staff aggressively, taking them out for lunches and dinners and mentioning that his clients were interested in donating as much as four million dollars per year, for multiple years. As thank-yous, he sent people bottles of wine, and at one point he spent two thousand dollars on a ticket to an event called Green Latinos, which was organized by an allied environmental group.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">The L.C.V. staff found some of Sandini’s behavior bizarre. At one L.C.V. event, he seemed inexplicably disappointed when he wasn’t able to present a pair of cufflinks to the California Senate’s president pro tempore, Kevin de León, after de León failed to show. The staff also noticed that he had a habit of leaving his cufflinks, and his phone, on tables during get-togethers, which, according to L.C.V.’s letter, “raises the possibility that we have been recorded without consent. We are deeply concerned that if surreptitious, unauthorized videos or recordings were made, these individuals could make deceptive edits to create unfair, malicious, and false impressions.”<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">By June, Sandini had attended several of L.C.V.’s top-donor gatherings in Washington, D.C., including one that counted several senators among the guests. Browner claims that Sandini made her immediately uncomfortable. “He stood too close, and he seemed to both know too much and too little,” she recalled. He was strangely knowledgeable about her husband’s career, and kept pushing Browner to respond to heavy-handed left-wing statements, while urging her to set up a voting drive in Florida. “He gave me the heebie-jeebies,” she said, a sentiment she shared with colleagues at the time. She was similarly uncomfortable, she said, when she met his friend Ann Steel, who attended a big-donor cocktail party for L.C.V. supporters. Browner nonetheless acquiesced to pose for a photograph with her. Tall, blond, and wearing a lacy white dress, Steel described herself as a wealthy oil baron’s widow. L.C.V.’s letter alleges that she is actually Ann Vandersteel.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-image: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">L.C.V.’s staff began looking into the trio more closely last month, and soon noticed red flags. Their Facebook pages appeared to have been created quite recently, and featured an unusual number of “friends” from Southeast Asia—raising suspicions that these friends were purchased. A California L.C.V. staffer remembered that “Dan Logan” had mentioned his birthday, and checked that date against the address on a check he’d written. Sandini’s name popped up in connection with that address and date of birth. From there, it wasn’t hard to unravel the rest of the operation. Rather than confronting O’Keefe themselves, L.C.V.’s leaders decided to hire Tom Perrelli, a partner at the law firm Jenner & Block and a former associate attorney general in the Obama Justice Department, to file the letter with Becerra’s office.<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">
<p class="font_8" style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; pointer-events: auto;">Browner vowed to “fight this tooth and nail.” She said that L.C.V. didn’t know what the operatives were trying to get out of their investigation, and worried what they might do with the material they collected. “We have high standards, but it doesn’t mean they can’t slice and dice things,” she said. The letter notes that “O’Keefe and Project Veritas have a history of making deceptively edited videos to advance their political views.” In 2009, it notes, O’Keefe paid a hundred thousand dollars to settle a lawsuit stemming from one such video, and, in 2010, he was arrested in the offices of Senator Mary Landrieu, of Louisiana, and later pled guilty to entering federal property under false pretenses. O’Keefe claims he’s an investigative reporter, but last year, the letter notes, the chair of the ethics committee of the Society of Professional Journalists proclaimed that O’Keefe “is not an ethical journalist” and “has a history of distorting facts or context.”</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>