FBI Search Reveals Project Veritas Has Ties to Proud Boys
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The Justice Department searched two locations associated with Project Veritas as part of an investigation into how a diary stolen from President Biden's daughter, Ashley, came to be publicly disclosed a week and a half before the 2020 presidential election, according to people briefed on the matter.Federal agents in New York conducted the court-ordered searches on Thursday—one in New York City and one in suburban Westchester County—at places linked to people who had worked with the group and its leader, James O'Keefe, according to two of the people briefed on the events.
The investigation is being handled by F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors in Manhattan who work on public corruption matters, the people said. Project Veritas did not publish Ms. Biden's diary, but dozens of handwritten pages from it were posted on a right-wing website on October 24, 2020.
A Justice Department investigation into conservative operative James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas group includes a review of O'Keefe's ties to a member of the far-right Proud Boys, according to a federal search warrant.
On November 6th, FBI agents carried out an early-morning raid on O'Keefe's home. The search came as part of a year-long investigation involving Project Veritas's purchase of a diary purportedly belonging to Joe Biden's daughter, Ashley Biden, and the diary's subsequent publication on a right-wing website.
As part of the raid, according to the warrant, FBI agents were looking for communications with a self-described "third degree" Proud Boy named Jackson Voynick. Voynick is listed in the document as one of several persons whose communications could reveal information about "potential co-conspirators."
The plot thickens.
Project Veritas Loses Defamation Suit Against CNN
Originally posted by cdtm
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/fbi-and-southern-district-of-new-york-raid-project-veritas-journalists-homes/
CNN did not defame Project Veritas by depicting the group's Twitter ban as part of a social media crackdown on "misinformation," a federal judge ruled on Friday. On February 11, 2021, CNN anchor Ana Cabrera reported that Twitter permanently banned Project Veritas for "repeated violations of Twitter's policies prohibiting the sharing—or threats of sharing—of other people's private information without consent."
After the broadcast, Project Veritas's counsel demanded a retraction and then sued after CNN declined to grant one. Founded by conservative activist James O'Keefe, Project Veritas is known for its disseminating surreptitiously recorded and deceptively edited videos on news organizations, as well people and entities perceived to be aligned with the political left. Its sting videos have made it a magnet for litigation and criminal investigations.
Judge Rules Project Veritas Must Face Defamation Suit Over False Voter Fraud Claims
Project Veritas cannot dismiss a defamation lawsuit from a postmaster in Pennsylvania who says the group smeared him by running fabricated claims that he backdated mail-in ballots to sway the outcome of the 2020 presidential election for Joe Biden, a judge ruled.
The Erie postmaster, Robert Weisenbach, says he was actually a Donald Trump supporter who voted for him on Election Day.
The so-called "whistle-blower," U.S. Postal Service employee Richard Hopkins, recanted his remarks to the inspector general. Hopkins later asserted his about-face was coerced and reaped a windfall, making $130,000 over GoFundMe before that account was suspended and $236,000 over GiveSendGo, according to the lawsuit.