Video scammer James O’Keefe apparently broke the law – again
Can you say “Recidivist?”
[su_publir_above_post][O’Keefe’s] Project Veritas Action may have again run afoul of the law. A video released last week, purporting to prove election rigging, shows footage of a September conference call that a Veritas camera operator secretly recorded. The narration describes “daily conference calls we witnessed.”
But ThinkProgress confirmed with multiple people on the conference call shown in the video that they were on the call from states that have wiretapping laws that prohibit recording of phone conversations unless all parties consent to be recorded. According to the Digital Media Law Project, 11 states have these “two-party consent laws.” At least two people who were part of the call confirmed that they were calling from different states on that list and that they did not consent to be recorded by O’Keefe or anyone else.
Project Veritas and O’Keefe did not respond to a ThinkProgress inquiry about their recording of and publication of this video. But it appears their latest videos, claiming to expose “illegal” activity, may in fact be the product of illegal wiretapping.[su_revcontent]
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