Tuesday, January 26, 2010

ACORN "pimp" arrested in New Orleans

The Times Picayune reports that James O'Keefe, a conservative filmmaker who made surreptitious videos of ACORN employees which went viral, has been arrested as a part of a 4 man scheme to tamper with telephones in Senator Mary Landrieu's Hale Boggs Building offices. O'Keefe reportedly was in town to give a speech to the a libertarian group, Pelican Institute for Public Policy(scroll down to Events). One of the four men arrested is the son of the acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. The Department of Justice Press Release is here.