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The 25-year-old American James O’Keefe, who became a right-wing hero by filming himself and his partner Hannah Giles dressed as a pimp and a prostitute attempting to exposing alleged misconduct in the offices of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), was arrested Monday and is facing Federal charges in a K-Mart version of a Senate wiretapping plot along with three other accomplices Joseph Basel, Stan Dai and Robert Flanagan.
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In O’Keefe and Giles’s first undercover video from several months ago, they were asking the ACORN employees for assistance with obtaining a housing loan to open a brothel with 12 underage Latin girls.
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The two of them interviewed with several right-wing news outlets, such as “The O’Reilly Factor,” after they made their video public accusing ACORN of assisting in creating their brothel and conducting voter fraud in the 2008 Presidential election.

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P & P: We hope so! We’d love to have book signings in LA and SF where people can meet us and some of the people in the book. We’ll keep you posted!
On Friday, April 2, 2010, “Off the Set” will be available in bookstores and online. You can pre-order your copy on Amazon right now. The hardbound fine-art photography book features more than 100 photos, several essays written by the stars themselves, and a foreword written by author, adult filmmaker and sex educator Tristan Taormino. A portion of the sale price of each book will be donated to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM), a non-profit corporation founded in 1998 to care for the physical and emotional needs of people who work in the adult entertainment industry.

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FriendFinder postpones IPO until next week
NEW YORK
Penthouse magazine publisher FriendFinder Networks’ initial public offering will be postponed until early next week to give the company more time to answer questions from the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to one of the underwriters managing the deal.
FriendFinder Networks Inc., which also operates adult entertainment and networking Web sites including AdultFriendFinder.com, was expected to debut on the market Thursday but needs time to prepare a written response to the SEC, said Renaissance Securities (Cyprus) Ltd.
The company will sell 20 million shares and hopes to raise $220 million. The stock is expected to price between $10 and $12 and will trade under the symbol “FFN” on the Nasdaq Global Market.

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By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY
NEW ORLEANS The attorney for an independent filmmaker accused of entering a U.S. senator’s office under false pretense and “interfering” with the phone system said Wednesday that his client did not bug any telephones or engage in other illegal activity.
“There was no wire-tapping, bugging or interfering with the phone system,” said Michael Madigan, attorney for James O’Keefe, 25.
O’Keefe gained prominence last year by posing as a pimp and recording videos that showed alleged improprieties by employees of ACORN, a community-activist group. The videos led to efforts in Congress to cut off federal funding of ACORN.
On Wednesday, some of O’Keefe’s backers distanced themselves from him.
“Citizens have an important role in helping to expose waste and/or fraud … but it must be done in a lawful manner,” said Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, who had introduced a resolution to honor O’Keefe for exposing ACORN.

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The last time we heard from right-wing boy-wonder James O’Keefe, or as I call him, L’il Nixon, he was the toast of the mad-right think-tanks, crowing on Fox and various wingnut websites about having brought ACORN to its knees by posing as a pimp and seeking the organization’s advice about setting up a house of ill-repute on the government’s dime. For this, and despite plain evidence that his stunt used selectively edited footage and audio, O’Keefe was hailed as a hero in the dimmer, danker precincts of the fever-swamp far-right. The Washington Times – predictably as insane as ever – dubbed O’Keefe “a role model and a true American patriot,” and don’t expect them to back away from that overheated assessment any time soon. The politicians who hailed him for his “diligent investigative journalism” – let’s see how long it takes Pete Olson (R-TX) to disavow that idiotic accolade, from a congressional resolution authored by him and signed by several dozen of his mouth-breathing peers – …

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Rep. Pitts: O’Keefe wrong Activist praised by GOP lawmakers during ACORN exposé now has been arrested in alleged wiretapping scheme Intelligencer JournalLancaster New Era Jan 28, 2010 00:03 EST
By TOM MURSE, Staff Writer
A few months ago, U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts joined fellow Republican lawmakers in congratulating James O’Keefe for his “exemplary actions” as a government watchdog and journalist.
O’Keefe, they wrote, was “owed a debt of gratitude by the people of the United States” for his hidden-camera exposé of the community-organizing group ACORN, in which he and another activist posed as a pimp and prostitute.
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O’Keefe is among four men accused of trying to tamper with Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office phones.
And as many of those Republicans distanced themselves from O’Keefe on Wednesday, the accused felon’s troubles became a political issue in the 16th Congressional District race as well.

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ACORN Antagonist Disowned By Conservatives
Conservative activists backed away today from a young video-producer who was arrested with three others accused of posing as telephone repairmen in the New Orleans office of Louisiana’s Sen. Mary Landrieu.
James O’Keefe had gained renown and backing in conservative circles last year for producing an undercover videotape of ACORN workers offering advice to him and a friend posing as a pimp and prostitute.
He and three other men were arrested Monday at the federal building housing Landrieu’s office in New Orleans and accused of attempting to tamper with the senator’s telephone system. Federal authorities said two of the men posed as telephone workers with hard hats, tool belts and fluorescent vests as they entered Landrieu’s office and O’Keefe was taping them with his cell-phone. Kathy English, a spokeswoman for the US Attorney’s Office, said Wednesday a preliminary hearing on the charges against the four would be held in New Orleans on Feb 12.

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… Last weekend Hannah Giles, who played the prostitute in the ‘Pimp and Pro’ ACORN videos, and Andrew Breitbart, who strategized the release of the videos, lectured on ‘guerrilla warfare’ at a Young America’s Foundation conference in San Barbara, California.
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In conducting the sensational “Pimp and Pro” ACORN sting trumpeted by Breitbart and Fox News, O’Keefe surreptitiously videotaped. In the District of Columbia and New York, one-party consent is lawful, but in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Florida and California, one-party consent is not enough.
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That’s not bad news only for the stars of the “Pimp and Pro” videos.
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Bottom line: Breitbart, BigGovernment and Fox News appear to be safe in publishing the “Pimp and Pro” story, because, in the words of the majority opinion in Bartnicki v. Vopper, the interest in “removing an incentive for parties to intercept private conversations–does not justify applying” a statute prohibiting surreptitious recording “to an otherwise innocent disclosure of public information.”

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On the international front, girls and women subject to sex trafficking and exploitation are perceived as victims. However, in the U.S., they are cast aside as “hos,” “prostitutes” and “bad girls” — and now, in New Orleans, as sex offenders.
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Perversely, it is vulnerable girls and women — and not the men — who end up being criminalized. Prostitution is the leading reason for girls’ involvement in the criminal justice system. Girls are not being detained for violent offenses, or because they are now becoming the new gangbangers or murderers. Girls are put behind bars for being raped and sexually exploited by pimps and the men who purchase them for the night. Unlike the international landscape of nonprofits set up to rescue and provide services for sex-trafficked victims, here in the U.S., there are few such safe-haven or trauma-based programs.

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Filmmaker James O’Keefe and three other men have been charged with been charged with entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony, according to Justin Elliott of TPM Muckraker. At RH Reality Check, Rachel Larris notes that, if convicted, the four could face up to 10 years in prison.
Like chum in the conservative shark tank
Landrieu, a conservative Democrat, negotiated an extra $100 million in Medicaid funds for Louisiana in exchange for allowing the health care bill to come to the senate floor. Accepting health care for the poor in the interest of health reform was like chum in the conservative shark tank.
Rush Limbaugh called her the most expensive prostitute of all time. “She may be easy, but she’s not cheap,” crowed Glenn Beck. It got so bad that Democrats call on Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) was called upon to denounce the chorus of conservatives attacking his fellow Louisiana senator as a prostitute. (Correction: Vitter did not call Landrieu a prostitute.)

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