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It is not surprising that the Wikipedia entry for The Centurion contains a long section, labeled, “Controversial Antics,” including affirmative action bake sales — a favorite of campus conservatives in which baked goods are sold for different prices, depending on the race of the purchaser — satirical headlines, like, post-Hurricane Katrina, “Mayor of New Orleans Doesn’t Care About Black People,” and a videotaped confrontation with Rutgers deans over the desire of Centurion editors to hang American flags in every classroom.
The world of conservative and mainstream journalism is replete with alumni of these conservative college newspapers and journals, but perhaps none created such a big splash so soon as O’Keefe did with his ACORN video sting last year.
O’Keefe and Hannah Giles rocked the political world with secretly taped videos that brought the community organization ACORN to its knees. Dressed outlandishly as a pimp and his prostitute, O’Keefe and Giles managed to produce and post videos that yielded shocking images of ACORN employees in a few cities offering them advice on how to pursue their illegal business venture while still gaining government tax advantages.

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In what some Democrats are calling the ”Louisiana Watergate,” four young conservative activists — one of them a known political prankster — were arrested this week and accused of trying to tamper with the telephones in Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s New Orleans office.
But two days after their arrest, neither the FBI nor federal prosecutors would say what the defendants were up to or whether they were part of some larger conspiracy.
Authorities said two of the defendants posed as telephone repairmen in hard hats, fluorescent vests and tool belts and asked to see the phones at Landrieu’s office; one of them had a tiny camera in his helmet. A third man is alleged to have waited outside in a car with a listening device to pick up transmissions. The fourth, James O’Keefe, used his cell phone to try to capture video of the scene inside, authorities said.
Last year, O’Keefe, a 25-year-old self-described investigative journalist, posed as a pimp in the hidden-camera videos that embarrassed the community organizing group ACORN.

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Related Anti-ACORN activist arrested in incident at Sen. Landrieu’s office James O’Keefe, Stan Dai Joseph Basel Photos Mary Landrieu Stories California ACORN breaks off into new nonprofit group ACORN circles the wagons ‘Pimp‘ in ACORN video shares story See more stories » X ACORN scaling back or shutting down in many cities By Mark Silva January 27, 2010 | 6:19 p.m. E-mail Print Text Size Reporting from Washington – Conservative pundits and activists on Wednesday backed away from a young video producer who was arrested with three other men on suspicion of illegally entering the New Orleans office of Democratic Sen. Mary L. Landrieu posing as telephone repairmen. James O’Keefe III, 25, gained celebrity in conservative circles last year for undercover videotapes he made at several offices of the liberal community organizing group ACORN, in which workers appear to give advice on tax evasion, human smuggling and child prostitution. O’Keefe and the others were arrested Monday and charged with entering federal property under false p …

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James O’Keefe, who recently obtained fame through his series of ACORN videos designed to expose corruption in that organization, has now discredited his own work with a bungled attempt at committing federal crimes. O’Keefe, along with three other individuals, was arrested for entering federal property under false pretenses in an attempt to tamper with the phone lines of Senator Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana. The office is in the Hale boggs Federal Building in New Orleans.
O’Keefe became known for a series of hidden camera videos filmed at various ACORN offices, in which he posed as a pimp and Hannah Giles posed as a prostitute. The videos led to the loss of federal funding for ACORN and to the organization being largely discredited in the public eye.
Arrested with O’Keefe were Joseph Basel, Stan Dai, and Robert Flanagan. Basel and Flanagan entered Senator Landrieu’s office by posing as phone repairmen after O’Keefe had already entered the office, apparently to use his cell phone to record the event on video.

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On Monday, conservative activist James O’Keefe and three others were arrested by the FBI and “charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.” The gang was caught in what appeared to be an attempt wiretap Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) office in New Orleans. O’Keefe, who had been trained by several well-funded conservative institutes and had been working for right-wing blogger Andrew Breitbart, gained notoriety for dressing up as a pimp and videotaping ACORN staffers offering to help the supposed pimp and his prostitutes secure funding for a brothel.
Last October, 31 House Republicans introduced a congressional resolution honoring O’Keefe for his efforts against ACORN. Rep. Steve King (R-IA), one of the resolution’s cosponsors, has fought to ban funding to an ACORN affiliate and has been one of O’Keefe’s most vocal fans. At a press conference, ThinkProgress asked King if he would withdraw his support for the resolution, given news of O’Keefe’s arrest. But King dodged the question repeatedly, at one point defending O’Keefe, t …

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Salt Lake GOP Dumps Pimp-Wiretapper O’Keefe as Speaker After Arrest
(ChattahBox)—-James O’Keefe, 25, a radical right-wing activist, “filmmaker” and ACORN slayer was until his arrest on Monday, the darling Boy Wonder of Conservatives, Fox News, and even 31 Republican congressman who co-sponsored a resolution praising O’Keefe for his controversial undercover filming of ACORN field offices. O’Keefe along with three other men, entered the offices of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) in Louisiana under false pretenses and attempted to interfere with the Senator’s phone lines. The group of intruders, including O’Keefe, were charged by the FBI with “entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony.” And the Salt Lake County Republicans announced today that they were replacing the would-be wiretapper James O’Keefe as the keynote speaker for their Feb. 4 Lincoln Day Dinner. County GOP Chairman Thomas Wright said, “we don’t want to be involved with that.”

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James O’Keefe, center, and Stan Dai walk out of the St. Bernard Parish jail in Chalmette, La., Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010. O’Keefe, a conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN, is one of four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

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NEW ORLEANS Linked by their backgrounds in conservative campus activism, the four young men charged with tampering with the telephone system of Senator Mary Landrieu appeared at the offices of federal court here on Wednesday, as their attorneys prepared their defenses for federal charges that carry the possibility of prison sentences.
The four were arrested Monday in New Orleans and charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony, according to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Feb. 12, and they remain free on bond.
The best known of the four was James O’Keefe, 25, a conservative activist who gained fame last year by secretly recording members of the community group Acorn giving him advice on how to set up a brothel. In the Acorn videos, Mr. O’Keefe and an associate, Hannah Giles, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, secretly filmed themselves seeking and receiving financial advice for a brothel from Acorn workers.

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Finley was nominated last week to be U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. She would replace acting U.S. Attorney William Flanagan. Vitter is also holding up other federal nominees in Louisiana over Letten. Letten was appointed by President George W. Bush, and has held the Eastern District post since April 2001. Both Vitter and Landrieu have urged Obama to retain Letten.
Flanagan, a career prosecutor, became the top federal prosecutor in the Shreveport, La., office after Donald Washington resigned earlier this month. Robert Flanagan, the prosecutor’s son, along with conservative activists James O’Keefe, Joseph Basel and Stan Dai were charged this week with entering federal property under false pretenses for the purposes of committing a felony. O’Keefe made national headlines last year when he posed as a pimp and allegedly received instructions on how to obtain housing aid for a purported brothel from staffers for activist group ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now).

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We initially covered the ACORN lawsuit in “ACORN Sues Congress Over Defunding Legislation.” The lawsuit directly pertained to House and Senate Appropriations Resolutions which singled out ACORN for a cut-off of federal funds. These were passed after James O’Keefe’s illicitly taped videos emerged, purporting to depict some ACORN employees giving advice to individuals posing as a prostitute and a pimp.
As Brad Friedman noted in “ACORN Cleared YET AGAIN of Wrongdoing,” former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger issued an independent report following the release of the tapes, finding incidents of mismanagement by ACORN but “no criminal wrongdoing.” CCR noted that Harshbarger, who reviewed the “complete transcripts,” concluded that “the infamous videotapes had been doctored and fully misrepresented the actions of the workers shown.”
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Meanwhile, in New Orleans, James O’Keefe, who posed as the pimp in the ACORN sting video, along with three others, was arrested and “charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony,” in relation to an alleged plot to tamper with the telephone system in the office of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA).

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