In a statement released by her office, the Democratic senator also called claims by the men’s lawyers that their clients were trying to embarrass her staff “a clear and calculated effort to divert attention away” from the crime itself.
“The fact remains that they perpetrated a false identity scheme on building security by posing as telephone workers and attempting to manipulate the phone in her office,” the statement said, saying those involved could face up to 10 years in prison for the federal crime.
O’Keefe is the same conservative activist who dressed as a pimp last summer and visited an office of ACORN, which bills itself as an advocacy group for low- and middle-income families, to solicit advice on setting up a brothel, among other scenarios, law enforcement officials said. He secretly recorded the visits, and the videos were posted on the Internet, leading to a media firestorm.

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