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FBI: ACORN Gotcha Guy Busted For Bugging Senator Mary Landrieu's (D-La.) Phones
What will Fox News do now that the ACORN "pimp" is in cuffs?
The U.S. Marshals Service collared four men on Monday who were charged today by the New Orleans FBI for trying to "interfere" with Sen. Mary Landrieu's office phones. Translation: Bug the lines.
One of those nabbed was conservative gotcha artist James O'Keefe, who secretly videotaped ACORN employees last year in several cities giving him advice on how to run an underage prostitution ring. O'Keefe soon became a darling of the political far right.
But yesterday, O'Keefe was caught inside the Louisiana Democrat's Big Easy office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building with Stan Dai and two pals "falsely and fraudulently representing that they were employees of a telephone company," according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court.
Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan - who the Times-Picayune reported is the son of the acting U.S. attorney in Shreveport - were allegedly dressed in denim with reflective vests, hard hats, tool belts and lights and in Landrieu's office "for the purpose of interfering with the office's telephone system," charged FBI Agent Steven Rayes.
O'Keefe and Dai "aided and abetted" the other suspects "in the execution of the plan," Rayes alleged.
As the bogus hardhats fiddled with one office phone and then asked to see the telephone switch closet, O'Keefe raised up his own cell phone "in his hand so as to record Flanagan and Basel," the FBI said. "Neither individual is a telephone repair man."
They raised suspicions and soon the marshals arrived to restore law and order.
"Because the details of yesterday's incident are part of an ongoing investigation by federal authorities, our office cannot comment at this time," said Landrieu spokesman Aaron Saunders.
Expect a First Amendment argument out of the defense. Now stop snickering!
UPDATE 6:15 PM - A law enforcement source tells The Mouth that Dai was apprehended outside the federal building in his car with a "receiver device" of some sort, possibly used to monitor either his alleged cohorts visit to Landrieu"s office or to secretly record her office"s calls.
NY Daily News
What will Fox News do now that the ACORN "pimp" is in cuffs?
The U.S. Marshals Service collared four men on Monday who were charged today by the New Orleans FBI for trying to "interfere" with Sen. Mary Landrieu's office phones. Translation: Bug the lines.
One of those nabbed was conservative gotcha artist James O'Keefe, who secretly videotaped ACORN employees last year in several cities giving him advice on how to run an underage prostitution ring. O'Keefe soon became a darling of the political far right.
But yesterday, O'Keefe was caught inside the Louisiana Democrat's Big Easy office in the Hale Boggs Federal Building with Stan Dai and two pals "falsely and fraudulently representing that they were employees of a telephone company," according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court.
Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan - who the Times-Picayune reported is the son of the acting U.S. attorney in Shreveport - were allegedly dressed in denim with reflective vests, hard hats, tool belts and lights and in Landrieu's office "for the purpose of interfering with the office's telephone system," charged FBI Agent Steven Rayes.
O'Keefe and Dai "aided and abetted" the other suspects "in the execution of the plan," Rayes alleged.
As the bogus hardhats fiddled with one office phone and then asked to see the telephone switch closet, O'Keefe raised up his own cell phone "in his hand so as to record Flanagan and Basel," the FBI said. "Neither individual is a telephone repair man."
They raised suspicions and soon the marshals arrived to restore law and order.
"Because the details of yesterday's incident are part of an ongoing investigation by federal authorities, our office cannot comment at this time," said Landrieu spokesman Aaron Saunders.
Expect a First Amendment argument out of the defense. Now stop snickering!
UPDATE 6:15 PM - A law enforcement source tells The Mouth that Dai was apprehended outside the federal building in his car with a "receiver device" of some sort, possibly used to monitor either his alleged cohorts visit to Landrieu"s office or to secretly record her office"s calls.
NY Daily News
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