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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLawyer: James O’Keefe requested confidential settlement
Posted by Erik Wemple on March 8, 2013 at 6:12 pm
The remarkable aspect of the $100,000 settlement agreement between guerrilla videographer James OKeefe and a former ACORN staffer is not that big money is involved. Its not that it carries an apology from OKeefe himself. Its that we can read each and every word of the settlement agreement.
Not that OKeefe and his people wanted it that way. They requested confidentiality and we said no, says Eugene Iredale, attorney for Juan Carlos Vera, the ACORN worker who got caught up in OKeefes sting in the National City, Calif., office of ACORN. It happened in August 2009, when OKeefe and fellow stinger Hannah Giles recorded Vera without his consent and in violation of California law, according to a line in the settlement agreement.
Iredale says that he and his client had three conditions for the settlement: One, any settlement has to be public. Second, it has to be at least six figures. We didnt want some claims that it was nuisance, cost of doing business, so it has to be $100,000, not a penny less. The third thing was that it had to include an apology, says Iredale.
Those conditions didnt necessarily bring about the desired outcomes, in Iredales view. OKeefes lawyer, after all, called the payout a nuisance settlement. And of the apology, Iredale quipped, Like everything OKeefe does, its half-assed and insincere ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/03/08/lawyer-okeefe-requested-confidential-settlement/
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Lawyer: James O’Keefe requested confidential settlement (Original Post)
struggle4progress
Mar 2013
OP
The fact that he had to pay off the 100 large, and that it's public that he had to do so
alcibiades_mystery
Mar 2013
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malaise
(267,797 posts)1. Has Joe Scum mentioned this?
He sure attacked ACORN
niyad
(112,426 posts)2. "guerrilla videographer"? what, they couldn't say lying sack of fecal matter???
Blue Owl
(49,906 posts)5. Calling him a gorilla photographer would be an insult to all simians
n/t
niyad
(112,426 posts)6. you are correct. our gorilla brothers and sisters would get a wee tad upset.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)3. $100k? Big money!? Haw haw haw. They haven't loss their sense of humor.
Hound this dirtbag to his grave.
frylock
(34,825 posts)4. half-assed and insincere
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)7. The fact that he had to pay off the 100 large, and that it's public that he had to do so
and so he is exposed as the punk motherfucker that he is...all that is just fine with me.