James O’Keefe is on temporary paid leave as Chairman of the company he founded. Project Veritas indicates that he is on voluntary administrative leave. Reportedly, he might be forced out on Friday.
NY Mag reports he’s on paid leave. Employees say the Board might remove him from his leadership position.
“James O’Keefe, the founder and chairman of Project Veritas, has taken a paid leave from the conservative nonprofit media organization as its board considers whether to remove him from his leadership position, according to current and former employees of the organization,” NY Mag reports.
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“O’Keefe is his organization’s guiding ideological force and onscreen face, but his status as its day-to-day manager has become uncertain amid reports of internal turmoil, lawsuits from former employees, leaks about its internal workings, and a federal investigation into its conduct in purchasing a diary stolen from Ashley Biden, the president’s daughter.
Strack’s internal message to employees made reference to what he called “a distracting time” and said that a board meeting had been held to discuss “the health of the organization” and that while “we have not come up with final solutions yet we have made a few immediate decisions.”
The message said two top Project Veritas executives, including the nonprofit’s chief financial officer, had been “reinstated.” Multiple sources said that the pair had recently been fired by O’Keefe,” NY Mag continued.
According to DC Patriot, an internal message was sent to Project Veritas employees by the executive director, Daniel Strack. He said that O’Keefe would be taking “a few weeks of well-deserved PTO.”
Strack later released a statement on behalf of the organization through a Project Veritas spokesman.
Project Veritas’ Official Response to Today’s News Reports Despite what the Corporate Media tries to portray about our organization, know this: We have never been more motivated and dedicated to our mission than now.
“Like all newsrooms at this stage, the Project Veritas Board of Directors and Management are constantly evaluating what the best path forward is for the organization,” the statement read in part. It did not directly address questions about O’Keefe’s employment status. “There are 65+ employees at Project Veritas dedicated to continuing the mission to expose corruption, dishonesty, waste, fraud, and other misconduct in both public and private institutions,” the statement read. “To our supporters: We hear you, we care about you, and we will never give up.”
That’s not very enlightening.
According to DC Patriot, the meeting to discuss removing Mr. O’Keefe as chairman is on Friday. I can’t imagine Project Veritas without him. He is Project Veritas.
I’m glad they care about us, but most of us care about James O’Keefe. I don’t even know who these people are.
Project Veritas’ Official Response to Today’s News Reports
Despite what the Corporate Media tries to portray about our organization, know this: We have never been more motivated and dedicated to our mission than now. pic.twitter.com/sB7Cz97b5M
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) February 9, 2023
There were recent problems with Big Tech. They might have affected the situation.
At the same time as Mr. O’Keefe’s leave, Twitter locked Project Veritas out of their account. Twitter put the account back. Facebook and Instagram threatened to cancel Project Veritas, possibly over a confrontation between Project Veritas reporter Chris Hartsock and YouTube VP of Global Trust & Safety after they removed the Directed Evolution investigation. They said the confrontation was harassment. Google YouTube had taken the Pfizer videos down, saying it “violates the COVID-19 misinformation policy.” They threatened to take Project Veritas down.
This is the clip in question:
BREAKING: Project Veritas Senior Reporter @Chris_Hartsock Confronts @YouTube Vice President of Global Trust & Safety Over Tech Giant’s Actions to Remove Our @Pfizer #DirectedEvolution Investigation From The Platform pic.twitter.com/ktvXRJawN2
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) February 3, 2023
After the confrontation, San Bruno issued a criminal search warrant.
BREAKING: @CityofSanBruno issues CRIMINAL search warrant against Project Veritas journalist for asking @YouTube‘s Global Head of Trust & Safety Matt Halprin questions about why YouTube removed viral #DirectedEvolution video from platform pic.twitter.com/BDOMf1wWtZ
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) February 8, 2023
We don’t know if that’s what led to the decision to remove Mr. O’Keefe.
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Update: The Sentinel updated this report with new information from NY Magazine and information about Big Tech threatening Project Veritas.
After perusing comments, it seems IS is attracting trolls.
I don’t think people realize the depth of corruption in this government. It’s not new either. Tucker Carlson did a piece on Nixon that was long overdue. Nixon called a meeting with the then cia director, I think his name was Helms, and confided in him that he (Nixon), thought there was an entity inside the federal government actively working to bring down the nation. Helms said absolutely nothing. Four days later Watergate happened, and Nixon was made to be a bad guy…then they installed the stooge Gerald Ford as president. Him and Xiden could have a competition to see whom is the most idiotic.
Kennedy was killed for the same reason. Him and his brother Bobby were working on a plan to dismantle the cia, and well, you know the rest of the story.
Elections have been rigged and the MSM has been taken control of by the deep state decades ago.
Forty years ago when you try to enlighten idiots, you got called a crazy person conspiracy theorist. But now the brain dead public is finally awakening to the fact that we’re NOT in control of our government.
This is why there is a global effort to stop Trump and the MAGA movement. Trump will expose the deep state if he gets a chance, but there’s no hope of him or any real patriot ever being elected for anything anymore.
The deep state has a death grip on everything, corporations, the military, the media, all government agencies, even the friggin entertainment business.
All this woke garbage is designed to rot the nation’s morals.
This is nothing new either. Less than half of the registered voters ever bother to vote. It made it real easy to usher in vote rigging. People have been to lazy and apathetic to bother with trivial things like getting involved with the government and voting.
We made it real easy for them to execute their plans.
The only way to fix it at this point is a civil war.
There is no secret as to who controls the government. It is Satan and those whom he has possessed and those who have sold their souls to him. We have to understand we are not fighting other humans. We are fighting Satan himself and in that fight we have the support of God,and we can do no wrong in the battle against Satan.
Nailed it!
I know there are employees or volunteers who go undercover to make some of these exposures of corruption, available for the world to see, but O’Keefe is the Andrew Breitbart of Project Veritas. You get rid of him, you may as well shut the doors and hand out severance checks, because you’re done.
The Left cover each other’s butts…the right try to take each other down. Veritas was good while it lasted. Anyway, even when Veritas provides proof, the DOJ ignores the crimes anyway.
I’m thinking this has more to do with the confrontation he had on the street with The NY Times reporter that the restaurant mayhem. James got personal during that…which is perfectly understandable, considering the subject matter..but it’s not the look this organization needs when they are trying to go after the big fish like Pfizer.
That’s silly, tell us then what look you think the organization needs. And tell us what the repercussions were of the street incident, since we see none. Exposing a corrupt reporter for his lies is a bad look? What’s this then, blaming the person exposing the corruption?
Unfortunately, Michael, you have yet to realize that PV targets those who are enrolled in the Army of Satan. They will do anything to stop being exposed for what they are: Satan’s followers.