On September 10, James O'Keefe released a two part video via YouTube and BigGovernment.com, a new website by Andrew Breitbart (Breitbart.TV, Breitbart.com). The videos (provided below) depicted two employees at the ACORN office in Baltimore, Maryland giving advice to a supposed law student and his prostitute girlfriend. The ACORN employees coached the couple on setting up a prostitution ring, human trafficking, tax evasion, and tax fraud. In their official response, Scott Levenson, spokesperson for ACORN's national offices, said "the portrayal is false and defamatory and an attempt at 'gotcha journalism.'" He claimed the couple had attempted the same set-up at at least three other offices, and failed to produce the same results. Levenson said, "ACORN wants to see the full video before commenting further." While this has not been made publicly available, the full audio and a transcript were published less than an hour after the videos hit the web.
ACORN Incident Not So Isolated
On September 10, James O'Keefe released a two part video via YouTube and BigGovernment.com, a new website by Andrew Breitbart (Breitbart.TV, Breitbart.com). The videos (provided below) depicted two employees at the ACORN office in Baltimore, Maryland giving advice to a supposed law student and his prostitute girlfriend. The ACORN employees coached the couple on setting up a prostitution ring, human trafficking, tax evasion, and tax fraud. In their official response, Scott Levenson, spokesperson for ACORN's national offices, said "the portrayal is false and defamatory and an attempt at 'gotcha journalism.'" He claimed the couple had attempted the same set-up at at least three other offices, and failed to produce the same results. Levenson said, "ACORN wants to see the full video before commenting further." While this has not been made publicly available, the full audio and a transcript were published less than an hour after the videos hit the web.
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