NEW YORK (AP) — Federal agents searched the New York homes of people tied to the conservative group Project Veritas months after the group received a diary that a tipster claimed belonged to President Joe Biden’s youngest daughter, its leader said Friday.
In a video posted on YouTube, James O’Keefe said his organization had received a grand jury subpoena and said current and former Project Veritas employees had their homes searched by federal agents.
The conservative group is known for using hidden cameras and hiding identities to try to ensnare journalists in embarrassing conversations and to reveal supposed liberal bias.
Gregg Jarrett, Fox News, questions federal role in this situation.
An FBI spokesman confirmed that agents had conducted “court authorized law enforcement activity” at an apartment in Manhattan and an address in Mamaroneck in Westchester County. The U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan declined to comment.
O’Keefe said his group never threatened anyone or “engaged in any illegal conduct.” He said there was “no doubt Project Veritas acted appropriately at each and every step.”
In the video, O’Keefe says that his group was contacted late last year by “tipsters” who had claimed to have a copy of Ashley Biden’s diary. The tipsters said the diary had been “abandoned in a room” after she left the room, O’Keefe said, adding that the tipsters said the diary had “explosive allegations against then-candidate Joe Biden.”
He said the group’s lawyers had been in contact with the Justice Department before the searches, which were first reported by The New York Times, and had “conveyed unassailable facts that demonstrate Project Veritas’ lack of involvement in criminal activity and/or criminal intent.”
O’Keefe said the tipsters who had provided the diary had contacted the group and at the time said they were also negotiating with another organization to sell the information. Ultimately, Project Veritas did not publish information from the diary, in part because the group could not determine if it belonged to Ashley Biden, or if the information was authentic, he said.
O’Keefe said his group tried to return the diary to a lawyer for Ashely Biden and later provided it to law enforcement, though he did not specific which agency the group contacted.
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This family is bigger and more evil then any crime family to ever exist. The power is in Gods hands and when these evil evil evil people have their judgement day they will see they have no where to go but to hell. If someone has been ordered to act on their job that they know is against the law and Gods expectations for decency, they will pay eternally because God does not accept excuses for wrongdoing even at the orders of an employer.
THE FBI is worse for this nation, than EVERY mafia mob out there that ever existed.
this only happens under democrat rule.
miami fla. elian gonzalez was taken by imperial storm troopers from his uncles house and sent back to cuba a commie nation.
waco texas the branch davidians were not bothering anyone and yes d.koresh was crazy but that does not give the feds under bill clinton
the right to storm that compund with military force and burn it to the ground.
ruby ridge is another one.
all under demoncrat rule.
And another common denominator.. NO ONE IN CHARGE, ever gets punished.
While you’re out for truth, justice, and the American way—when are you going to seriously delve into Hunter’s laptop?? Where there is clear cause for the FBI to investigate something—they can’t be found—but take somebody trying to uncover the truth—they’re viewed as enemies of the state—they have to be tracked down. Take their campaign against those who were considered suspects in the Jan 6th “insurrection”.
The Socialist Democrat Party State is in rule of the U.S..
The “Socialist Democrat Party State” political officers, Gestapo, Woke and Cancel Culture are just getting started.
You will obey, be loyal and support the policies of the “Socialist Democrat Party State” or you will be classified as “Enemies of the State”.
24 Aug. 2020 – Monday on MSNBC’s “Live,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
referred to President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters as
“domestic enemies” and “enemies of the State”.
This traitorous, dishonorable, dishonest, immoral, socialist Democrat Party has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
HELL will freeze over, and our sun will go nova, BEFORE ANY Investigation into hunter’s laptop is EVER conducted…
More federal money being wasted on feral things it was never designed to spend money upon. If this was a Trump’s daughter’s journal it would have been published immediately, not covered in a media blanket of obfuscation like Hunter’s laptop. Lesson learned, never put anything into writing or in a recording or on camera that you don’t want the world to see. Sooner or later the truth gets freed to reveal the dark sides of every person’s moon who only want the light side to be seen. Appears there are more craters on the Biden family moon than the face of the man in the moon which sometimes looks more like a Muslim crescent than an American Harvest moon.
Yet nothing is done when the Trump campaign was spied on by the Obama Admin.
Of course not. THE FBI WAS THE ONE DOING the spying.
Am I the only one that didn’t know that FJB has a daughter?
I knew he has one criminal son, an adult granddaughter that he kisses on the mouth and a dead son that he tries to get sympathy for any time a public figure or a soldier dies.
Oh, I forgot Dr. Jill, his keeper and the man eating dog.
I certainly didn’t before this article.
There was LBJ,,,now FJB,,,,,love it
These “raids” are visible fear mongering and political reprisals for exposing the truth at its worst. Those who authorized many raids of many private citizens based solely on a “tip” should be fined, jailed, or otherwise severely punished to discourage all Democrat crooks who want to do the same to US citizens.
Exactly. HOW IS IT an “Anonymous tip”, was sufficient evidence to gain a warrant in the first bloody place!
AND how can one tip, GRANT A WARRANT FOR MULTIPLE PEOPLES HOMES!?!?!?