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Landrieu Phone-Tampering Scandal
Before Caper, O'Keefe And Co. Crashed At House Of Activist 'Mentor'
Justin Elliott | February 1, 2010, 11:12AM
From left to right: Joseph Basel, Stan Dai, Robert Flanagan, and James O'Keefe
A 28-year-old Loyola law school student and conservative activist named Ben Wetmore has emerged as the Fifth Beatle of the Landrieu phone-tampering case.
Wetmore, who hired alleged phone tamperer James O'Keefe at the Leadership Institute a few years back to help launch conservative media outlets on college campuses, this month offered up his New Orleans house as a crash pad for O'Keefe and co-defendants Joseph Basel and Stan Dai, the New York Times reports.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (22) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (4)Topics: American University, Ben Wetmore, James O'Keefe, Joseph Basel, Landrieu Phone-Tampering Scandal, Leadership Institute, Loyola University law school, Lucky Charms, Stan Dai
Mary Landrieu
James O'Keefe: Portrait Of An Activist As A Campus Gadfly
Justin Elliott | January 29, 2010, 1:14PM
James O'Keefe
James O'Keefe and his brand of Candid-Camera activism first appeared on the national stage with last year's ACORN pimp scandal. But the origins of O'Keefe's methods go back to his time at Rutgers, where he launched an alternative newspaper, carried out his first video sting operations, and generally cultivated an image as campus conservative gadfly.
After graduating in 2006, but before he launched the stunt video career that landed him in jail in New Orleans this week, O'Keefe became one of those recent alumni who couldn't let go, hanging around Rutgers' New Brunswick, New Jersey, campus as resident right-wing agitator.
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (150) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (4)Topics: Darren Cimillo, James O'Keefe, Jim Livingston, Landrieu Phone-Tampering Scandal, Lucky Charms, Mary Landrieu, Richard Dienst, Rutgers University, The Centurion, The Daily Targum
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