{"id":9921,"date":"2013-03-13T21:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T04:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9921"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:59:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T05:59:28","slug":"the-attorney-of-acorn-worker-who-won-100k-from-james-okeefe-on-todays-kpfk-bradcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9921","title":{"rendered":"The Attorney of ACORN Worker Who Won $100k From James O’Keefe on Today’s KPFK ‘BradCast’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today on my KPFK<\/a>\/Pacifica Radio show — after breaking the news about the newly elected Pope — I interviewed Eugene Iredale, attorney of the former San Diego ACORN worker Juan Carlos Vera who received a $100,000 settlement<\/a> from Rightwing con-artist James O’Keefe last week. (Vera also received $50,000 from O’Keefe’s former partner Hannah Giles in a separate settlement<\/a> last summer.)<\/p>\n

Vera’s California Invasion of Privacy Act lawsuit, filed in 2010<\/a>, stemmed from O’Keefe and Giles’ surreptitious wiretapping of a “confidential” conversation with Vera. The conversation (during which Vera played along to learn about the duo’s pretend plot to smuggle underage prostitutes into the country, so he could turn them in to law enforcement) was then deceptively edited for misleading use<\/a> in the infamous ACORN “pimp” hoax<\/a> tapes published by Andrew Breitbart and blatantly misreported by New York Times<\/i><\/a>, et al.<\/p>\n

Iredale discussed O’Keefe’s illegalities at the center of the suit; why other ACORN workers hadn’t similarly sued the three con-artists; why Breitbart was not included in Vera’s suit; why he didn’t also sue for defamation; whether these settlements can be seen as a “victory”; and much more.<\/p>\n

In the second part of today’s BradCast<\/i>, I offered my opinion<\/strike> ranted a bit on Justice Antonin Scalia’s obnoxious, not<\/i>-conservative, not<\/i>-constitutionalist, activist attempt to legislate from the bench on the landmark Voting Rights Act<\/a> during a recent Supreme Court hearing on the Act’s important and ground-breaking Section 5 provision…<\/p>\n

Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below…<\/i>
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P.S.<\/em> I invited O’Keefe to join today’s show to offer his side of the story (live and not<\/em> deceptively edited), but last night he seems to have decided he didn’t “have the guts”<\/a> to show up.<\/p>\n

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