Wisconsin DOJ: James O'Keefe's Project Veritas tape did not show election law violations

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Source: Milwaukee-Journal Sentinal



Patrick Marley , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 12:26 p.m. CT April 25, 2017 | Updated 52 minutes ago



MADISON – Covert videos of Democratic activists released in the run-up to last year’s presidential election showed no violations of Wisconsin laws, a review by the attorney general’s office found.

The blunt conclusion is at odds with how Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel initially reacted to the videos by conservative provocateur James O’Keefe, who has a track record of mischaracterizing his recordings and was found guilty of a misdemeanor in 2010 over one of his operations.

Schimel’s office released a statement in October calling the actions by Democrats on the undercover videos “apparent violations of the law” and saying Schimel was “very concerned” about them.

But one of Schimel’s assistants came to a very different conclusion when he reviewed the recordings.

“Based on all the available facts I do not believe there is any basis to conclude that the videos demonstrate or suggest violations of Wisconsin criminal laws,” Assistant Attorney General Roy Korte wrote in a Jan. 31 memo ending the investigation.........



Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2017/04/25/wisconsin-doj-james-okeefes-project-veritas-tape-did-not-show-election-law-violations/100885192/

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Although happened in WI-this is of national interest because O'Keefe has pulled these stunts in other states (a few listed in article). Problem is-here is WI, we have a Repug Attorney General who wanted to make a big deal of the tape-even though he and his assistance had evidence early on that there was no there there!

Schimel --the WI Attorney Gen. is a sick soul-always willing to use taxpayer money to try to find something to blame onto Democrats!2

[emulatorloo]

1. Another disingenuous Republican who pretends O'Keefe stuff is "real"

Anybody with half a brain knows by now that O'Keefe's "work" is outright fabrication

[Iggo]

2. Phew! Just in time!

[Gothmog]

3. O'Keefe has become a joke

[LisaM]

4. Why isn't that jackass in jail?

Gad, I am tired of election interference. If elections were fair and square, we would not be wasting all our time squabbling over our message, which most of the country agrees with, anyway. It's allowing for a tyranny of the minority.

[diva77]

6. Absolutely!! +1000

[Kingofalldems]

5. Lock that punkass O'Keefe up.

[jodymarie aimee]

7. He was shadowing Russ

and doing all manner of fuckery here.

[chowder66]

8. You know, if he wanted to really be famous all he would have to do is

turn the hidden cameras toward the republican party. There is plenty of ripe pickings there and it would most likely turn out to be valid. However, his hatred of Democrats is instead his motivating force. He would also most likely be thrown in jail in a heartbeat.

[mikeysnot]

9. Bite the hand that feeds?

He knows where his meal ticket comes from...