Yahoo News reports:
Conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and his former organization Project Veritas have settled a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania postmaster after the group spread a Postal Service worker’s false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
A lawyer who represented Robert Weisenbach, the Erie postmaster who filed the lawsuit in state court, confirmed that it had been settled on undisclosed terms.
O’Keefe and Project Veritas had boosted the claims of Richard Hopkins, a Trump supporter who worked as a mail carrier at the time and claimed that he’d heard Weisenbach make statements about illegally backdating mail-in ballots. Hopkins retracted his statement after Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., cited it in a letter to the Justice Department in 2020.
Read the full article. O’Keefe was booted from Project Veritas last year amid accusations of financial improprieties and the group has since essentially collapsed.
Conservative provocateur James O’Keefe and his former organization Project Veritas have settled a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania postmaster after the group spread a Postal Service worker’s false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election. https://t.co/q0aKXY340A
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