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O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 1:43:04 PM

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Must not be the crime of the century after all.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Federal prosecutors filed reduced charges Friday against conservative activist James O'Keefe and three others who were accused of trying to tamper with the phones in Sen. Mary Landrieu's New Orleans office.

The new charges are contained in a bill of information, which can only be filed with a defendant's consent and typically signals a plea deal. The new filing charges the four with entering a federal building under false pretenses, a misdemeanor. They had been arrested Jan. 25 on felony charges
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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 1:51:33 PM

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And,as it turns out niether was the whole Acorn scandal,heh Sanity? I mean if the bar is set at exactly what charges are filed ,dropped etc etc...than you must be prepared to admit that the whole "pimp" case was nothing more than a tempest in a teapot?

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 1:52:06 PM

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The new charges are contained in a bill of information, which can only be filed with a defendant's consent and typically signals a plea deal. The new filing charges the four with entering a federal building under false pretenses, a misdemeanor. They had been arrested Jan. 25 on felony charges.

O'Keefe, a videographer famous for wearing a pimp costume in a stunt that embarrassed the ACORN community organizing group, has said the group was trying to investigate complaints that constituents calling Landrieu's office couldn't get through to criticize her support of a health care reform bill.

J. Garrison Jordan, a lawyer for another defendant, Robert Flanagan, said his client has "an agreement worked out with the government" but wouldn't elaborate or confirm that the others also have reached a deal with prosecutors.

"I think it's a fair resolution to the charges, and I'm happy with the agreement we've worked out," he said.

Lawyers for the other three defendants didn't immediately return calls. A spokesman for Landrieu said he couldn't immediately comment, and a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's office in New Orleans would not comment on a possible plea deal.

Your link. If they did nothing wrong, there would not be a need for a plea deal, now would there.

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 1:53:30 PM

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They pleading guilty as part of a plea. Its not uncommon for first offences to be reduced to misdemeanors. It saves taxpayers a lot of money.

It does not indicate that the prosecutor's case was weak. It generally means it is rock solid and the defence took a plea because going to trial meant a sure conviction.

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 1:56:39 PM

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Nevermind

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 2:29:25 PM

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I second that

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 2:30:31 PM

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What do you second...the "nevermind"?

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 2:52:06 PM

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Oh thank God.

I knew he wasn't guilty.

Wait.............?

Isn't a misdemeanor still a crime?

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 2:57:31 PM

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So start a thread.....and than disappear from said thread? Curious.

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 2:57:33 PM

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

Full article at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EMHBHG1&show_article=1

And just imagine, we have this all posted for us on Andy's website.

The person who instigated this fiasco.

How are those lawsuits against Breitbart going Sanity?

Any updates?

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 3:01:30 PM

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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

So start a thread.....and than disappear from said thread? Curious.

Mike, he has a really big tree he has to look after.

It's a lot of responsibility, give him some time.

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 3:08:16 PM

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RE: O'Keefe & Co. Charges Reduced - 3/26/2010 3:14:23 PM

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On advice of counsel and friends I have no comment to make where Sanity's relationship with that tree is concerned.

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