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Project Veritas sues its founder James O'Keefe

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15 pointsIronWolve6 comments

I’m not sure how anything James O’Keefe _could have realistically done_ _would not have_ wooed former donors, given that he was the public face of his previous employer and they were publicly trying to push him out of his job.

Since the HN zeitgeist believes non-competes should be illegal and side work should be owned by the employee, I’m not sure how anyone here could say that James O’Keefe did anything wrong in this case, unless your political ideology overrides your rationality.

> I’m not sure how anyone here could say that James O’Keefe did anything wrong in this case, unless your political ideology overrides your rationality.

There was all the other stuff about mistreating employees and misuse of company funds.

For the board of any nonprofit to fire the organization’s founder and star employee means either a) the star employee did something very bad, or b) the board is corrupt as hell. Given that James O’Keefe was Project Veritas’ main source of revenue and we’re heading into another election cycle I’m going to go with b) and assume 2/3rds of the board members got “D.C. Book Deals” and the lawsuit is bullshit.

Seriously, you don’t have to agree with the guy’s politics to see how ridiculous this is, especially given the timing.

I think the explanation that adheres to Occam's Razor is that he was just an awful person to work for or with, and he abused his privilege as founder. That's not a difficult thing for me to believe.

James is discussing it live right now [1] The stream will be re-playable in a couple of hours.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgm8lWKTVjE [livestream]

> During this period of time, O'Keefe was still on Project Veritas payroll, according to the lawsuit. He was kept on the board until April 24 and removed from the company entirely on May 15, the lawsuit said.

I.e. keep him neutralized until his ouster blows over, to deprive him of publicity when he tries to set up a competitor.

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