Posted on 09/18/2009 7:21:41 AM PDT by jeffq73
Former ACORN workers in the city are planning to file a civil complaint against the makers of the video, according to the website Investigative Voice.City state's attorney Patricia Jessamy said on WBAL's Shari Elicker Show that she could not prosecute based on restrictions for evidence obtained illegally.
Maryland law requires two party consent to be recorded.
Former employees of the beleaguered community activist group ACORN are planning to file a criiminal complaint in Baltimore against the creators of the series of videos that have spurred outrage against the organization, knowledgable sources have told Investigative Voice.The filing could come as soon as Friday afternoon, sources said.
The criminal complaint will allege that recordings of the group’s employees giving advice on how to evade taxes and house underage South American sex workers to journalists posing as a pimp and prostitute were obtained illegally.
The criminal complaint is expected to name both James O’Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, along with the owner of the website Breitbart, which initially released the videos.
ACORN is also contemplating a civil suit seeking an injunction aginst O'Keefe and Giles to prevent them from distributing the videos, according to an an email.
Maybe Maryland can explain why ACORN was still in operation in the state without a charter.
WTF?
So, I guess it won't be too long before the burglar sues the alarm company because they got caught?
You KNEW THIS WAS COMING....
Exposing Democrat crimes is a crime, doncha know.
Discovery should be interesting—for us. (Devastating for them.)
Bring on the pre-trial discovery. This will expose the fraud of leftist political activism front and center for all the world to see.
It will keep the story alive for months. Good.
Thank goodness for people who are too stupid to know when to quit.
“two party” consent is BADLY worded ,, it actually means “all parties” ...
This is great ,, it’ll keep it in the news for quite a while.
On second thought probably not. Never underestimate the MSM's biased agenda to ignore or bury in back pages stories that are damaging to the left.
Yes, please, go ahead and file. I can hardly wait until they get to the discovery phase of the case! We will finally be able to get our eyes and hands on all of the incriminating documents.
An organization operating illegally dispensing advise on how to operate an illegal organization. Perfect....
sue, sue, how can they seriously say they will sue when it is their group which is corrupted to the core?
This is the problem with the radical left, they never ever look at themselves and realise that they might be wrong.
“It will keep the story alive for months. Good.”
Exactly. Then everyone will be aware of the ACORN/COI thugs around 2010 election.
The part on the under-aged prostitution ring begins about 4 minutes and 30 seconds into the 35 min audio segment. And it continues on at about 11 mins into it (following other news). Note: you can slide the bar on the audio player over to the 4:30 mark in order to skip pass the other stuff.
They are pulling a stunt. The are having the “workers” file the suit.
Discovery on ACORN would be outside the “workers.”
That’s their new scam. Protect ACORN, have the suit filed in the name of the “workers” who they fired.
See how nice that is?
So I assume the fringe media will weigh on on FNC’s side, right.
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