Lawyer: James O’Keefe requested confidential settlement

[struggle4progress]

Posted by Erik Wemple on March 8, 2013 at 6:12 pm

The remarkable aspect of the $100,000 settlement agreement between guerrilla videographer James O’Keefe and a former ACORN staffer is not that big money is involved. It’s not that it carries an apology from O’Keefe himself. It’s that we can read each and every word of the settlement agreement.

Not that O’Keefe and his people wanted it that way. “They requested confidentiality and we said no,” says Eugene Iredale, attorney for Juan Carlos Vera, the ACORN worker who got caught up in O’Keefe’s sting in the National City, Calif., office of ACORN. It happened in August 2009, when O’Keefe and fellow stinger Hannah Giles recorded Vera “without his consent and in violation of California law,” according to a line in the settlement agreement.

Iredale says that he and his client had three conditions for the settlement: “One, any settlement has to be public. Second, it has to be at least six figures. We didn’t want some claims that it was nuisance, cost of doing business, so it has to be $100,000, not a penny less. The third thing was that it had to include an apology,” says Iredale.

Those conditions didn’t necessarily bring about the desired outcomes, in Iredale’s view. O’Keefe’s lawyer, after all, called the payout a “nuisance settlement.” And of the apology, Iredale quipped, “Like everything O’Keefe does, it’s half-assed and insincere” ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/03/08/lawyer-okeefe-requested-confidential-settlement/

[malaise]

1. Has Joe Scum mentioned this?

He sure attacked ACORN

[niyad]

2. "guerrilla videographer"? what, they couldn't say lying sack of fecal matter???

[Blue Owl]

5. Calling him a gorilla photographer would be an insult to all simians

n/t

[niyad]

6. you are correct. our gorilla brothers and sisters would get a wee tad upset.

[geckosfeet]

3. $100k? Big money!? Haw haw haw. They haven't loss their sense of humor.

Hound this dirtbag to his grave.

[frylock]

4. half-assed and insincere

[alcibiades_mystery]

7. The fact that he had to pay off the 100 large, and that it's public that he had to do so

and so he is exposed as the punk motherfucker that he is...all that is just fine with me.