1) The CFO’s timing of complaints against O’Keefe is hugely suspect
2) Several of the CFO’s complaints are strange; O’Keefe has spent large amounts of money raising HUGE amounts of money and has created large, continually growing surpluses for ProjectVeritas very apparently by having PV succeed fantastically in its mission.
3) Whatever legitimate objections O’Keefe may have to the complains of the CFO, his firing of the CFO is a huge, screaming no-no. That’s just not how you do things.
4) The Board of Directors horribly (deliberately?) botched responding to O’Keefe’s illegal firing of the CFO.
5) At a time when the Board should’ve been fantastically careful about dotting every i and crossing every t, they were instead at best sloppy and at worst downright deceitful and in cover-up mode by the time O’Keefe responded to their actions publicly.
6) The Board should resign. Their continued presence is a grave harm to the credibility of PV. A board such as this is a volunteer position. Rather than get paid, such a board is usually composed of massive donors. If they actually care for the organization, they should be replaced, preferably by the oldest major willing and trusted donors. Even if they were perfectly in the right for their actions, why NOT resign?
7) The new board should negotiate for the return of James O’Keefe and the removal of the CFO.
And it stinks that the board contacted JOK by phone to give him the news when they knew he would be boarding a plane — literally — and would be unable to discuss it. The stewardess practically had to force him to turn off his phone for takeoff
These are some nasty unprofessional people.