Posted on 08/30/2023 8:46:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Project Veritas board members George Skakel and John Garvey have reportedly resigned as of Tuesday. This after a massive August 17 firing by new CEO Hannah Giles who eliminated most of the investigative reporters, leaving a skeleton crew of 18 primarily comprised of fundraisers.
Garvey resigned earlier this month, but the Connecticut Sentinel confirmed the resignation with management. Skakel accepted a position of Chief Financial Officer in a secret board meeting earlier this month.
Garvey and Skakel were long-serving members of that body. Board member Joe Barton is still with the company.
Prior to the mass firing, Skakel was at a meeting with a Project Veritas attorney on August 9 during which the board voted to "no longer indemnify" investigative journalists Spencer Meads and Eric Cochran who had acquired hefty legal fees as a result of their work with the organization.
Cochran and Meads are currently facing a federal investigation over their involvement in reporting on Ashley Biden's diary, which came to the organization via a source.
Giles, who took the CEO position in June, has overseen the demise of Project Veritas, the investigative journalism organization founded by James O'Keefe more than a decade ago. Giles was part of O'Keefe's first undertaking on an Obama era housing program that sought to help underprivileged Americans buy homes.
O'Keefe posed as a pimp, Giles as his prostitute, and the two enlisted mortgage group Acorn to help them gain a mortgage for a home in which they could ply their sex work trade.
The board of Project Veritas forced O'Keefe out of the company he founded, gaining support from employees over concerns about his use of Veritas funds allegedly for personal use, and in one case allegedly eating a pregnant woman's sandwich. Veritas was said to be doing an internal investigation into O'Keefe's spending, but when that investigation concluded, they refused to release the results.
A new group of journalists called SageOps, made up of Veritas alum, confronted Giles with camera and mic, only to have their ask for the reveal of audit results to be denied.
"Did James commit self inurement?" SageOps asked Giles and colleague Joe Barton, who remains on the board.
"The one thing that I will talk about is the audit report," Barton said. "The board decided not to release that. No one's going to see that except for the board for reasons that do not have to be disclosed."
The letter from employees to the board, which resulted in O'Keefe's ouster, read "The undersigned is troubled and frustrated with James’ management style and business acumen," the letter began. "These behaviors and actions are antithetical to our core values, and it came to a head this week."
Issues cited include wrongful termination, lack of transparency in decision-making, as well we O'Keefe being difficult to work with, belligerent, and mean, with "bullying" listed as a concern.
Veritas has been unable to regain its foothold or its relevancy since O'Keefe's departure. O'Keefe has founded a new media enterprise called OMG dedicated to citizen journalism.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Matthew Tyrmand was still on the board, but he has resigned.
I don’t recall if they did.
Mission accomplished.................
George Skakel?
Part of the Skakel family descended from Ethel Kennedy’s father?
100%
Mission accomplished they do an exit stage left.
I’d start with Mitch McConnell, but I’m guessing they will start as far to the conservative side as possible.
But to be honest, most people from the past who were into this gimmick....wanted CNN, WaPo and Facebook to be the targets.
I think that was the whole point. To simply put O’Keefe out of business.
Their Soviet-style mistake was in not having him murdered, which I have no doubt they would have done if they weren’t so afraid of being caught.
Skakel? Has a familiar, democrat sound.
They killed PV from the inside. That was the plan all along.
“The letter from employees to the board, which resulted in O’Keefe’s ouster, read “The undersigned is troubled and frustrated with James’ management style”
well, given they have all now been fired, they will no longer be troubled and frustrated by management style at veritas ...
100%
damn, never i looked at it that way...
Isn’t OMG doing just fine as the new version of PV?
Just here for the hanna giles pics ;)
Yes, but he hasn’t done a lot since....................
When you remove the pillar upon which an organization is built, then the organization will fail/fall.
That’s what happened to Project Veritas. Meanwhile, O’Keefe and his new organization, OMG, is continuing to do the hard work exposing the left.
“OMG: Cops called on James O’Keefe’s citizen journalists after New Jersey school board claims they look ‘Trumpish’”
@BobbyHReports
BREAKING: Project Veritas suspends all operations effective immediately.
CEO @HannahMGiles and Jen Kiyak of Human Resources cite financial ruin as reason for additional layoffs on 9/20/23 leaving merely a handful of employees left.
All investigations halted as of today.
I don’t remember who or what group was responsible for the failure of a once very successful operation, but what I think is:
THIS...ALL OF THIS...WAS DELIBERATE AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE “DIMISE” OF PROJECT VERTAS.
What a terrible, terrible shame, whoever it/they was/were who wanted to SILENCE O’KEEFE in the worse way...
And they DID it...and they got away with it.
I certainly hope he BOUNCES BACK.
No surprise.
He’ll be fine.
His OMG Corp, Okeefe Media Group, is gonna be just as great!...............
Great news!!!
Thanks, Red.
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