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View More NewsAn excerpt from today’s long decision in Democracy Partners, LLC v. O’Keefe by D.C. Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, joined by Judge Harry Edwards (read this post for more on the facts and on a separate fraud claim): Creamer [the target of a Project Veritas undercover investigation] brought those claims under the provisions of the federal and D.C. wiretapping laws that make it unlawful to secretly record a conversation with another “for the purpose of committing any crim[e] or tor[t].” The jury agreed with Creamer that Maass [a Project Veritas employee who, under false pretenses, applied for and got an…
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