James O'Keefe

James O'Keefe is an independent American journalist from Westwood, NJ. He is notable for producing the undercover videos exposing ACORN's corruption and Planned Parenthood's racism and pro-abortion stance.

Planned Parenthood

In 2006, O'Keefe had Lila Rose, a pro-life advocate, go to Planned Parenthood and pose as a pregnant teenager while O'Keefe secretly taped. The staff attempted to persuade Lila to lie about her age so that she could be eligible for an abortion. When the tape was released, Tennessee lawmakers voted to end a $721,000 contract with Planned Parenthood.

In 2007, O'Keefe recorded audio of a visit to Planned Parenthood where he posed as a donor. He requested that his donation would fund abortions only for minorities, to which Planned parenthood vice-president Autumn Kersey laughed and said it was understandable. When the audio was released, Kersey was suspended and Planned Parenthood apologized for their staff's actions.

ACORN

O'Keefe, along with Hannah Giles, posed as a pimp and a prostitute at many ACORN offices asking for housing arrangements to run their human smuggling business. Unsurprisingly, the ACORN staff gave advice, despite being told by the pair that they planned to smuggle young girls from El Salvador. Even more shocking is that the pair was given advice on how to avoid paying taxes on the smuggled girls income. Video excerpts were released, which resulted in the U.S. House of Representatives voting to end all federal funding of ACORN. The U.S. Senate, the IRS, and the Census Bureau also all voted to end funding for ACORN.