Dirty Trickster James O’Keefe Earned $405,000 From Project Veritas In 2021
Let’s be clear: Project Veritas is no charity. It’s a right-wing smear operation, and not a particularly competent one. Exhibit A in that regard is O’Keefe’s exorbitant compensation.
The nugget about O’Keefe’s 2021 payout was buried in a New York Times article about the $20,512 in “excess benefits” to O’Keefe reported in an IRS filing. Apparently, O’Keefe got Project Veritas to shell out $20,512 for “Project Veritas staff helping film behind the scenes and staff who were on site to accommodate James,” in his starring role in Oklahoma, performed at a farm in Virginia, according to Project Veritas’ executive director.
In fact, that’s a paltry sum compared to the big bucks O’Keefe seems to be costing Project Veritas. From The Times:
Between 2014 and 2021, Project Veritas’s revenue grew to $20.7 million, from $2.4 million, tax filings show.
But the latest filing shows that, in 2021, the group’s expenses also grew rapidly, to $20.6 million.