Today it was reported that Project Veritas has fired all of its reporters and shuttered its operations months after the group ousted its founder, James O’Keefe, claiming that he created a hostile work environment and consumed an outsized portion of company resources.
The news was broken by former Project Veritas employee Bobby Harr, who is now an independent reporter. Harr wrote that Project Veritas suspended its operations, effective immediately, on September 21.
Harr claimed that CEO Hannah Giles, who was involved in the ACORN sting video with O’Keefe and returned to the company in his absence, reportedly cited “financial ruin” as the reason for the final layoffs, and reported that all investigations have been halted.
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.
— Bobby Harr (@BobbyHReports) September 20, 2023
Reporting from The Post Millennial indicates those remaining employees who were not fired in August were terminated in a mass firing on Wednesday, adding that those who remained until that point were mostly administrative staff, or those charged with fundraising.
A post that was briefly published, then deleted, on the official Project Veritas X/Twitter account on August 17 read “SOS Hannah Giles just fired us all.” The company did not comment on the post’s meaning.
Another source told the outlet that “the donations dried up” after O’Keefe left the group. The source claimed Project Veritas’s board was “desperate to bring Hannah on board because they thought it would be cute but the problem is she’s a charlatan and a fraud.”
O’Keefe has not responded directly to the statement, nor has his new O’Keefe Media Group (OMG), but he did share a statement provided to MediaIte by his lawyer on X, formerly Twitter.
“It appears that in the few months since Project Veritas ousted James, it continued to spend money at the same rate, blowing through the many millions of dollars James had previously raised for it – despite PV having no new sources of fundraising,” said attorney Jeffrey Lichtman to the outlet. “This is highly suspect and we would welcome a full audit of PV’s finances to learn where that money was actually spent.”
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) September 21, 2023
Project Veritas commissioned an outside firm to create a lengthy report on O’Keefe’s alleged wrongdoing after he was ousted. The company chose not to make it public, but it was later leaked by former Project Veritas employees.
The report made a series of unfounded claims about O’Keefe, including that he instructed employees to engage in illegal behavior and routinely belittled subordinates. It is unclear how much money Project Veritas spent on the report after ousting O’Keefe.
Sean
September 21, 2023 at 5:51 pm
Infiltrated by liberals, and sabotaged.
ProjectDefunct
September 21, 2023 at 6:04 pm
That’s a shame.
Rocketman
September 21, 2023 at 6:17 pm
Hahahahahahaha
harold crapper
September 21, 2023 at 6:26 pm
Mr. O’Keefe please do another startup and keep up the good work…hero.
Joel Mason
September 21, 2023 at 7:02 pm
Serves them right. Can’t fix stupid.
Keith Betts
September 21, 2023 at 7:34 pm
Just another liberal take down of people who they can’t control to tell their lies. Add Project Veritas to Drudge Report and Fox News to some extent.
Censorship is the only tool available to the Liberal NAZIS who have no answer to their horrible behavior. Liberals must be so happy to get back their favorite activities of destroying Constitutional freedoms and murdering the unborn.
irene austin
September 21, 2023 at 7:36 pm
tom, miss seeing you round buddy. HOpe you are well
Ed
September 21, 2023 at 8:01 pm
Knew that was gonna happen. Just like I know for certain that there was major voter fraud. And the reason they’re so worried about Trump. Trump has the receipts on the skeleton/closet.
UNGABUNGA
Frank S.
September 21, 2023 at 8:02 pm
Good riddance!
Verbal Bomb Chucker
September 21, 2023 at 8:30 pm
James O’Keefe must be sitting in his office laughing and spinning around in his chair. O’Keefe WAS Project Veritas. This a great lesson for business owners.
1) Stay small.
2) If you hit it big time…..Don’t go Public.
3) If you go Public….never, ever have a minor share. Always have at least 51% of the company stock. Look at what happened to Steve Jobs at Apple. He got fired in 1985 from the company he founded. Sadly, it happens all to often.
Trutherator
September 22, 2023 at 4:20 am
And Apple had to bring Steve Jobs back to fix it. It would be interesting to see what happens to the people that stuck with Priject Veritas going forth. Will they be rewarded for sinking the ship? By somebody?
John Crawford
September 21, 2023 at 10:25 pm
Now those idiots really know what a hostile workplace looks like.
Glee
September 21, 2023 at 10:29 pm
🎉🎉 yippee! Project Veritas is soooo deserving of not only financial and employment losses but this public humiliation after what they did to O’Keefe. I’m confident the swamp Deep State (with traitorous insiders) was behind the attempted shut down of O’Keefe, but like with Trump, O’Keefe’s followers recognized the source and didn’t budge. He is still going strong, building a new, more dynamic organization while the Project Veritas coup started nose diving and just now face palmed. I am THRILLED at their demise! Poetic justice is a beauty to behold!
Cheyenne
September 22, 2023 at 12:50 am
K A R M A at work.
Glorious to see in this lifetime.
Wishing continued success for James!
Joan crawford
September 22, 2023 at 12:06 am
What’s the deal with Hannah Giles? Did her and O’Keefe part ways long ago? Why is she a fraud?
rametindallas
September 22, 2023 at 5:56 am
Hannah Giles is the new ‘Typhoid Mary’ of executives.
Minnie McGuire
September 22, 2023 at 7:45 am
Project Veritas had to be taken out. The truth must not be told. I wonder how much the ’employees’ got paid to sabotage the company.
david ward
September 22, 2023 at 2:45 pm
Rule 1 Never trust a liberal. Rule 2 Don’t act surprised if you break Rule 1.
BigJymn
September 22, 2023 at 9:22 pm
Hahaha Communism 101. Communist ALWAYS remove their minions once their usefulness is done.