James O'Keefe, Project Veritas settle suit over bogus voter fraud claims cited by Trump campaign
A Postal Service worker admitted in the settlement that he only heard "a fragment" of a conversation between a supervisor and a postmaster, who later filed a lawsuit.
Conservative provocateur James O'Keefe and his former organization Project Veritas have settled a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania postmaster after the group spread a Postal Service worker's false claims of voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election.
A lawyer who represented Robert Weisenbach, the Erie postmaster who filed the lawsuit in state court, confirmed that it had been settled on undisclosed terms.
“The only comment I’m allowed to make about it is that the case was filed, was litigated, and settled to the satisfaction of the parties,” attorney David Houck told NBC News.
O'Keefe, who was removed as head of Project Veritas in February 2023, said in a brief statement Monday that he was "aware of no evidence or other allegation that election fraud occurred in the Erie Post Office during the 2020 Presidential Election.”
Protect Democracy, a self-described anti-authoritarian group that was involved in the suit on Weisenbach's side, said in a statement that the case “was resolved in a manner acceptable to all parties.”
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