Is Former Sanders Field Director Preparing to Sue Vote Fraud Hunter O’Keefe?

James O’Keefe of Project Veritas Action, the organization that has been exposing election controversies and voter fraud for a number of years, including in New Hampshire, may have another legal issue on his hands after an attorney representing a former Bernie Sanders staffer has issued a demand for preservation of evidence. The letter from Ogborn Mihm LLP out of Colorado, the law firm representing Richard Pelletier, the national field director for Sanders’ unsuccessful presidential campaign, is claiming that O’Keefe illegally recorded an interview with him about Australian citizens working on the Sanders campaign.

In the letter, the firm alleged that O’Keefe told Pelletier that he worked for BuzzFeed.com and was speaking to him “on background.” Later, the footage appeared in a video segment about Australian citizens being paid a stipend and expenses to work for the Sanders campaign. The stipends and expenses were paid for by the Australian Labor Party and taxpayers in Australia, according to the campaign workers who were recorded in the videos.

The segment is below:

In the video, an undercover PVA staffer recorded the Australians ripping up Donald Trump political signs in New Hampshire and recorded the election workers talking about how they were being paid by the Labor Party to be in the United States to help Sanders. The campaign workers were in Granite State, Iowa, South Carolina, and Nevada. The revelation of the workers in the United States caused outrage in the press down under.

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The hiring of the Australians is illegal – foreign nationals can volunteer on campaigns but can’t be compensated. Foreigners as well as overseas orgs like the Australian Labor Party are also banned from donating money, services, products, or anything to any American political process, according to federal law.

Back in March, former state Rep. and House Speaker William O’Brien, R-Mont Vernon, filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission about the foreign campaign workers.

Pelletier, in his interview segment, denied knowing who paid for the Australians to come to the United States and called them volunteers.

O’Keefe walks through the potential lawsuit in this video and gives some of his side of the story.

In O’Keefe’s video, he shows that while speaking with Pelletier, he expressed that he wanted to get an on the record comment about the Australian volunteers.

The law firm representing Pelletier requested all documents, videos, recordings, and other items featuring him as well as audio and video of PVA undercover journalists interacting with the Australians.

O’Keefe said he hoped that the threat of a lawsuit would bring more exposure to the illegal use of foreign campaign workers during the 2016 presidential primaries.

“We’ve been doing this for years,” he said, “we’re used to it. We say, ‘Bring it,’ OK? We’re not afraid of this.”