by The National Sentinel
(National Sentinel) Unlawful: James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has exposed campaign workers for U.S. Representative and Senate candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke appearing to engage in illegally funneling campaign resources to help Honduran migrants traveling in a caravan heading towards the U.S.
O’Rourke staffers Dominic Chacon and AnaPaula Themann admit to facilitating transportation to airports and bus stations.
Per Project Veritas:
Chacon: “The Hondurans, yeah… I’m going to go get some food right now, like just some stuff to drop off…”
Themann: “How did they get through?”
Chacon: “Well I think they accepted them as like asylum-seekers… So, I’m going to get some groceries and some blankets…”
Themann: “Don’t ever repeat this and stuff but like if we just say that we’re buying food for a campaign event, like the Halloween events…”
Chacon: “That’s not a horrible idea, but I didn’t hear anything. Umm, we can wait until tomorrow for that.”
Themann: “Well that’s exactly the food we need. And I will just mark it as, I do have dozens of block walkers.”
WATCH: Beto campaign manager says "don't worry" about using campaign resources to support caravan migrants in Texas; Staff says "I just hope nobody that's the wrong person finds out about this." pic.twitter.com/oSk29u6736
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 2, 2018
NEW: Beto Campaign got a tip about the caravan migrants who arrived in Texas, and martialed the campaign staff to act. Whether or not it was legal did not seem to concern him. "For me, I can just ignore the rules and I'm like f**k it." Full — https://t.co/ZKR7XsMZMN pic.twitter.com/YgPjEmdtf1
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 2, 2018
WATCH: Beto O'Rourke campaign staff explain how they go about concealing their use of campaign funds to support caravan migrants — Full video: https://t.co/ZKR7XsMZMN pic.twitter.com/AaZ95X8gIm
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 2, 2018
“Don’t ever repeat this…”
VERITAS: O'Rourke Campaign Staffers Transporting Caravan Migrants to "airports… bus stations," using campaign resources – say "Don’t ever repeat this…" FULL REPORT — https://t.co/ZKR7XsMZMN pic.twitter.com/8cu0yCk8C6
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) November 2, 2018
They were using “pre-paid credit cards” … “some sort of violation…”
According to a Project Veritas attorney who reviewed the footage:
“The material Project Veritas Action Fund captured shows campaign workers covering up the true nature of spending of campaign funds and intentionally misreporting them. This violates the FEC’s rules against personal use and misreporting. It also violates Section 1001, making a false statement to the federal government. The FEC violations impose civil penalties, including fines of up to $10,000 or 200 percent of the funds involved. Violations of Section 1001 are criminal and include imprisonment of up to five years.”
Chacon and Themann discuss how they hide their activities:
Themann: “There’s actually stores that just mark it as ‘food’ they don’t mark different types… at Albertsons, on the receipts, it marks it just based off of brand…”
Chacon: “I think we can use that with those [campaign pre-paid] cards to buy some food, all that s**t can be totally masked like, oh we just wanted a healthy breakfast!”
Themann said that she doesn’t “want to make it seem like all of us are from [the O’Rourke campaign]” when they distribute supplies to the Honduran illegals. She adds, “I just hope nobody that’s the wrong person finds out about this.”
Chacon goes on to explain that Jody Casey, the campaign manager for the O’Rourke campaign, was happy to hear about their efforts supporting the illegals with campaign funds:
Chacon: “She texted us afterward and was like, I’m so happy that we have a staff that gets it and was there, I was so happy to see Y’all there, still working, still contributing, we have the best team ever… she was good about it.”
Journalist: “So, Jody knows?”
Chacon: “Well, she doesn’t know we used the pre-paid card, but she doesn’t need to know.”
Chacon also says, “For me, I can just ignore the rules and I’m like f**k it.”
When asked about using campaign vehicles to assist the Honduran illegals, Chacon indicated that staffers were going to transport the aliens to airports and bus stations:
Chacon: “… we’re going to give rides to some of the immigrants too. Like to the airport, to the bus station, like why not, you know?”
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