Extreme emotional distress, suffered by two women who were assisting the import of underage girls for the sex trade & tax fraud, BECAUSE SOMEONE DARED TO CATCH THEM….
No mention of the pain and suffering of the American Taxpayer, inflicted by the Criminal Organization ACORN. And as yet, no charges files against ACORN or it’s employees, stemming from the Hooker/Pimp sting.
From: Sweetness & Light
From a cheering Associated Press:
ACORN employee Tonja Thompson.
ACORN sues filmmakers
By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Baltimore, MD (AP) — ACORN and two former employees of its Baltimore office filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit Wednesday against the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed the employees giving tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman posing as a prostitute.
The liberal activist group contends that the audio portion of the video was obtained illegally because Maryland law requires the consent of both parties to record private conversations.
The employees seen in the video, Tonja Thompson and Shera Williams, were fired after it was posted online. Thompson and Williams are plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which says they suffered “extreme emotional distress with attendant physical symptoms and injury to their reputations.”
The lawsuit names James O’Keefe III and Hannah Giles, who played the pimp and prostitute in the video, as defendants. It also names conservative columnist and blogger Andrew Breitbart of Los Angeles, who posted it on his Web site, biggovernment.com…
The lawsuit claims the video damaged ACORN’s reputation and asks for injunctions barring its further broadcast or distribution. It seeks $2 million in compensatory damages — $1 million for ACORN and $500,000 for each of the two former employees — as well as $1 million in punitive damages from each of the three defendants.
Andrew D. Freeman — an attorney for ACORN, Thompson and Williams — said the former employees did not wish to comment but that the emotional distress claim “is not an exaggeration.”
“They’re doing their best not to watch television. They’ve sort of been prisoners in their own homes,” Freeman said. “While everyone, including them, agrees that some of the things they said were dumb, in Maryland we have a right to say dumb things in the privacy of our homes and offices without fear of being taped and without fear of being splashed all over the Internet.” …
Thankfully, we are not a lawyer. But we strongly doubt that the Maryland law covers such investigative reporting, or it would have been trotted out many times in the past.
But it should keep the story alive and hopefully provide more information about this criminal enterprise.
More on this at Malkin, HotAir, and TownHall.
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