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Anti-ACORN video star Hannah Giles to give ‘special speech’ at West Palm Beach tea party rally

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 by George Bennett

hannah-giles-acornvideo-01a-560Hannah Giles, the former Florida International University student and conservative activist who posed as a prostitute in the undercover videos that brought down left-leaning ACORN, is scheduled to give a “special speech” at Thursday night’s tax day tea party rally at 5:30 p.m. at the county governmental center in West Palm Beach.

The videos made by Giles and accomplice James O’Keefe were back in the news recently when California Attorney General and former Democratic presidential hopeful Jerry Brown called the tapes “severely edited” and concluded the ACORN employees captured on the California videos engaged in “highly inappropriate behavior,” but didn’t break the law.

Will there be a Miami ACORN sting video after all?

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 by George Bennett

Florida International University student Hannah Giles and guerrilla videographer James O’Keefe created a national uproar last month when they released a series of undercover videos showing ACORN workers in Baltimore, Washington, New York, San Diego and San Bernardino, Cal., offering advice on setting up a brothel and concealing the income.

Congress yanked federal money from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, some ACORN workers lost their jobs and the left-leaning group pledged reforms.

Through it all, though, ACORN officials said the faux pimp and prostitute were kicked out of a Philadelphia office and said Giles was turned down when she made a solo visit to a Miami ACORN office.

Now O’Keefe and conservative Web host Andrew Breitbart are pushing back, posting an edited video on Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com site that disputes ACORN’s Philadelphia story.

Will there be a Miami video as well? Breitbart says there are more videos, but won’t reveal where they were shot.

South Florida woman is star of ACORN hidden-camera scandal videos

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 by George Bennett

New York Post photo of Hannah Giles, James Keefe

New York Post photo of Hannah Giles, James O'Keefe

The scantily clad co-star of the undercover videos in which staffers for the liberal group ACORN appear complicit in prostitution and tax evasion is a Florida International University student whose father is the pastor of a church in Aventura.

Hannah Giles, 20, poses as a prostitute in the videos with 25-year-old accomplice James O’Keefe, a conservative activist who appears decked out in a fur-accented pimp costume.

Since the first in a series of videos was posted last week on the Internet, the Census Bureau has severed its ties to ACORN, Senators voted 83-7 to cut off housing grants to the group, the White House has voiced disapproval and ACORN has fired at least some of the employees caught on tape and pledged to do an independent investigation.

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