A Texas law firm is prepared to defend an investigative reporter who helped expose the massive fraud at the controversial community activist group ACORN, should it follow through on its threat to sue her.
Hanna Giles and her partner James O'Keefe produced a series of powerful exposé videos that created such a stir that both houses of Congress overwhelmingly voted to cut off federal funding to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). But now the liberal community activist organization has decided that it may strike back by filing a suit against O'Keefe and Giles, as well Fox News and Breitbart.com, which have extensively shown the video. Kelly Shackelford is chief counsel at the Liberty Legal Institute, which is representing Giles. He says his client did the country a favor. "Hanna exposed something really horrible," explains the attorney. "[She helped expose] people who were voluntarily offering to co-conspire in sex trafficking of 13-year-old girls from El Salvador, and [who were involved in] tax fraud and all kinds of violations of the law -- and they're using taxpayer money. "So I think most of the country realizes what a favor this was to expose this kind of corruption." Giles says she is not overly concerned about ACORN's lawsuit threat. "The lawsuit is just kind of something I'm dealing with right now," she shares. "But I'm really excited about the IRS investigating ACORN, the Treasury, the votes that the House and the Senate did, the Census [Bureau] cutting ties with ACORN. That's more where I'm focusing on. I'm kind of looking at all the good that's come from this." Shackelford says it is shocking that ACORN is trying to bully a 20-year-old college student --and he believes it is ultimately not going to work.
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