The FBI searched the home of Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe on Nov. 6, about a day after the agency had executed a search warrant at homes belonging to Veritas associates.
In a statement to The Epoch Times about whether O'Keefe’s home was searched, an FBI spokesperson confirmed that “a court-authorized law enforcement action” was carried out “in furtherance of an ongoing investigation.”
“They asked for James,” he said. “I thought they were banging on my door. I opened the door.”
“Agents told me to close the door and I closed the door. That’s exactly what happened. It was still dark.”
Brent Mickol, another neighbor who lives across the hall, said the agents announced “something along the lines of ‘FBI Warrant. Open up,’” he told the New York Post.
In a statement uploaded to YouTube on Nov. 5, O‘Keefe confirmed that the FBI is investigating his group and conducted searches at the homes of current and former Project Veritas journalists. Although he was told in a grand jury indictment to not discuss the search, O’Keefe said that New York Times reporters contacted Project Veritas reporters for comment soon after the raids were carried out, begging the question of how the NY Times obtained information about the searches.
“Apartment and homes of Project Veritas journalists and former journalists had been raided by FBI agents,” he said, noting that he believes that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is targeting the group.
Project Veritas never published the contents of the diary, although other media outlets did in 2020. Instead, his group turned the diary over to law enforcement.
“At the end of the day, we made the ethical decision that because, in part, we could not determine if the diary was real, if the diary in fact belonged to Ashley Biden, or if the contents of the diary occurred, we could not publish the diary and any part thereof,” O'Keefe said on Nov. 5.