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On April 16, Project Veritas filed a motion to enter Robert Creamer's felony record into the $1 million lawsuit that Democracy Partners, Strategic Consulting Group and Robert Creamer filed in June 2017 against Project Veritas Action Fund, et al.

The original suit alleges that Project Veritas had a woman obtain an internship with a fraudulent name and application, and violated federal and local wiretap laws when private conversations were secretly recorded.

In a press release on April 20, Project Veritas said its "rigging the election" investigations uncovered attempts to incite violence at Trump events.

“Robert Creamer, the principal witness for Democracy Partners, claims damages, but his history of serious federal banking and tax crimes must be part of the court record,” said Project Veritas CEO and founder James O’Keefe. “Creamer’s crimes of dishonesty speak to his unreliability as a witness. This lawsuit is just another one of his schemes, but this time, instead of just going after the money, he is going after the First Amendment.”

Project Veritas said Creamer directed clerical workers and staff of the Illinois Public Action Fund and Citizens Action Center for Consumer Rights on how to move funds and artificially inflate account balances, allowing him to withdraw funds from accounts that had negative balances, a practice known as check-kiting, according to Creamer’s 2005 guilty plea related to crimes committed in 1993, 1996 and 1997.

When the criminal investigation became public in 1997, Creamer resigned as the leader of Citizen Action.

“Beneath the group’s carefully crafted image of respectability and influence were problems that had festered for years. The biggest: The group was financially overextended and used questionable techniques to raise funds,” Chicago Tribune wrote. “In hindsight, the problems seem obvious yet some supporters and even board members allowed their vision to be clouded by their loyalty to the group’s progressive causes and admiration for Creamer, according to documents and interviews.”

During the Project Veritas 2016 investigation, Scott Foval, National Field Director for Americans United for Change, told a Project Veritas undercover journalist his job was to take Creamer’s plans for chaos and violence and ensure they happen on the ground and receive local and national media coverage.

Project Veritas Action got a pretrial victory on March 31 when Judge Ellen Huvelle dismissed two major counts in Democracy Partner’s lawsuit: Trespass and Breach of Fiduciary Duty.