By The FirstJames O’Keefe announced his departure on Monday from Project Veritas, the undercover journalism group he founded in 2010, after an internal power struggle with PV’s management.
“Currently, I have no job at Project Veritas,” O’Keefe said in a near hourlong video posted online on Monday. “I have no position here based upon what the board has done–so I’m announcing to you all that today, on Presidents’ Day, I’m packing up my personal belongings here.”
R.C. Maxwell, a spokesman for Project Veritas, tweeted that O’Keefe “was removed from his position as CEO by the Project Veritas board.”
“I don’t have the answers as to why they’ve been doing this, or why board members were going directly to employees to collect grievances on the week of our biggest story ever,” a visibly emotional O’Keefe said of the internal power struggle that led to his departure. “But I’m confident that those reasons and motivations will come to light. To borrow an old expression, ‘the public has a right to know what has happened here.'”
O’Keefe also implied that he would start a new organization, saying “the mission will perhaps take on a new name.”
Watch James O’Keefe’s full announcement below: