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ACORN Sues Filmmakers, Breitbart

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Seeks $2 million in damages for undercover exposé.

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ACORN isn't giving up just yet. The community-based advocacy group filed a lawsuit in Baltimore over a documentary revealing employees offering legal advice to a pair of conservative activists disguised as a pimp and a prostitute, which led to Congress pulling funding and a condemnation from the White House. James O’Keefe (the pimp), Hannah Giles (the prostitute), and Breitbart (the Web site that broke the video) are all targets of the suit. The complaint seeks $500,000 for the two employees secretly filmed in the video and $1 million for ACORN in damages, Politico reports.

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