Project Veritas' undercover journalists met with Academy Award Governor Ed Begley Jr., Academy Award nominated actress Mariel Hemingway, and Sundance Award Winning Producer Josh Tickell at the Beverley Hills Hotel to discuss funding for an anti-fracking film to the tune of 9 million dollars. Watch below as James O'Keefe gives some history to how this investigation came about and why.
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Hollywood celebrities caught on hidden camera accepting money from “Middle Eastern oil interests”
Project Veritas undercover journalists met with Academy Award Governor Ed Begley Jr., Academy Award nominated actress Mariel Hemingway, and Sundance Award Winning Producer Josh Tickell at the Beverley Hills Hotel to discuss funding for an anti-fracking film to the tune of 9 million dollars. The three members of Hollywood’s vanguard thought they were meeting with a man named “Mohammed” whom they believed to be the son of a Middle Eastern oil family dynasty, however, they were actually meeting with a Project Veritas undercover journalist.
Results
Ed Begley Jr. Forced To Respond To Project Veritas Video
Upon the release of the Project Veritas videos, Ed Begley Jr. made a written statement on his website to recount the incident.
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