The undercover reporting nonprofit Project Veritas has reportedly let go of the majority of its staff.
The official Project Veritas X account shared the message “SOS Hannah Giles just fired us all” at 4:15 PM on Aug. 17. The post was removed shortly afterward.
An unnamed source confirmed to Timcast that the Project Veritas staff has been let go and further claimed that the Chief Financial Officer for the nonprofit has resigned.
The source told Timcast donations dried up, there was a massive drop in financial support, and the "writing was on the wall for months."
Jack Posobiec, the senior editor at Human Events, also said a source had confirmed the validity of the message.
“All of production, all of field ops, all of comms, all of legal,” the source told Posobiec, according to an online post. “Only remaining are office admin, HR person, a couple development people & IT.”
The organization, which had been known for breaking a number of significant stories, has been plagued by administrative turmoil this year.
James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas, was placed on paid leave by the board in February before ultimately being removed after a group of 16 employees wrote a letter of complaint. The group said O’Keefe’s management style and business operations are “antithetical” to the organization’s core values.
“James has become a power drunk tyrant,” the group wrote in the letter. “We have all been on the receiving end of unnecessary, seemingly intentionally humiliating, and outright cruel behavior.”
O’Keefe confirmed his separation from the organization in a video on Feb. 20.
“I don’t have answers to why they’ve been doing what they’ve been doing, or why board members were going directly to employees to collect a list of grievances on the week of our biggest story ever,” O’Keefe said. “Or why our board members were going to employees directly to discuss removing me from Project Veritas – on the same week of our biggest story of all time.”
Giles took over as Project Vertias’ CEO after O’Keefe’s departure.
