PIMP M CIRCUMSTANCES OF HIS MANY FRAUDS

The schemer behind a failed attempt to plant a fake story in the Washington Post has a dubious and colorful record of deception. Though New Jersey native James O’Keefe, 33, claims to seek the truth with his Project Veritas outfit, his quest to expose liberals and media bias includes many lies and deceptive videos. Here are some of his most infamous stunts:

2004: As a student at Rutgers, O’Keefe made a video where he pretended to be offended by the leprechaun on the Lucky Charms cereal box, claiming it was offensive to Irish-Americans in an effort to get the university to ban the sugary breakfast treat.

2007: O’Keefe tapes himself calling Planned Parenthood posing as a donor who wants to finance abortions for minorities.

2009: Working with a woman posing as prostitute, O’Keefe makes secret video recordings of their dealings with community organizing group ACORN, saying they were looking for government assistance to open a brothel. The videos are deceptively edited and promoted by O’Keefe, dressed in full pimp regalia. Congress cut funding to ACORN, and O’Keefe later settled a lawsuit by a worker who said he’d been smeared. 2010: O’Keefe is arrested in New Orleans for sneaking into then-Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office dressed as a phone repairman. He goes on to plead guilty to entering property belonging to the United States under false pretenses, and is sentenced to three years of probation.

2014: O’Keefe poses as a civics professor to bait Colorado Democrats into approving voter fraud. That same year, O’Keefe tries to entrap liberal filmmakers at the Cannes Film Festival by asking them to accept Middle East oil financing for a film to oppose fracking.

2017: One of O’Keefe’s operatives tries to plant a fake story about Alabama Republican senate candidate Roy Moore. But The Washington Post does not fall for the trick.

“Yes, we use disguise, yes, we go undercover,” O’Keefe tells students at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Wednesday night.

“But sometimes it’s the only way to ferret out what people really believe — when nobody’s looking.”