Andrew Breitbart summoned by grand jury

Andrew Breitbart, appearing on "Hannity"

Andrew Breitbart, whose Big Government website posted a series of videos exposing the willingness of ACORN workers to assist or overlook illegal activity, has been summoned to a New York grand jury apparently investigating the sting operation.

Andrea Shea King, a columnist for WorldNetDaily and a blogger at Radio Patriot, said Breitbart was scheduled to be on her show tonight but canceled because he was leaving immediately for a flight to New York.

The videos were created by filmmaker James O'Keefe and activist Hannah Giles.

No details of Breitbart's grand-jury appearance are available because the proceedings generally are held in secret.

WND has reported regularly on ACORN, the community-organizing group for which President Obama once worked. In its latest report, Breitbart issued an ultimatum to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder: investigate ACORN or more videos will be released just in time to disrupt the 2010 elections.

"This message is to Attorney General Holder," Breitbart said on the Fox News network's "Hannity" at the time. "I want you to know that we have more tapes, it's not just ACORN, and we're going to hold out until the next election cycle. … If you get into an investigation, we will give you the tapes; if you don't ... we will revisit these tapes come election time."

The show's host, Sean Hannity, responded, "This is a blockbuster, what you're saying here. You guys have more tapes, you'll release them before the election – that could have a big impact on the election."

A growing number of U.S. representatives already have proposed legislation that would ask Holder to appoint a special counsel to investigate allegations regarding ACORN.

House Resolution 911, introduced by Rep. Vernon Ehlers, R-Mich., and cosponsored by 28 representatives, states concern that ACORN may have been spending federal money illegally and charges, "There has not been a cohesive approach to investigating these allegations."

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The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which describes itself as a team of families "working together for social justice and stronger communities," had already been accused multiple times of voter fraud before BigGovernment.com's exposés showed ACORN workers advising how to fake tax forms, set up a child-prostitution business and carry out other illegal acts.

Outcry over the undercover tapes prompted Congress to defund ACORN and sever the organization's link with the upcoming census. But Breitbart insists federal authorities cannot simply wait out the firestorm to avoid a formal investigation:

"While all that damage occurred, Congress didn't come in to investigate them, obviously not the attorney general's office, and they've now realized, let's get back into business, because they realized that the dust settled and they were not being investigated," he said.

And while Breitbart continues to push for a formal investigation, Giles and O'Keefe are themselves subjects of investigations and lawsuits.

"There's a lot of hypocrisy," Breitbart said. "At the end of the day they've recognized that Eric Holder, the attorney general, has not initiated an investigation into ACORN after we now have seven tapes. … It was Hannah, James, and me who were being investigated, that's why we've been forced to offer this latest tape."

The latest tape Breitbart referred to was yet another undercover sting, this time exposing Lavelle Stewart of ACORN in South Central Los Angeles, who tells Giles and O'Keefe – posing as a prostitute and pimp hoping to establish a quiet, international, underage prostitution ring – that they will have to hook up with "someone who's on that international sex business level."

"Fourteen- and 15-year-olds been traveling overseas for years," Stewart said before offering to do research and hinting that she has had meetings with porn magnate Larry Flynt.

When O'Keefe suggested the money would be laundered into his political campaign, Stewart answered, "There are ways, people do it all the time. Yeah there are ways, especially out here in California."

The latest undercover video, in two parts, can be seen below:

(Editor's note: The videos contain alluring images of Giles in costume and suggestive song lyrics.)

The second part of the video can be seen below:

ACORN, which has fired workers caught in several earlier compromising videos, has alleged they are manipulated, and has threatened a lawsuit against the filmmaker and websites, as well as Fox News. An investigator hired by ACORN concluded there was no really damaging information on the videos.