Wetmore didn't say much but his roommate Johhny Angel, the front man for the swing band Johnny Angel and the Swinging Demons, was more forthcoming. "Man, it was laptop city in this place," he said referring to O'Keefe, Dai and Basel quietly working away on their computers in the days before Numptygate.
Angel didn't mind the three crashing at the house because they were nice guys. He just had no idea the three, along with a fourth man who lives in New Orleans, would get mixed up in a scheme that would land them in jail on a charge of entering federal property under false pretenses for the purpose of committing a felony.
Their respective trips to New Orleans ended with Angel driving them to the federal courthouse, their suitcases packed, to receive instructions from court officials outlining the conditions of their release. They're free on $10,000 bond and are scheduled to return to court Feb. 12.
Angel said he asked the guys if what the newspaper was saying was true: Did they really try to mess with Landrieu's phones?
"They said they couldn't talk about it, that the judge said they couldn't discuss the case," Angel said.
Angel seems to give credence to the previous reports that the accused were told not to discuss the case, which O'Keefe denied in his statement.
If nothing else, O'Keefe is an idiot for talking about the case while a case is pending. Hopefully he will keep it up and provide more ammunition for the prosecution when he is "put under the kosh" by Hannity.
3:12 PM Apr 7th via TweetDeck