Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff
As Dana Geraghty recalls it, March 16th was a “rather quiet Wednesday.” That afternoon, she was in her cubicle at the Open Society Foundations, on West Fifty-seventh Street, where she helps oversee the nonprofit group’s pro-democracy programs in Eurasia.
The Foundations are the philanthropic creation of George Soros, the hedge-fund billionaire, who is a prominent donor to liberal causes, including Hillary Clinton’s Presidential bid.
Soros, who has spent nineteen million dollars on the 2016 Presidential campaign, is regarded with suspicion by many conservatives.
National Review has suggested that he may be fomenting protests against Donald Trump by secretly funding what it called a “rent-a-mob.”
Geraghty, who is twenty-eight, had programmed her office phone to forward messages from unfamiliar callers to her e-mail inbox. She was about to review several messages when she noticed that one of them was extraordinarily long.
“Who leaves a seven-minute voice mail?” Geraghty asked herself. She clicked on it...