Busted: ACORN 'pimp' arrested in phone tampering plot at Sen. Landrieu's office

James O'Keefe has been arrested and charged with federal offenses after he was allegedly caught perhaps trying to bug the telephone line at the office of Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA). 

O'Keefe and three others reportedly went to Landrieu's Louisiana office claiming to be telephone workers attempting to fix a phone line. Once there, they aroused suspicion from workers after asking questions unrelated to the task of fixing the phone line.

Although originally reported here as a wiretap charge, one of the defense lawyers in the case, J. Garrison Jordan, pointedly noted "there is no wiretap allegation." Asked for a comment after he left jail, O'Keefe told reporters: "The truth shall set me free."

O'Keefe made a name for himself last year after his video of his undercover sting operation at ACORN offices went from the Internet to the television news, causing ACORN to be condemned by Congress in the wake of the scandal.