Judge orders O'Keefe confined to his parent's basement until next hearing.

[arcadian]

Well, to their house, I'm assuming they might put him him up in their basement.

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As if James O'Keefe hasn't suffered enough indignity after botching an alleged phone tampering operation at a U.S. senator's office, getting arrested, and being photographed leaving jail, the judge in the case has now ordered that he reside with his parents until the next hearing.

Magistrate Judge Louis Moore made the order Tuesday as part of the conditions of release for O'Keefe, 25. (Read them here)

The young conservative filmmaker is free on $10,000 bond. A preliminary hearing in the case is set for February 13.

It's not clear where O'Keefe, who hasn't said much publicly since getting out jail, is right now. But his father, the elder James O'Keefe, told the AP "I'm confident this was poor judgment ... but not much more." James and Deborah O'Keefe live in New Jersey, the state where Moore ordered the younger O'Keefe to remain while out on bond.

It's also unclear where O'Keefe lived before the arrest.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

1. All he has to do is appeal his case all the way to the SCOTUS

and they'll let him off is someone does not along the way.

[Robb]

2. I laughed, I kicked, I recced. nt

[Brickbat]

3. I kind of hate this, because the more this 25-year-old man is treated like a child, the more what

he did can be treated like a "youthful prank." As other posters pointed out on other threads, O'Keefe is two years older than the alleged underwear bomber, he's a year older than Lee Harvey Oswald. Where were you at 25? I had just returned to the States after working in Russia almost two years and was about to get married. Treating him like a child might be an "indignity," but I do think it reinforces the idea of him as a mischievous man-child who was just having some fun.

[Hello_Kitty]

4. I had been in the Navy for 6 years. eom

[JanMichael]

7. No shit! He's not a fucking teenager. I just don't get...

...the coddling of such a jackass, now probably real, criminal.

[arcadian]

8. I agree

I'm thinking he told the judge that he doesn't have an address, that he just uses his parents. In which case they should have done what they do with everybody else who has "no known address" ie. homeless, thrown his ass in the county lock up until his next hearing date.

[niyad]

9. wish I could rec your response--you said what has been bothering me for nearly three days now.

could you post this as a separate thread?

[Brickbat]

11. Done! Thanks for the suggestion.

[Contrary1]

5. O'Keefe's folks may need to apply for food stamps...

[Jim__]

6. I love it! The repukes new hero ordered back to Mom and Dad's house!

It fits the mold for all these smirking frat boys.

[HopeHoops]

10. Isn't that where right wing losers live anyway?

:shrug:

[glitch]

12. I first thought this was from The Onion.

The process to trivialize this serious crime and confessed criminal begins.