Hannah Giles

Hannah Giles, the CEO of conservative nonprofit Project Veritas, announced her resignation “effective immediately” on Monday December 12 2023, saying she’d unwittingly “stepped into an unsalvageable mess” upon taking the job earlier this year. Giles was named the group’s chief executive four months after its messy breakup with founder James O’Keefe in February 2023, In a statement posted to X, she claimed she’d taken over an organization “wrought with strong evidence of past illegality and past financial improprieties.” In 2009, O’Keefe and Giles, then a journalism student, teamed up to surreptitiously record members of the national community organizing group ACORN, resulting in its eventual shutdown. This September, Mediaite reported that Project Veritas had suspended all operations and fired most of its staffers.