Project Veritas, the right-wing guerrilla activism group, and its founder James O'Keefe were sued by a crisis public relations firm Friday over what the firm says are $41,420 in unpaid bills.

The lawsuit, filed in state Supreme Court, alleges that O'Keefe and Mamaroneck-based Project Veritas owed the hefty sum for work performed by the group, Digital Strategy Ltd., in March and April of 2023.

On its LinkedIn page, Digital Strategy bills itself as a "new kind of crisis communications consultancy" focusing on "personal and business online reputation management, strategic communications in litigation, crisis communications and advocacy in legislation."

Digital Strategy's president and CEO, Brian Glicklich, was previously a spokesperson for Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host who died in 2021.

Digital Strategy says it performed work for Project Veritas from 2021 to 2023, until a dispute over the March and April invoices arose. Glicklich's billable rate, according to the lawsuit, was $695 per hour.

The company says it was hired to provide "a variety of consulting and public relations services in connection with multiple disputes Veritas and O’Keefe were engaged in."

O'Keefe is no longer affiliated with Project Veritas after the pair had a notorious, public falling-out in February 2023. O'Keefe said in a video posted online that he had been removed from the organization. His ouster appears to pre-date the contested bills from Digital Strategy.

In May 2023, Project Veritas sued O'Keefe in federal court, claiming that he stole donor lists and otherwise breached his fiduciary obligations to the organization while he was an officer.

In 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided O'Keefe's Mamaroneck home in connection with an inquiry into the theft of Ashley Biden's diary. She is the daughter of U.S. President Joe Biden. The diary had been sold to Project Veritas, and the South Florida woman who stole it was sentenced last month to one month in federal prison.

Neither O'Keefe nor Project Veritas responded to requests for comment about Friday's lawsuit.

Asher Stockler is a reporter for The Journal News and the USA Today Network New York. You can send him an email at astockler@lohud.com. Reach him securely: asher.stockler@protonmail.com.

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