In case you hadn't heard, the ACORN saga continues to boomerang on Andrew Breitbart and friends, who can't seem to clean their hands of the messy story. Months after having their beloved video gotcha exposed as a hoax, and months after Breitbart protégé James O'Keefe admitted to breaking the law in New Orleans, we discover that O'Keefe and ACORN partner Hannah Giles are being sued in California for invading the privacy of a former ACORN worker in the San Diego office.

Notes Joe Conason at Salon:

Filed last week in the U.S. District Court in San Diego, Vera's brief complaint claims that O'Keefe, Giles and up to 20 unnamed parties violated his “reasonable expectation of privacy” by conspiring to secretly videotape him and then posting the tapes on the Internet without his consent, causing him to lose his job and other damages. Indeed, as the complaint notes, the “pimp and prostitute” explicitly asked Vera whether their conversation would be confidential.

BTW, here's the relevant section of California's Invasion of Privacy Act that's probably giving Bretibart fits these days [emphasis added]:

Every person who, intentionally and without the consent of all parties to a confidential communication, by means of any electronic amplifying or recording device, eavesdrops upon or records the confidential communication, whether the communication is carried on among the parties in the presence of one another or by means of a telegraph, telephone, or other device, except a radio, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or in the state prison, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

UPDATED: This might be a good time for Breitbart, in the name of transparency, to finally come clean about who pays for O'Keefe's white shoe legal defense.

UPDATED: Note that the former San Diego ACORN employee is seeking $75,000 in damages. If O'Keefe and Giles lose in court, will Breitbart take the $100,000 he was going to spend on the Journolist archive and pay the ACORN fine?