O’Keefe Media Group Releases Undercover Video Exposing NJ Antifa Group Called “NJ BURN”
The outlet says an eight-month undercover effort accessed private Signal chats and links participants to Silicon Valley, Rutgers, Princeton, T-Mobile and the ACLU.
O’Keefe Media Group (“OMG”), the outlet led by investigative journalist James O’Keefe, released a video June 16 saying an undercover operative spent eight months inside the private Signal chats of a New Jersey group it calls “NJ BURN” and describes as part of an antifa network.
According to OMG’s published account, the chats included discussion of a Port Newark–Elizabeth blockade, riot logistics, road spikes and the slashing of police-vehicle tires, and some participants celebrated the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and expressed support for past attempts on President Trump’s life. The outlet says it identified chat participants holding positions at OpenAI, T-Mobile, Rutgers University, Princeton Theological Seminary and the American Civil Liberties Union, and that it contacted those institutions for comment before publishing.
The video identifies roughly ten people. Among them is Jim Keady, a former New Jersey Democratic congressional candidate and former Asbury Park councilman. OMG names the remaining individuals by employer as well. Central Jersey Newswire is not republishing those names; none is a public figure and none of the attributed statements has been independently verified.
OMG connects the group to two New Jersey flashpoints: immigration-enforcement protests at the Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark and demonstrations around the Port Newark–Elizabeth complex. O’Keefe has since posted follow-up clips claiming additional leaked screenshots and saying participants are deleting their chat histories.
The claims have circulated widely in conservative media, including The Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial and The National Pulse. As of publication, no mainstream news organization, New Jersey law-enforcement agency or court had confirmed the chats or the identifications, and none of the named institutions had publicly responded.
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