The Washington Post says it was targeted by a woman trying to plant a fake Roy Moore story

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After The Washington Post published the accounts of several women who accused Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct when he was in his early 30s and they were in their teens, a Post reporter was approached by a woman who falsely claimed Moore impregnated her when she was 15 and drove her to Mississippi for an abortion, the newspaper reported Monday.

The woman, who said her name is Jaime T. Phillips, was spotted by Post reporters on Monday morning entering the Mamaroneck, New York, offices of Project Veritas, a group that tries to discredit the mainstream media and left-leaning organizations using deceptive tactics. Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe refused to talk about Phillips with the Post reporters or tell them if he is working with the Moore campaign or any Republican strategists.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.