Shocking new undercover video by James O’Keefe, the man who brought down ACORN, shows President Obama’s Navigators advising Obamacare enrollees how to cheat the system in order to obtain subsidies.

O’Keefe has engaged in a series of undercover videos uncovering government wrongdoing and corruption. As a result of his undercover investigations, ACORN, the ‘community organizing” group that Obama worked for as a lawyer and trainer, was stripped of its federal funding, essentially disbanding the organization.

The latest undercover videos take on Obamacare’s “Navigators,” individuals who are supposed to be specially trained individuals to help, according to the Department of Health and Human Services “serve as an in-person resource for Americans who want additional assistance in shopping for and enrolling in plans” on the Obamacare exchanges.

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There are nearly 50,000 navigators who are employed by various non-profit and community organizations who have received over $67 million in grant funding. Since the beginning, many of the groups receiving the grants have controversial backgrounds including United Labor Unions Council Local 100, which was founded by ACORN founder Wade Rathke. The group was formed from old ACORN affiliates.

Among the groups featured in O’Keefe’s undercover video are a Texas navigator site run by the National Urban League. In the video, government-paid workers are shown advising enrollees how to lie on government forms, ignore proper procedures and evade legal requirements.

“You lie because your premiums will be higher,” one navigator advises an investigator for O’Keefe’s Project Veritas, who tells the worker he sometimes smokes. “Don’t tell them that. Don’t tell ’em.”

On another video, the investigator poses as a low-income worker at a university and has unreported cash income coming in, and is worried about how this extra money might affect his premium subsidies. By law the individual is to report the income in order to help determine the amount, if any, of the subsidy he qualifies for.

However, rather than advise the person to follow the law, the navigator tells him, “Don’t get yourself in trouble by declaring it now.”

“Yeah, it didn’t happen,” another navigator says. One more chimes in: “Never report it.”

Besides the obvious problems with government representatives advising people to break the law, another issue involves what these organizations are doing with the personal and financial information they are getting access to.

O’Keefe reports that another group, Enroll America, appears to be sharing data and working with Battleground Texas, an overtly political organization that is “dedicated to turning Texas blue.”

Last week Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted in testimony before Congress that there was nothing in the HHS rules, which she approved, that prohibited convicted felons from being a navigator.