Dominion starts serving lawsuits

[Elixir]

I am not as pleased with the tribulations of trumpsuckers as I am vexed by their persistence.
Trump needs to be LOCKED UP before can tamper further with witnesses and juries.

 

[laughing dog]

In more trumpsucker news related to Dominion lawsuits, the law firm representing Mike Lindell asked to be relieved of representation because he is unable to pay his substantial and growing legal bills.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

With all the fraudsters going to bankruptcy court and criminal court, it looks like Trump really is draining the swamp after all.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

With all the fraudsters going to bankruptcy court and criminal court, it looks like Trump really is draining the swamp after all.

The problem is it's a bottomless swamp.

 

[Elixir]

With all the fraudsters going to bankruptcy court and criminal court, it looks like Trump really is draining the swamp after all.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

FAFO. A warning for future slander, lebel, and defame artists of the extreme right.

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Amid his denunciations of the news media, including Fox News and other conservative outlets, he said his company had lost over $100 million after big-box retailers dropped his products. He depicted himself as a victim of “cancel culture” and said he wasn't done fighting.

“I’m never going to stop trying to secure elections for this country ever,” a defiant Lindell said. He went on to say: “I ran out of money. I have no money personally. Nothing left. Nothing left.”
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Lawyers: Election denier, 'MyPillow Guy' Lindell out of money, can't pay legal bills

Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit

abcnews.go.com

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

FAFO. A warning for future slander, lebel, and defame artists of the extreme right.

....
Amid his denunciations of the news media, including Fox News and other conservative outlets, he said his company had lost over $100 million after big-box retailers dropped his products. He depicted himself as a victim of “cancel culture” and said he wasn't done fighting.

“I’m never going to stop trying to secure elections for this country ever,” a defiant Lindell said. He went on to say: “I ran out of money. I have no money personally. Nothing left. Nothing left.”
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Lawyers: Election denier, 'MyPillow Guy' Lindell out of money, can't pay legal bills

Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit

abcnews.go.com

With crazies like Lindell the reality is you can't trust them or anything they say. The danger is having any remorse or sympathy for them. Better they just fall off the earth, we'll all be better off.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Observing Faux, Guiliani and others losing lawsuits for libel, slander, and defamation, and being sued for millions didn't seem to teach Navarro any lessons.

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Ex-president Donald Trump's former trade advisor Peter Navarro, who was recently convicted of contempt, has reportedly asked the court for permission to leave the country.

Navarro last month said that there are "murderers" at CNN and that the news network is guilty of "negligent homicide at a minimum."
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'That's gonna be a no': Convicted Trump official asks to leave the country

Ex-president Donald Trump's former trade advisor Peter Navarro, who was recently convicted of contempt, has reportedly asked the court for permission to leave the country.Navarro last month said that there are "murderers" at CNN and that the news network is guilty of "negligent homicide at a...

www.rawstory.com

 

[ZiprHead]

Top Trump allies facing charges lose lawyers after failing to pay legal bills

Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell who pushed various false claims about 2020 election face six- and seven-figure bills

www.theguardian.com

A trio of top Donald Trump allies who have racked up huge legal expenses to defend themselves from either criminal charges, convictions or defamation lawsuits have lost key lawyers for failing to pay six- and seven-figure bills in a sign of the huge legal problems they face.

The hefty legal bills of the ex-Trump adviser Steve Bannon, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow CEO, Mike Lindell, underscore the scale of the criminal and civil charges that ensnare them.

Welcome to the escalating legal and financial headaches plaguing three of the former US president’s top loyalists who pushed various false claims about his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden that helped provide cover for Trump’s election falsehoods.

The list of legal woes is long.

Bannon has a court appeal slated for November over his criminal conviction last year and pending four-month jail sentence for obstructing Congress by spurning a subpoena from the House panel that was investigating the January 6 insurrection.

Bannon also faces a trial next May in New York related to state fraud, conspiracy and money-laundering charges that he bilked donors in a Mexican wall project, dubbed “We Build the Wall.”

Meanwhile, Giuliani was charged in August with 13 criminal counts in Georgia by the Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, who also charged Trump and 17 others as part of a conspiracy to thwart Trump’s 2020 loss there. Pressures on Giuliani escalated in October when three other ex-Trump lawyers he worked with in varying ways agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors.

Further, Lindell is fighting $2bn defamation lawsuits by electronic voting machine firms he has claimed helped rig the 2020 against Trump, which have cost him millions of dollars in legal fees owed to a Minneapolis law firm.

In October, the law firm formally asked a court to allow it to withdraw from representing Lindell in these cases, citing millions of dollars it was owed.

On another legal front, a top lawyer for Bannon and Giuliani has ditched them and filed big claims for monies owed. Robert Costello and his firm, which has represented both Giuliani and Bannon, have filed separate claims against the duo, respectively, for $1.4m and $480,000.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

It really goes to show just how Trump doesn't care about anyone but Trump. These people backed him 105% and they are floundering with legal issues that they can't afford, probably thinking Trump would at least have their back. But nothing. He has abandoned them like they were one of his spouses. And yet people STILL love that bag of assholes.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

By itself, this one is tiny:

Ex-Fox News Reporter Says Network Fired Him For Opposing Its Jan. 6 Coverage - New York Verified

A former Capitol Hill reporter for Fox News filed a lawsuit against the network Monday accusing it of wrongfully firing him over his opposition to its

newyorkverified.com

But what will this do the the big suits?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Smartmatic case against Faux Noise is getting underway.

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The company notched a small court victory now that the move will force Anne Dias, Jacques Nasser, Chase Carey, and Roland Hernandez to produce critical documentation, The Washington Post reported Monday.

The board members are supposedly key to Smartmatic's case alleging that executives at Fox not only were privy to repeated and unsubstantiated claims of election fraud made by allies of former President Donald Trump were bogus but were unwilling to move a finger to pull back on the perpetuation of them.
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Voting tech company scores win in lawsuit against Fox News: report

Smartmatic, the voting company accused of manipulating the 2020 election tally for President Joe Biden, subpoenaed four Fox Corp. board members as part of its $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News.The company notched a small court victory now that the move will force Anne Dias...

www.rawstory.com

 

[ZiprHead]

Newsmax accused of deleting evidence that it was spreading 2020 election lies

In lawsuit, voting machine firm Smartmatic alleges the outlet destroyed documents that were ‘direct evidence of actual malice’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Newsmax accused of deleting evidence that it was spreading 2020 election lies

In lawsuit, voting machine firm Smartmatic alleges the outlet destroyed documents that were ‘direct evidence of actual malice’

www.theguardian.com

I don't think the sanctions will matter. But my understanding of how this stuff works is that if they show there were deletions they get the presumption that the material benefits them and harms Newsmax.

 

[Ford]

Newsmax accused of deleting evidence that it was spreading 2020 election lies

In lawsuit, voting machine firm Smartmatic alleges the outlet destroyed documents that were ‘direct evidence of actual malice’

www.theguardian.com

Well that's not at all surprising.

 

[lpetrich]

Litigation continues.

Kyle Cheney on X: "A federal judge has held Mike Lindell and My Pillow in contempt of court for refusing to turn over analytics data for his website in lawsuit brought by Smartmatic. (link)" / X

That court order

 

[ZiprHead]

“Would You Be Surprised to Learn This Case Does Not Exist?”

Unfortunately, he was.

www.loweringthebar.net

Pillow Guy's lawyer is in a bit of trouble.

This is not by any means the first time ChatGPT, or Gemini, or Bard, or Copilot, or Claude, or Jasper, or Perplexity, or Steve, or Frodo, or El Braino Grande, or whatever stupid thing it is people are using, has embarrassed a lawyer by just completely making things up. In June 2023, two New York lawyers got sanctioned for filing something they used AI to write, because unbeknownst to them it was citing cases that didn’t exist. Last year, a lawyer for former Trump henchman Michael Cohen (who used to be a lawyer but now isn’t, because of crime) filed something Cohen had given him that also had fake AI-generated citations in it. And in January, an expert witness who testifies about misinformation got in trouble for—you guessed it—unintentionally citing AI-generated misinformation.

But people keep doing it.

The latest example involves Marvelous Mike Lindell, the “My Pillow” guy who kept saying that U.S. voting machines were rigged, until finally voting-machine companies had enough and filed defamation lawsuits suggesting he prove his claims. Turns out he could not, and he and his company have been hammered in court. Lindell now claims to be broke, but I bet he’s rich in pillows.

This week’s debacle was in the District of Colorado, where Lindell and his company are being sued for something or other. That case is nearing trial, and in February one of Lindell’s lawyers filed an opposition to a motion that was set for hearing on April 21. That hearing … did not go well.

 

[ZiprHead]

Pillow guy is losing it.



Are his lawyers stupid enough not to keep copies???

 

[laughing dog]

Pillow guy is losing it.



Are his lawyers stupid enough not to keep copies???

Mr Lindell lost his mind over 4 years ago.

 

[bilby]

Are his lawyers stupid enough not to keep copies???

Is Satan stupid enough not to delete those too?