[Law and Crime]: Pro-Trump defamation attorney Lin Wood must pay former law partners $4.5 million after defaming them as ‘criminal’ extortionists on social media
Colin Kalmbacher
The #Trump #attorneys in the #Michigan Federal Court ruling were:
1. #SidneyPowell,
2. #LinWood,
3. #EmilyNewman,
4. #JuliaHaller,
5. #BrandonJohnson,
6. #ScottHagerstrom,
7. #HowardKleinhendler,
8. #GregoryRohl &
9. #StefanieLynnJunttila.
Judge Parker also ordered them to complete 12 hrs of continuing #legal education in pleading standards & #election #law within 6 months of her decision.
#MAGA = #MakingAttorneysGetAttorneys
#law #legal #democracy #BidenHarris2024
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#SidneyPowell, #LinWood & 7 other #lawyers were found to have #deceived fed courts & #debased the #judicial process, a fed judge in #Michigan ruled. Judge Parker of #Detroit’s Fed Dist Court ordered the lawyers to be referred to the local #legal authorities in their home states for possible #suspension or #disbarment.
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#MAGA = #MakingAttorneysGetAttorneys
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/25/election-lawyers-ordered-pay-state-city-costs-may-face-disbarment/8162355002/
That suit, one of dozens in the sweeping effort by #Trump’s campaign & allies to challenge #Biden’s victory, alleged that state ofcls had schemed to “fraudulently & illegally manipulate the vote count.”
A district court in #Michigan in Dec 2020 rejected the lawsuit’s call for ofcls to decertify the state’s true election results & falsely certify Trump as having won MI.
#SidneyPowell, #LinWood # several other #lawyers who advanced #Trump’s false claims of a stolen election will face #legal penalties after #SCOTUS declined to take up their appeal.
The penalties — upwards of $130k in legal fees incurred by the #election ofcls they sued, + referrals to their state #bar assns for discipline — stem from a lawsuit the lawyers filed in #Michigan in Nov 2020.
#MAGA #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/us/politics/trump-sidney-powell-kraken.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
« #FultonCounty #DistrictAttorney #FaniWillis is preparing to call in some big-name loyalists to former President #DonaldTrump, currently out on #bail, to testify at the trial of attorneys #KennethChesebro and #SidneyPowell.
#Politico reports that conspiracy-spouting lawyer #LinWood and longtime #Trump adviser #BorisEpshteyn are among the many witnesses who are being called by Willis to testify at the trial, which is slated to start later this month »
Via Tamar Hallerman AJC:
Ahead of this month's #RICO trial of #KennethChesebro & #SidneyPowell, #FultonCounty prosecutors have filed certificates of need for 6 #witnesses who live
outside of #Georgia:
-James #DeGraffenreid
-Greg #Safsten
-#LinWood
-#BorisEpshteyn
-Lawrence #Tabas
-#AaronVick
#Trump #law #legal #fedilaw #criminal #ElectionInterference #conspiracy #racketeering
https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-da-previews-witnesses-for-first-trump-rico-trial/4XPJ4CPP5VD3LMN5QXIAAJV6VQ/
“You don’t know anything about the boxes,” Trump reportedly told his longtime executive assistant Molly Michael about the classified documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy34ma/handling-trumps-box-business
#News #Politics #Trump #RayEpps #mollymichael #waltnauta #linwood #cassidyhutchinson
As per #HarryLitman
«And now for something completely disgusting.
#CassidyHutchinson says in her upcoming book that #RudyGiuliani groped her on #Jan6. And also something completely bizarre--crackpot lawyer #LinWood is now on #FaniWillis' witness list»
The #FultonCounty #Georgia special #GrandJury recommended #charges be brought against dozens of officials with “respect to the national effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election” — including Senator #LindseyGraham, fmr U.S. Senators #DavidPerdue & #KellyLoeffler, also fmr US #NationalSecurity advisor #MikeFlynn, #lawyers #LinWood, #CletaMitchell & others in addition to #Trump.
This isn’t the first #subpoena #Raffensperger & his team have received from #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith’s office.
Late last yr, a #GrandJury requested all coms the secretary’s office had w/ #Trump & his campaign between June 2020 & Pres Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021. The jury singled out communications w/nearly two-dozen of Trump’s attys, incl’g Rudy #Giuliani; John #Eastman, the architect of the “alternate” electors scheme; & longtime #Georgia lawyers #LinWood & Stefan #Passantino.
BLOOMBERG: Trump Lawyer Wood Retired as #Georgia Bar Weighed Disbarment
#LinWood, one of the lawyers who filed lawsuits in an effort to help #DonaldTrump overturn the US Constitution, has submitted a request to retire to the George Bar ahead of a decision on whether or not do disbar Wood....
News from the Department of Don't Let the Door Hit You in the Ass on the Way Out. #LinWood #TrumpCoup https://press.coop/@newrepublic/110662668506419745
Via Stephen Fowler:
#LinWood’s facing several issues (including mental health concerns and allegations of breach of contract/abusive behavior towards former colleagues) in addition to his unhinged post-2020 commentary about elections that included wild lawsuits and calls to execute politicians…
Ron Filipkowski:
Lin Wood, who was part of the #Trump legal team attempting to overturn the election, has agreed to permanent retirement from the practice of law rather than his likely disbarment.
