What I love the most about the Judge's ruling in this case and the fraud upon the court that perpetrated is that this ruling will now be brought up in other courts where Prenda and their Craigslist found local counsel have been using this same scheme.
It is interesting to note one again the Hansmeier who claims to have nothing to do with Prenda or any of the associated cases of Prenda has once again been determined to be the point man in all this.
I would like to know who put the torrent files on Mr Merkel's computer for Prenda to "find". Could it have been good old Steele or was it Hansmeier or his brother Peter.
Should be interesting with the Prenda case LW Systems with local Craigslist stooge Adam Urbanczyk working supposedly for a defendant in St Clair County court in Illinois.
In that case this there is a pretty much carbon copy agreement for discovery Between Prenda and the client and Mr Hubbard (Adam Urbanczyk who is supposedly the defense counsel for Mr Hubbard).
Collusion much? I believe so, lets hope much like in the Minnesota case that someone who isn't working for Prenda Law, will point out to the court how Prenda seems to be foisting another fraud upon the court.
By the way for those that want to read more about Prenda's Case LW Systems vs Hubbard you can do so at this link at DTD:
The Prenda gang are simply trying their favorite tactics of Delay, Delay, Delay and then making the ususal noise that this doesn't belong, this should be tossed out, this has no bearing etc etc etc .
Duffy I have to laugh at, he doesn't even want to go on the record officially as a Prenda rep, so he tries to appear Pro se.
Hansmeier is no better, consider Hansmeier and Steele have been running around claiming to no nothing here goes Hansmeier sticking his nose into a Prenda case and under the name they are using for the other shakedown business they have going.
The Prenda gang has trouble on so many fronts it isn't even funny, they have to keep changing law firm names because the stench coming from them is so well known they cant get far with them.
This is I believe is the 4th or 5th creation by now. The Prenda gang isn't going to be able to escape the IRS criminal Division nor a Grand Jury looking into RICO.
you have to be fu%$ing kidding me. I guess it isn't enough that besides the salaries, gold plated pensions, benefits, health insurance and money that every lobbyist can throw your way isn't enough, you get to drive with full immunity in a sense.
What's next free cover-up's and your first liquor store hold up on the house.
As the technology advances so does the way for those to grab your information does and with more ease than ever.
While I think everyone would like to be safe from any people or groups that wants to commit crimes that kill or injure anyone, I am more than sick of the government around the world trying to force feed us that "it's all for good reasons"
Governments all over the world are grabbing information whether you have done anything or not and does whatever it will with it. The rights of a citizen are now just an illusion.
You more than ever now are looked at as a suspect then you have ever been. How many people who just happened to be minding their own business have gotten their information hoovered up because they happened to in some location at the time.
The way that Governments are taking information from people of all walks of life because they can needs to stop. There is far too much of an intent of misuse of the information they are taking every damn thing they can get on people,all the while justifying it as needed.
Well if there is anyone who knows how to censor things it's China. The irony here is astounding in that U.K Government will throw the stop sign up at Huawei over security concerns but allows them to run the sensor filter.
The mere fact that the Obama administration seem to be controlled by the MPAA and RIAA when it comes to copyright protectionism and has used that to force other countries to comply with Hollywood's copyright enforcement demands is starting to get ridiculous.
Britans citizen should be allowed to make their choice of wther they want to see porn or not, lord knows they don't need big nanny government to force a ban on those who don't want it.
What's next, telling people the missionary position is the only government authorised position unless it's tax time then your allowed to bend over and take it?
The mere fact that the U.K. government is even considering this is pure stupidity. I recall an effort to ban porn happened in the U.S. in the 90's by some politicians wife, and the porn industry banded together to fight it in the court and a lobbying effort.
People that don't want to look at porn wont, and those that want to keep their family at home from looking at it can filter it by blocking sites and content on their computer.
Yes I know there are ways to circumvent this, but honestly, if your looking for it, you will find it, if your not trying to, you wont. We don't need the government doing it for us.
I am amazed at the effort they are putting into this, if they put this much effort into all the financial crime hitting business and consumers with botnets malware etc etc a good chunk would be gone.
They can pressure other countries to enforce copyright laws, but cant do squat to get the guys behind finacial crimes like payment processor hacks, and what not.
Obviously your either a Prenda hack or your poor old John Steele feeling a little butt hurt that people don't like you much.
Your pal out of the blue and you still don't get it, your posts have the same vitrol in them without an substance of why the courts and opposing defense counsels are wrong in finding against Prenda and issuing sanctions and monetary penalties.
You haven't put forth a concise argument about the facts, just how you fell Steele is a victim here. No one really believes John is a victim of anything here except his own greed and his abuse of the law and his oath as an officer of the court.
John Steele is not victim but he has made sure to leave a lot of them out there who were scared into paying a settlement even if they didn't do it, to avoid having their name dragged into a lawsuit that most probably couldn't afford to fight.
So if you wants absolution for John Steele, you ought to go find a priest because you are not going to get it from many folks here
Re: Re: I'd like to know whether they aren't still WAY ahead, though!
They were ahead for a time. Lets see what happens when the IRS starts asking were all the undeclared cash went since Prenda says they don't have any money but Hansmeier in his deposition said it was in Prenda accounts to pay for future litigation.
Should be most interesting if their is a RICO investigation taking place.
Judge Chen I believe has always had the notion that AF holdings and Prenda were operated by the same people ever since the Salt Marsh ADR signature fiasco.
Judge Chen despite letting Prenda go about that Salt Marsh ADR signature knew Prenda was playing games with him in regards to that issue.
When the case came back before him with some of the updated information from Judge Wright's order and the information from Ranallo, Judge Chen knew he had more than sufficient grounds to take Prenda to task.
With Judge Wright's order and Judge Chen's sanctions, there are going to be a lot of other defence filings in other Prenda cases around the U.S. as more fact of what Prenda is really doing in regards to their so called litigation of copyright enforcement.
This should be interesting for the Georgia case and the Arizona case, as those Judges have put forth questions to Prenda's craigslist hired attorneys about who is behind some of those entities and the litigation.
It seems Mark Lutz who made the rise from John Steele's paralegal to AF Holdings CEO and Owner for no financial compensation at all seems to be a fugitive from the law in a couple of states.
You should definitely read the article about it at FCT
Judge Chen's ruling will know doubt be interesting to a Grand Jury in a RICO investigation and will be another tool for the IRS Criminal Division investigation.
Then you have Gibbs who has nothing to lose by being a witness in a federal RICO investigation after Steele's fragile ego got butt hurt when Gibbs wouldn't take the fall for Team Prenda, Gibbs may be looking to help investigators from the IRS and Federal Prosecutors to save himself and his law license.
I actually thought you were going to put forth a concise arguemtn on copyright law and infringmentutil I read this line:
"Otis Wright has gone too far in his misguided attempt to publicly defame a fine, upstanding individual in copyright enforcement, at the behest of Internet trolls of all things, for which Techdirt has become a cesspool"
And then I knew that there was no basis to anything you wrote just your effort to put forth a lets all feel sorry for poor John Steele.
Sorry but if you want absolution for John Steele, better go see a priest, because I doubt your going to get it from any of us.
Steele, Hansmeier and Duffy long ago lost touch with why they became Lawyers and have long forgot what the rules of court are and about.
They have all collectively used copyright litigation not to uphold anyones lawful rights as a way to protect their creative work. but as a bolierplate lawsuit factory designed to do nothing but enrich themselves.
Never mind that soome poor bastard who happens to have an IP address gets a settlement letter from the Prenda gang telling him he infringed some alleged copyrighted work and he need to pay up and settle or be sued and pay untold thousand of dollars and left with legal bills that may no know end.
Never mid that whether this person did it or not, it was your IP address so pay up. Truth be damned, if they dragged some poor bastard into a lawsuit innocent or not, pay up.
And what of thos who did retain counsel and fight? Prenda tried to withdraw rather than fight, they were not concerned with a fight just a quick buck.
If it wasnt for those few who did fight and the defense counsel's who exposed the P[renda gang and their "litigation" and the facts behind it, thios would still be going on and it is under a whole new name.
Sorry but Judge Wright as well as other Judges had defense lawyers bring the facts of the case and the companies and copyrights and tactics in these cases to the courts attention and rightly so as defendant counsel and as officers of the court.
The mere fact that all across the U.S. Judges have chastised and asked hard questions about Prenda litigation is all fair and Steele, Duffy and Hansmeier have no one to balme but themselves for their troubles.
They all stopped long ago in my opinion about upholding the laws and abiding by them and have chosen to use the law to achieve unjust enrichment at the hands of those innocent and not.
I have no respect for Steele, Duffy or Hansmeier, karma is a bitch and they are just seeing their share come back to them
Steele alos never put an e-mail address on his documents as well. I would assume this is to make it harder to serve him with documents to any related actions.
More of the games Steele and Prenda play with the courts, but yet Steele likes to complain how he hasn't been served and feign knowing anything about anything to do with these cases.
Steele is well know to troll DTD & FCT as I am sure he does here at Techdirt and Ars. You will never see any real point to their comments just the usual bashing under different handles
There comes a time when you think your smarter than you actually are, and Steele is starting to find this out.
Everyone knows that Steele is the real brains behind Prenda and Hansmeier is right behind him, with Duffy as a distant third.
Steele is playing games he knows it, we know it and Judge Wright knows this as well. Judge Wright in the last hearing that they all had to attend where everyone took the 5th gave the Prenda gang the benefit of the doubt and let them have a continuance and moved the hearing date further on the courts calendar.
Now if you all recall that was because almost everyone from Prenda filed a motion to appear by phone and it got denied, they then asked for another date which Judge Wright granted.
Now could Judge Wright grant Steele and extension, sure he could, but Judge Wright is familiar with the tactics of Prenda which are deny, deny deny and delay, delay, delay.
The mere fact that Steele was using a virtual office so he could say he had no physical office to be served at, no physical office address to be served at, and no fax or phone numbers to be gotten a hold of is just another attempt at avoidance to be served of filings and court directives.
We all know Steele desperately wants to avoid going into a courtroom and having to be sworn in under oath, because you can bet Judge Wright and Pietz would love to have Steele under oath an get it on the court record his answers to many questions.
I think Judge Wright may well grant Steele a further date, Steele however will still have to face the music and appear before Judge Wright.
Steele I imagine will lawyer up though and plead the fifth once again. There is no way he is going to want to get trapped into answering anything by Judge Wright and Pietz.
If Steele does appear I expect Judge Wright is going to grill him about the bond and why Steele is claiming to know nothing about anything with this case when correspondence and his filings show otherwise.
Either way I expect still to come out with some financial penalties out of this hearing.
I doubt Steele would preserve anything to help any defense counsel, so I think we are dreaming a tad if we think that happened.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone does make a query to the court asking any information regarding the deleted e-mail account to be held, we will have to see if a request is made to Judge Wright for this.
Lord knows I think when Steele realised how much of these domains registrations and other information led back to him and his e-mail account I am sure he went into panic mode and deleted it to try and wash some things away, except it only make it looks more suspicious than it already was.
In my opinion Steele is one of those guys who just thinks he is too smart for his own good and that he thought opf every little thing in this scheme, except he wasn't and he has left a trail of evidence that point back to himself.
I think Steele has been stretching the truth for so long now that he doesn't know the difference of what's true and what's fiction.
My opinion of course but if what Heller has put forth in these documents is true from Rannalo and Pietz's side of the argument then Judge Wright is not going to be a happy camper.
Also did anyone notice that Steele avoids any sworn affdavits or any filings that are under oath so he can not get grilled in court on them if he needs to conveniently have a "refreshed recollection of events" if so warranted to get him out of the crosshairs.
This is standard for anyone associated with Prenda to deny, deny, deny and blame anyone not in the Prenda inner circle and make them the scapegoat.
Prenda still has not posted the 235K bond with Pietz and the court. This hearing in front of Judge Wright should go over real well, especially when he finds out Team Prenda is not living up to his order to communicate with Pietz in regards to the conditions of the bond and the 14 days they had to do it in.
I recall Judge Wright stating in his order they would face an additional 1k a day penalty and he might issue additional sanctions against Team Prenda.
Now that Gibbs seems to realize that Steele is throwing him under the bus, I wonder how much old John is sweating that Gibbs may turn witness is a RICO investigation kicks in and he may also turn witness for the IRS Criminal Division.
It should be interesting, Prenda still has to give answers to Troll Gooodhue for Judge Snow in the Harris case in Arizona as well.
Should be interesting to see how things fair for these clowns in the next while
This really isn't a surprise, they have been doing this all over in the U.S. and Canada for years. All they really do is flash a badge and ask and the hotel front desk may consult with a manager but they usually comply no warrant needed.
While I don't believe they should be able to just turn it over on a whim, I would suffice to guess that the hotels have a clause allowing them to use/provide your information (sans credit card) when you sign in.
Most companies nowadays stick in a clause to use your info in their agreements. The mere fact this is a constant occurrence just tells you how information is now a commodity.
If you want my opinion unless the hotel has called the police because you trashed their room or are busting furniture up, then ok I can see them giving it to the cops.
With that being said if the police are there on a fishing expedition with no real cause for the hotel to provide it, I think they should have to get a warrant for it.
Back in 2003 the FBI grabbed records of over 250,000 people that were in Las Vegas over the New Year Holiday because of information about a possible Al Qaida attack that may take place and that was over a period of a few days.
All the hotel and rental records the FBI had collected had been shipped back to Washington for comparison against federal terrorism watch lists.
This isn't new but it has been going on for years, it's just now they are better at it, civil rights are out the window nowadays as is the expectation of privacy.
(Sorry about the double post folks, didn't realise it went through the first time)
On the post: Team Prenda Ordered To Pay Yet Another $64k In Yet Another Case
It is interesting to note one again the Hansmeier who claims to have nothing to do with Prenda or any of the associated cases of Prenda has once again been determined to be the point man in all this.
I would like to know who put the torrent files on Mr Merkel's computer for Prenda to "find". Could it have been good old Steele or was it Hansmeier or his brother Peter.
Should be interesting with the Prenda case LW Systems with local Craigslist stooge Adam Urbanczyk working supposedly for a defendant in St Clair County court in Illinois.
In that case this there is a pretty much carbon copy agreement for discovery Between Prenda and the client and Mr Hubbard (Adam Urbanczyk who is supposedly the defense counsel for Mr Hubbard).
Collusion much? I believe so, lets hope much like in the Minnesota case that someone who isn't working for Prenda Law, will point out to the court how Prenda seems to be foisting another fraud upon the court.
By the way for those that want to read more about Prenda's Case LW Systems vs Hubbard you can do so at this link at DTD:
http://dietrolldie.com/2013/04/02/red-alert-repost-lw-systems-v-christopher-hubbard-st-clair -county-illinois-13-l-0015/
On the post: Team Prenda May Be In Even More Trouble In Reopened Case
Duffy I have to laugh at, he doesn't even want to go on the record officially as a Prenda rep, so he tries to appear Pro se.
Hansmeier is no better, consider Hansmeier and Steele have been running around claiming to no nothing here goes Hansmeier sticking his nose into a Prenda case and under the name they are using for the other shakedown business they have going.
The Prenda gang has trouble on so many fronts it isn't even funny, they have to keep changing law firm names because the stench coming from them is so well known they cant get far with them.
This is I believe is the 4th or 5th creation by now. The Prenda gang isn't going to be able to escape the IRS criminal Division nor a Grand Jury looking into RICO.
On the post: Lawmakers Issued License Plates That Make Them 'Invisible' To Traffic Cams And Parking Tickets
What's next free cover-up's and your first liquor store hold up on the house.
On the post: Charles Carreon Having Some Difficulties Trying To Represent His Wife In Court Over Copyright Infringement Claims
On the post: Moscow Metro Deploying Cell Phone Tracking System To Fight 'Thieves' And 'Terrorists'
While I think everyone would like to be safe from any people or groups that wants to commit crimes that kill or injure anyone, I am more than sick of the government around the world trying to force feed us that "it's all for good reasons"
Governments all over the world are grabbing information whether you have done anything or not and does whatever it will with it. The rights of a citizen are now just an illusion.
You more than ever now are looked at as a suspect then you have ever been. How many people who just happened to be minding their own business have gotten their information hoovered up because they happened to in some location at the time.
The way that Governments are taking information from people of all walks of life because they can needs to stop. There is far too much of an intent of misuse of the information they are taking every damn thing they can get on people,all the while justifying it as needed.
On the post: Obama Promise To 'Protect Whistleblowers' Just Disappeared From Change.gov
If that doesn't speak volumes about how serious the Obama white house is about silence being golden, I don't know what does.
On the post: DOJ Tries, But Fails, To Delay ACLU Lawsuit Over NSA Spying
We have seen that play many times, don't be surprised to see the DOJ use it again
On the post: UK's Anti-Porn Filtering Being Handled By A Chinese Company
The mere fact that the Obama administration seem to be controlled by the MPAA and RIAA when it comes to copyright protectionism and has used that to force other countries to comply with Hollywood's copyright enforcement demands is starting to get ridiculous.
Britans citizen should be allowed to make their choice of wther they want to see porn or not, lord knows they don't need big nanny government to force a ban on those who don't want it.
What's next, telling people the missionary position is the only government authorised position unless it's tax time then your allowed to bend over and take it?
The mere fact that the U.K. government is even considering this is pure stupidity. I recall an effort to ban porn happened in the U.S. in the 90's by some politicians wife, and the porn industry banded together to fight it in the court and a lobbying effort.
People that don't want to look at porn wont, and those that want to keep their family at home from looking at it can filter it by blocking sites and content on their computer.
Yes I know there are ways to circumvent this, but honestly, if your looking for it, you will find it, if your not trying to, you wont. We don't need the government doing it for us.
I am amazed at the effort they are putting into this, if they put this much effort into all the financial crime hitting business and consumers with botnets malware etc etc a good chunk would be gone.
They can pressure other countries to enforce copyright laws, but cant do squat to get the guys behind finacial crimes like payment processor hacks, and what not.
What a waste of time and effort this will be.
On the post: More Sanctions Issued Against Team Prenda
Re:
Your pal out of the blue and you still don't get it, your posts have the same vitrol in them without an substance of why the courts and opposing defense counsels are wrong in finding against Prenda and issuing sanctions and monetary penalties.
You haven't put forth a concise argument about the facts, just how you fell Steele is a victim here. No one really believes John is a victim of anything here except his own greed and his abuse of the law and his oath as an officer of the court.
John Steele is not victim but he has made sure to leave a lot of them out there who were scared into paying a settlement even if they didn't do it, to avoid having their name dragged into a lawsuit that most probably couldn't afford to fight.
So if you wants absolution for John Steele, you ought to go find a priest because you are not going to get it from many folks here
On the post: More Sanctions Issued Against Team Prenda
Re: Re: I'd like to know whether they aren't still WAY ahead, though!
Should be most interesting if their is a RICO investigation taking place.
On the post: More Sanctions Issued Against Team Prenda
Judge Chen despite letting Prenda go about that Salt Marsh ADR signature knew Prenda was playing games with him in regards to that issue.
When the case came back before him with some of the updated information from Judge Wright's order and the information from Ranallo, Judge Chen knew he had more than sufficient grounds to take Prenda to task.
With Judge Wright's order and Judge Chen's sanctions, there are going to be a lot of other defence filings in other Prenda cases around the U.S. as more fact of what Prenda is really doing in regards to their so called litigation of copyright enforcement.
This should be interesting for the Georgia case and the Arizona case, as those Judges have put forth questions to Prenda's craigslist hired attorneys about who is behind some of those entities and the litigation.
It seems Mark Lutz who made the rise from John Steele's paralegal to AF Holdings CEO and Owner for no financial compensation at all seems to be a fugitive from the law in a couple of states.
You should definitely read the article about it at FCT
http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2013/07/18/wanted-a-fugitive-named-mark-lutz/
Judge Chen's ruling will know doubt be interesting to a Grand Jury in a RICO investigation and will be another tool for the IRS Criminal Division investigation.
Then you have Gibbs who has nothing to lose by being a witness in a federal RICO investigation after Steele's fragile ego got butt hurt when Gibbs wouldn't take the fall for Team Prenda, Gibbs may be looking to help investigators from the IRS and Federal Prosecutors to save himself and his law license.
On the post: Prediction: Eventual Appeal In Key Prenda Case Will Be One Worth Reading
Re:
"Otis Wright has gone too far in his misguided attempt to publicly defame a fine, upstanding individual in copyright enforcement, at the behest of Internet trolls of all things, for which Techdirt has become a cesspool"
And then I knew that there was no basis to anything you wrote just your effort to put forth a lets all feel sorry for poor John Steele.
Sorry but if you want absolution for John Steele, better go see a priest, because I doubt your going to get it from any of us.
Steele, Hansmeier and Duffy long ago lost touch with why they became Lawyers and have long forgot what the rules of court are and about.
They have all collectively used copyright litigation not to uphold anyones lawful rights as a way to protect their creative work. but as a bolierplate lawsuit factory designed to do nothing but enrich themselves.
Never mind that soome poor bastard who happens to have an IP address gets a settlement letter from the Prenda gang telling him he infringed some alleged copyrighted work and he need to pay up and settle or be sued and pay untold thousand of dollars and left with legal bills that may no know end.
Never mid that whether this person did it or not, it was your IP address so pay up. Truth be damned, if they dragged some poor bastard into a lawsuit innocent or not, pay up.
And what of thos who did retain counsel and fight? Prenda tried to withdraw rather than fight, they were not concerned with a fight just a quick buck.
If it wasnt for those few who did fight and the defense counsel's who exposed the P[renda gang and their "litigation" and the facts behind it, thios would still be going on and it is under a whole new name.
Sorry but Judge Wright as well as other Judges had defense lawyers bring the facts of the case and the companies and copyrights and tactics in these cases to the courts attention and rightly so as defendant counsel and as officers of the court.
The mere fact that all across the U.S. Judges have chastised and asked hard questions about Prenda litigation is all fair and Steele, Duffy and Hansmeier have no one to balme but themselves for their troubles.
They all stopped long ago in my opinion about upholding the laws and abiding by them and have chosen to use the law to achieve unjust enrichment at the hands of those innocent and not.
I have no respect for Steele, Duffy or Hansmeier, karma is a bitch and they are just seeing their share come back to them
On the post: Team Prenda Gets Even More Ridiculous: Mark Lutz Files Bar Complaint Against Brett Gibbs
Re:
More of the games Steele and Prenda play with the courts, but yet Steele likes to complain how he hasn't been served and feign knowing anything about anything to do with these cases.
On the post: Team Prenda Gets Even More Ridiculous: Mark Lutz Files Bar Complaint Against Brett Gibbs
Re: Re:
On the post: John Steele Keeps Playing Games With Judge Wright
Everyone knows that Steele is the real brains behind Prenda and Hansmeier is right behind him, with Duffy as a distant third.
Steele is playing games he knows it, we know it and Judge Wright knows this as well. Judge Wright in the last hearing that they all had to attend where everyone took the 5th gave the Prenda gang the benefit of the doubt and let them have a continuance and moved the hearing date further on the courts calendar.
Now if you all recall that was because almost everyone from Prenda filed a motion to appear by phone and it got denied, they then asked for another date which Judge Wright granted.
Now could Judge Wright grant Steele and extension, sure he could, but Judge Wright is familiar with the tactics of Prenda which are deny, deny deny and delay, delay, delay.
The mere fact that Steele was using a virtual office so he could say he had no physical office to be served at, no physical office address to be served at, and no fax or phone numbers to be gotten a hold of is just another attempt at avoidance to be served of filings and court directives.
We all know Steele desperately wants to avoid going into a courtroom and having to be sworn in under oath, because you can bet Judge Wright and Pietz would love to have Steele under oath an get it on the court record his answers to many questions.
I think Judge Wright may well grant Steele a further date, Steele however will still have to face the music and appear before Judge Wright.
Steele I imagine will lawyer up though and plead the fifth once again. There is no way he is going to want to get trapped into answering anything by Judge Wright and Pietz.
If Steele does appear I expect Judge Wright is going to grill him about the bond and why Steele is claiming to know nothing about anything with this case when correspondence and his filings show otherwise.
Either way I expect still to come out with some financial penalties out of this hearing.
On the post: Bad Lawyer Tricks, By John Steele
Re:
I wouldn't be surprised if someone does make a query to the court asking any information regarding the deleted e-mail account to be held, we will have to see if a request is made to Judge Wright for this.
Lord knows I think when Steele realised how much of these domains registrations and other information led back to him and his e-mail account I am sure he went into panic mode and deleted it to try and wash some things away, except it only make it looks more suspicious than it already was.
In my opinion Steele is one of those guys who just thinks he is too smart for his own good and that he thought opf every little thing in this scheme, except he wasn't and he has left a trail of evidence that point back to himself.
No wonder he took the fifth
On the post: Bad Lawyer Tricks, By John Steele
My opinion of course but if what Heller has put forth in these documents is true from Rannalo and Pietz's side of the argument then Judge Wright is not going to be a happy camper.
Also did anyone notice that Steele avoids any sworn affdavits or any filings that are under oath so he can not get grilled in court on them if he needs to conveniently have a "refreshed recollection of events" if so warranted to get him out of the crosshairs.
This is standard for anyone associated with Prenda to deny, deny, deny and blame anyone not in the Prenda inner circle and make them the scapegoat.
Prenda still has not posted the 235K bond with Pietz and the court. This hearing in front of Judge Wright should go over real well, especially when he finds out Team Prenda is not living up to his order to communicate with Pietz in regards to the conditions of the bond and the 14 days they had to do it in.
I recall Judge Wright stating in his order they would face an additional 1k a day penalty and he might issue additional sanctions against Team Prenda.
Now that Gibbs seems to realize that Steele is throwing him under the bus, I wonder how much old John is sweating that Gibbs may turn witness is a RICO investigation kicks in and he may also turn witness for the IRS Criminal Division.
It should be interesting, Prenda still has to give answers to Troll Gooodhue for Judge Snow in the Harris case in Arizona as well.
Should be interesting to see how things fair for these clowns in the next while
On the post: Court Skeptical That LA Cops Can Just Look At Any Motel Guest Record Without A Warrant
While I don't believe they should be able to just turn it over on a whim, I would suffice to guess that the hotels have a clause allowing them to use/provide your information (sans credit card) when you sign in.
Most companies nowadays stick in a clause to use your info in their agreements. The mere fact this is a constant occurrence just tells you how information is now a commodity.
If you want my opinion unless the hotel has called the police because you trashed their room or are busting furniture up, then ok I can see them giving it to the cops.
With that being said if the police are there on a fishing expedition with no real cause for the hotel to provide it, I think they should have to get a warrant for it.
Back in 2003 the FBI grabbed records of over 250,000 people that were in Las Vegas over the New Year Holiday because of information about a possible Al Qaida attack that may take place and that was over a period of a few days.
All the hotel and rental records the FBI had collected had been shipped back to Washington for comparison against federal terrorism watch lists.
This isn't new but it has been going on for years, it's just now they are better at it, civil rights are out the window nowadays as is the expectation of privacy.
(Sorry about the double post folks, didn't realise it went through the first time)
On the post: Team Prenda Plays Dumb In Central California, As Brett Gibbs Says They Lied In Northern California
On the post: Team Prenda Plays Dumb In Central California, As Brett Gibbs Says They Lied In Northern California
Steele also used the caretaker of his cabin in Minnesota as a corporate officer on Alan Cooper.
Stelle was going to use his Parrot's name, but decided against this as the Parrot was quite a talker.
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