![]() ![]() one day in February 2020, the ex-partners allege, Wood sent two emails to Todd McMurtry, his co-counsel on the Sandmann cases. But now, the plaintiffs in the case say Wood was already scheming behind the scenes to dupe them out of the settlement money.Īround 3 a.m. For his part, while Wood concedes he described the lawyers as his “partners,” he says they were never truly partners in his firm.Īs part of the firm’s break-up, Wood agreed in a March 2020 agreement to pay his ex-partners an undisclosed amount of what he would receive from Sandmann’s settlements. ![]() Those settlements are now at the center of the lawsuit between Wood and his ex-partners, who quit his practice in 2020 after a series of bizarre incidents involving Wood, including an alleged assault on one of the lawyers. With Wood as one of his attorneys, Sandmann settled cases against CNN and The Washington Postfor undisclosed amounts in 2020. Sandmann’s much-discussed 2019 encounter with a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial created a national media debate and turned the MAGA hat-wearing student into a conservative cause célèbre. While Sandmann is only described as an unnamed “Disputed Client” in legal filings around the case, it’s clear from details in the motions that he’s the person being described. Since September 2020, Wood and three former partners in his office-Nicole Wade, Jonathan Grunberg, and Taylor Wilson-have been locked in a legal fight over the fate of an undisclosed amount of money from settlements involving former Kentucky high school student Nick Sandmann. Wood is already facing an unrelated potential disbarment in his home state of Georgia after refusing to take a mental-health exam. In August, a federal judge in Michigan referred Wood, Sidney Powell, and other lawyers involved in a 2020 election case to their state bars for potential suspension or disbarment, and ordered them to pay legal fees that could run into hundreds of thousands of dollars. While Wood made his name as a lawyer for people like falsely accused Atlanta Olympics bombing suspect Richard Jewell, he’s since faced a series of professional setbacks after pivoting toward hunting vaporous evidence of “voter fraud” and promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory. Making matters worse for Wood, his one-time partners say he wrote the alleged scheme down in a series of late-night emails-documents they now have. ![]() And wasn’t Justice Kavanaugh initially appointed to the federal judiciary by Bush 43? We sure know a lot more about Boy George now than we did a few months/years ago, don’t we? Just sayin.Embattled pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood could soon be in even more legal hot water, following allegations by former law partners that he lied to a judge and covered up a scheme to steal their share of settlements involving former Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann. Perhaps he should have shown more wisdom before giving a pass to an unconstitutional election. Not a good development for Brett in my opinion. A man of true faith would never quietly allow a lie to prevail over TRUTH. He allowed a lie to escape judicial review. Much more troubling is his refusal to vote for a review of the November 2020 election cases. He has rendered some opinions inconsistent with his alleged conservative judicial philosophy. I am not so much of a Kavanaugh supporter now. Sheldon Whitehouse’s request that Merrick Garland re-open the investigation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh? I was a vocal supporter of Justice Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing even though there was one area of his substantive testimony that did not seem credible to me. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |