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Law & Crime reports: A federal judge in Georgia has ordered former defamation attorney L. Lin Wood to give the court $2 million in cash as well as two properties he owns to secure a bond as he appeals a multimillion dollar judgment levied against him for defaming his former law partners. A onetime pro-Donald Trump lawyer, long recognized as …

Law & Crime reports: Pro-Donald Trump defamation attorney L. Lin Wood must pay three of his former law partners a combined $4.5 million after he was found liable for defaming them on social media, a jury on Friday determined. In March, a federal judge ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor on a motion for summary judgment — finding Wood liable but …

Law & Crime reports: Pro-Donald Trump defamation attorney L. Lin Wood was found liable for defaming his former law partners by a federal court on Tuesday. Attorneys Nicole Wade, Jonathan Grunberg, and Taylor Wilson have been feuding with Wood since February 2020 over the terms of their departure from his law firm. After a series of abortive agreements and legal …

CNN reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revisit sanctions levied against two pro-Trump attorneys who filed frivolous lawsuits challenging the outcome of the 2020 election in Michigan. Sidney Powell and Lin Wood filed separate appeals asking the justices to review sanctions imposed by a US district court in 2021. Though their cases involved several technical arguments, both claimed …

The Messenger reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told a judge on Wednesday that at least six attorneys for former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants may have conflicts of interest in the sprawling racketeering case. “The State requests that the Court inquire into these circumstances and take such appropriate remedial measures as it deems necessary to ensure that the rights …

“Anyone who suggests that my voluntary retirement from the GA B.A.R. was out of fear of disbarment, does not know me or has not followed me very long on Telegram. My retirement request to the GA B.A.R. was planned and timed in the manner and timing of my choice after much prayer and time spent reading the Holy Bible. Through …

Mediaite reports: Lin Wood, an outspoken advocate of the conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from former president Donald Trump in the courtroom and the court of public opinion has agreed to retire from the law rather than be disbarred in the state of Georgia. In a letter addressed to the general counsel and executive director of …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Election security advocates called for federal investigations Tuesday of a “coordinated plot” by former President Donald Trump’s supporters to copy election software in Georgia, Michigan and Nevada after the 2020 election. The request urged Jack Smith, the U.S. Department of Justice’s special counsel investigating Trump, to pursue the multistate data-copying effort as part of his probe …

Reuters reports: Conservative attorney L. Lin Wood said he had been subpoenaed to appear before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “The devil is after me today!!!” Wood said in a statement shared on Telegram late on Friday. “The Fulton County DA attacks me as …

Reuters reports: Conservative attorney L. Lin Wood cannot sue to block the Georgia state bar from seeking a mental health exam as part of its investigation into his conduct, a federal appeals court said today. The Georgia bar previously said in court filings that the mental health evaluation is part of its investigation into Wood, who allegedly physically assaulted two …

Law & Crime reports: Three of pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood’s former law partners sued him in federal court on Thursday, claiming that they received a physical threats after he smeared them as “deep state” extortionists on his more than 800,000-follower strong Telegram account. Those ex-partners, Nicole Wade, Jonathan Grunberg, and Taylor Wilson, have been embroiled in litigation with Wood in …

Forbes reports: Attorneys including Sidney Powell and Lin Wood will have to pay more than $175,000 in attorneys fees to Michigan officials and the city of Detroit, a federal judge ruled Thursday, as part of sanctions the court had previously imposed against the attorneys for their lawsuit attempting to overturn the presidential election results. U.S. District Judge Linda Parker ordered …

The Daily Beast reports: Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has embraced his position as a hero to QAnon conspiracy theorists. He took the QAnon oath, sold QAnon T-shirts, and even auctioned off a QAnon quilt. He appeared at a QAnon convention and signed books with a QAnon slogan. Some QAnon followers even believe that Flynn is “Q,” the …

Well, this is going to be super fun: It’s funny how things change with enough time and just the right set of political circumstances. The New Yorker’s Charles Bethea clearly agrees, since he put together a flawless illustration of the broken relationship between Lin Wood and Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Before Wood rose to public notoriety for his role …

The Chicago Tribune reports: With the ink barely dry on his acquittals, Kyle Rittenhouse is expected to face another legal battle soon over the $2 million bail posted after his arrest. Rittenhouse’s attorneys filed a motion shortly after the verdict, arguing that the money should be given to the teenager because it was raised on his behalf. Another party, however, …

Newsweek reports: Prominent Trump supporters attorney Lin Wood and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, are feuding in public after Wood accused Greene of being “a communist.” “In my opinion, Marjorie Taylor Greene is a communist,” Wood said in Friday remarks. “If Marjorie Taylor Greene is running around saying ‘impeach Biden,’ that says that Biden won—he didn’t,” the attorney …

Mediaite reports: A leading face of the effort to overturn the 2020 election results, attorney and Donald Trump loyalist Lin Wood put a different conspiracy theory forward in a clip going viral on Twitter when he suggested the planes that hit the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 were CGI and a missile was fired at the Pentagon as part …

Newsweek reports: A woman who became the center of a harassment campaign against a Chicago hospital as QAnon supporters demanded they treat her COVID-19 diagnosis with ivermectin has died, according to reports. Veronica Wolski, a popular QAnon advocate best known for hanging banners from a bridge in Chicago, died in the early hours of Monday morning after spending weeks in …

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: Key backers of the QAnon conspiracy theory are carrying out a coordinated campaign against a Northwest Side hospital that has refused to prescribe an unapproved drug to treat one of the group’s followers for COVID-19. QAnon supporters have in recent days targeted Amita Resurrection Medical Center with a small in-person protest and a flood of phone …

Forbes reports: A federal judge in Michigan sanctioned pro-Trump attorneys including Sidney Powell and Lin Wood that alleged widespread election fraud Wednesday, ruling the attorneys should face a range of punishments—including undergoing legal education and potentially facing disbarment—for their lawsuit that attempted to overturn President Joe Biden’s win in the state. The Michigan sanctions motion was one of a number …