Tag Archives: Sidney Powell

Judge Orders Kraken Lawyers To Pay Michigan $175K

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 …

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Florida GOP Chairman Has Dinner With The Kraken

Florida Politics reports: Republican Party of Florida Chairman Joe Gruters met last week with controversial lawyer Sidney Powell in Sarasota. While not embracing specific accusations Powell has made against election officials around the country, he characterized his conversation as informative. “It’s important to listen to every side and she brought up a lot of good points,” Gruters told Florida Politics. …

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Feds Investigate Kraken’s Funding For Election Suits

The Daily Beast reports: The federal probe, which has not been previously reported, is examining the finances of Defending the Republic, an organization founded by Powell to fund her “Kraken” lawsuits to overturn the 2020 election, the sources said. According to two of the people familiar with the matter, a grand jury was empaneled, and subpoenas and documents requests have …

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BOOK: Kraken Lawyer Pushed For “Special Ops Mission” To “Rescue Kidnapped CIA Director” From The Germans

ABC News reports: “Betrayal reports that Sydney Powell, Michael Flynn’s former lawyer who was then advising President Trump, called senior Trump intelligence official Ezra Cohen and tried to enlist his help with one the most far-fetched claims about the election, involving then-CIA Director Gina Haspel. “Gina Haspel has been hurt and taken into custody in Germany,” Powell told Cohen, pushing …

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Kraken Lawyer Sues Pentagon Over Vaccine Mandate

The Hill reports: Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell is suing the Department of Defense, seeking to block the Pentagon from enforcing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Powell’s Texas-based group Defending the Republic announced Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on behalf of 16 active-duty service members “in support of their right to refuse” the coronavirus vaccine. …

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Kraken Lawyer Banished From Trump Properties

The Daily Beast reports: Being Sidney Powell is harder than it used to be. Once, she was a key player in Donald Trump’s inner circle. These days, she might have trouble just getting in the front door. The “Kraken” queen long ago removed herself from acceptability among the more respectable GOP circles with a constant stream of bizarre election conspiracy …

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Kraken Lawyer Countersues Dominion For Suing Her

Bloomberg News reports: Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell sued the voting-technology company she falsely accused of rigging the 2020 presidential election, accusing it of trashing her reputation by taking her to court. Powell, in a series of counterclaims filed late Friday against Dominion Voting Systems Inc., claimed the company’s earlier $1.3 billion defamation suit against her was a “ludicrous” …

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Kraken Lawyer Sidney Powell Claims Democrats Killed Aide To Then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler To Stop Georgia Audit

Mediaite reports: Appearing last week on far-right preacher Andrew Wommack’s Gospel Truth TV, Sidney Powell alleged that a staffer to then-Senator Kelly Loeffler had been murdered. That staffer, Harrison Deal, 20, was killed in December after his vehicle was involved in a multi-vehicle accident. “I think what we are dealing with here is pervasive and very, very dark,” said Powell. …

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Michigan Demands Kraken Lawyers Fork Over $200,000

Reuters reports: Michigan officials on Wednesday demanded that lawyers who unsuccessfully sued to overturn former President Donald Trump’s election defeat in the state pay about $200,000 to reimburse for legal fees and related costs. U.S. District Judge Linda Parker ruled last month that state and local election officials in Michigan were entitled to reimbursement of their legal fees, but has …

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Federal Court Sanctions Cultist Kraken Lawyers

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 …

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Cultists Lose Bid To Toss Dominion’s Defamation Suits

Forbes reports: Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuits against the attorneys Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell can move forward, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, dismissing the Trump allies’ motions to have the billion-dollar litigation thrown out over procedural issues and claims that they didn’t defame Dominion with their discredited allegations that the company was …

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Judge Scorches Kraken Lawyers At Sanctions Hearing

The Insider reports: A federal judge on Monday excoriated a group of Republican-aligned lawyers including Sidney Powell and L. Lin Wood over their legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. US District Judge Linda Parker made the comments at an contentious hearing — that took place on Zoom — whose purpose was to determine whether the lawyers should face …

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Kraken Accused Of Running Unregistered FL Charity

The Florida Phoenix reports: Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried filed an administrative complaint on Friday against an organization tied to former Trump attorney Sidney Powell, alleging it is soliciting donations without registering as a charity with Fried’s agency. Fried’s department alleges multiple violations of Florida charities law against Defending the Republic Inc., including failure to register and …

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Kraken Lawyers To Face Sanctions In Michigan Hearing

The Detroit Free Press reports: Federal judge Linda Parker ordered Sidney Powell and other attorneys who had represented President Donald Trump in an election results dispute last year to appear in court at 2 p.m. July 6. Michigan AG Dana Nessel has asked the court to sanction Powell, a Texas lawyer, along with Michigan attorneys Greg Rohl, Scott Hagerstrom and …

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The Kraken Denies Michael Flynn Said What He Said

“I think the first order of business this morning is to dispel a horrible incident of fake news. The fake news has grossly distorted what General Flynn said yesterday in response to a question about Myanmar. “There are no circumstances under which he urged the military to take any action to unseat the president. “We all know our that in …

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Kraken Tells QAnon Crowd: Trump Can Be “Reinstated”

Newsweek reports: Attorney Sidney Powell, who filed baseless 2020 election challenges on behalf of former President Donald Trump, insisted on Saturday that the Republican politician “can simply be reinstated”—continuing to promote conspiracy theories and misinformation about President Joe Biden’s victory. Powell made the remarks during the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” conference in Dallas this weekend. Also speaking at …

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Florida Investigates Kraken Lawyer’s Lawsuits Fund

From Grant Stern’s Substack newsletter: Investigators for the state of Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) have an active investigation into Defending The Republic and defendingtherepublic.org, which is both a website and the center of a nebulous cluster of companies run by attorney Sidney Powell. Public records reveal an ongoing “Administrative Complaint” tied to Powell against Defending The …

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TX QAnon Fundraiser To Feature Cavalcade Of Crazies: Sidney Powell, Lin Wood, Louie Gohmert, Allen West

The Dallas Observer reports: Although we’re not exactly sure where, the QAnon-affiliated For God & Country Patriot Roundup is supposedly still on in Dallas over Memorial Day weekend. The lineup of speakers includes retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the ex-national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, and Sidney Powell, formerly a lawyer for both Flynn and Trump. With …

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Kraken Lawyer Accused Of Misusing Defense Fund

The Washington Post reports: Former Trump attorney and self-proclaimed “Kraken releaser” Sidney Powell has told prospective donors that her group, Defending the Republic, is a legal defense fund to protect the integrity of U.S. elections. But the company suing Powell over her baseless claims of a rigged presidential election says the true beneficiary of her social welfare organization is Powell …

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WI: The Kraken’s Motion On Sanctions Is Sanctionable

Law & Crime reports: Lawyers representing Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) on Wednesday said that a motion submitted by attorneys Sidney Powell, Howard Kleinhendler, Michael D. Dean, and Daniel J. Eastman was so improper that the filing merits its own sanctions. The motion in question was filed on behalf of a local GOP official seeking to avoid reimbursing the state …

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