99. In late November 2000, Plaintiff learned that, contrary to Levin’s promises and representations in
late July 2000 about respecting the proprietary nature of Plaintiff’s business relationship with Oto, Levin
had set up a U.S. subsidiary of Venture Soft Co., Ltd., called Venture Soft USA, Inc., on Oto’s behalf. On
information and belief, Levin received a fee of at least $100,000 from Oto for his services and for
introducing Oto to the President.
Peter Paul’s Declaration to Support the Amended Complaint Dismissed Because of the comma after November 2000
5 Through the new amended complaint I could more accurately be characterized as a “disgruntled business associate” complaining of the breach of various fiduciary duties purportedly created between the First Family and me in connection with promises they convinced me they had made to work together after Bill Clinton left the White House. President Clinton’s malicious interference in the funding of my company (in the midst of the dot-com meltdown in 2000) by hijacking my Japanese partner and largest investor in my company —Tendo Oto — and going into business with him, himself, is the real gravamen of my claim.
6 Over my objection, Judicial Watch ignored these claims relating to President Clinton’s role in the collapse of my company, resulting in damages of more than $30 million to me, in addition to the out-of-pocket $1.9 million Judicial Watch recited in the complaint. Judicial Watch drafted their pleadings to highlight exclusively my underwriting and producing of three campaign fundraising events for Hillary Clinton (which I did at the request and direction of President Clinton) thereby infecting my tort claims with Judicial Watch’s political agenda, not my own.
8.The proposed Second Amended Complaint more accurately presents the gravamen of my grievance against the defendants. In summary, my claims emanate from the deliberate actions of President Clinton and his agents to falsely convince me that he had agreed to a post-White House business arrangement, which enabled President Clinton to secretly usurp my relationship with Tendo Oto, thereby depriving my company, Stan Lee Media, of Oto’s promised, and critically needed, operating funds. This malicious interference began the “domino effect” that collapsed my company. My monetary damages exceeded $30 million in stock and option losses, exclusive of consequential damages that ensued. That injury — much more devastating to me than being duped and coerced into spending close to $1.9 million to benefit Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign — was buried in the pleadings drafted by Judicial Watch.
Well, as a self-annointed representative of the grammar police, I fail to see why the comma makes any difference at all. It is still absolutely clear what the sentence means. If he didn’t “learn” in late November, then what does the judge think “Late November” refers to? Or is it somehow just dangling out there referring to nothing?
As you say, however, the fix was in. If not for the comma, he would have found some other lame excuse to dismiss.