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Posted on 04/13/2009 1:45:38 AM PDT by dennisw
The bank has instructed Wall Street law firm Chadbourne & Parke to pursue blogger Mike Morgan, warning him in a recent cease-and-desist letter that he may face legal action if he does not close down his website.
Florida-based Mr Morgan began a blog entitled "Facts about Goldman Sachs" – the web address for which is goldmansachs666.com
According to Chadbourne & Parke's letter, dated April 8, the bank is rattled because the site "violates several of Goldman Sachs' intellectual property rights" and also "implies a relationship" with the bank itself.
Unsurprisingly for a man who has conjoined the bank's name with the Number of the Beast – although he jokingly points out that 666 was also the S&P500's bear-market bottom – Mr Morgan is unlikely to go down without a fight.
On a special section of his blog entitled "Goldman Sachs vs Mike Morgan" he predicts that the fight will probably end up in court.
"It's just another example of how a bully like Goldman Sachs tries to throw their weight around," he writes.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Mr Morgan explained how he went through a similar battle with US homebuilder Lennar a few years ago after he set up a website to collect information on what he alleged was shoddy workmanship in its homes. The pair eventually settled out of court.
"Since I went through this with Lennar, I've had advice from some of the best intellectual property lawyers, and I know exactly what I can and can't do. We're not going to back down from this," he promises.
Mr Morgan adds that if Goldman manages to shut down his site, he has a number of other domain names registered.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Ping for later reading.
GS666...go back and read the FR comments when Hank Paulson was nominated as GWB’s Treasury Sec. Looked like a lot of FReepers thought Paulson was just da mand for the job. Ya that’s the ticket!
Michael Savage was onto Paulson since day one. Fell on deaf ears as they say.
Quit dissin me or I’ll tell. Whaaaa!
I bet that act just gave obama,s PR people an idea.
Savage grew up in NYC so “gets” the mentality of a lot of these grifters and may know some second hand’
Bump for later read.
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I wouldn’t have known about this site but for this article. Now I’ll have to check it out!
Does he have GoldmanSachsSucks.com? :-)
OUCH, this is gonna smart.....
Lol, good mucical post devolve.
That ‘Gold Finger’ sure glitters.
MUSICAL !! Too much chocolate yesterday....
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Thanks potlatch!
LOL!
You are such a good spealar
It was a ‘finger’ mess up!
Thanks for the ping.
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