Posted on 01/07/2024 7:11:58 PM PST by SeafoodGumbo
Nelson said the federal government returned 85% of their seized funds in February of 2022, with the agreement that they would not sue the government.
WTAF???
thx for the recap with the so called ‘claims,’ although i assumed that all civil lawsuits involve claims of various kinds (contractual, law, etc.) i hadn’t seen those.
my statement about ‘no charges’ was taken directly from the post. i’ll quote to get it exactly right for you:
“All the while, no charges have been filed and all of the evidence points to the Nelsons being innocent.”
so that’s not me. that’s from the post.
first not a lawyer so i’m going to be talking out of my own hat here somewhat, (full disclosure).
in terms of the lack of ‘charges,’ you may be mistaken in conflating those with what you are calling ‘claims.’ when i think of charges, i think of criminal charges on which a person has been indicted by a grand jury, or charged with by the police. which may not be ‘claims’ in a lawsuit between two parties, as you say.
from the post, given the quote, i assumed it meant that the DOJ has filed no charges in the case which would at least give them some moral justification for civil asset forfeiture, imho. not being a lawyer, i may be wrong about that.
anyway, my opinion stands that if there has been no indictment by a jury (or a real charges filed against the man, by the DOJ, not just a garden variety lawsuit filed by Amazon who is obviously biased) then the DOJ is likely being influenced by bezos, acting tyrannically, taking the facts on their face presented in the post.
May 2019, Washington State Governor Inslee signs into law, a non-compete bill, “raising the bar [that] employers will need to meet . . . controversial covenants” in non-compete agreements.
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/washington-state-legislators-pass-law-restricting-non-compete-agreements/
In 2020, Amazon files complaints against Carl Nelson, a real estate broker, who (with others) was involved in some kind of real estate deal, where Amazon feels that Amazon got the short end of the stick.
Amazon attempts to make a case that Carl Nelson was in violation of a non-compete agreement between Amazon and Carl Nelson.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17338366/amazoncom-inc-v-wdc-holdings-llc/?page=1
On Thursday [April 6, 2023], U.S. District Judge Rossie Alston Jr. ruled that [Carl] Nelson and another Amazon employee did not breach their contract with Amazon. A ‘reasonable reading’ of that contract ‘undermines Amazon’s argument,’ Alston wrote.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/after-3-years-seattles-amy-nelson-still-fighting-amazon-and-doj/
On the other hand, Amazon was able to raise a stink about Carl Nelson’s real estate activities in the State of Virginia:
“The [Amazon] lawsuit [re non-compete] is riding sidecar to a Byzantine legal back-and-forth between Amazon and [Carl] Nelson, who is being investigated by the FBI after Amazon reported to the agency that he had orchestrated a kickback scheme related to data center leases in Northern Virginia — claims Nelson has strenuously denied.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/judges-ruling-adds-to-legal-saga-over-how-amazon-enforces-noncompete-agreements/
Carl Nelson is under the DoJ/FBI microscope:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.500840/gov.uscourts.vaed.500840.1.0.pdf
To wit:
Carl Nelson is in trouble. See page 5 of that PDF file, for details on the mechanism(s) of the alleged scheme.
I figured it probably wasn’t you. 🙂 Thanks for clarifying the source though. 🙂
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