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Anti-Monsanto Lawyer And USRTK, Carey Gillam Collaborator Possibly Headed To Prison For Extortion
American Council on Science and Health ^ | 06/24/20 | Alex Berezow

Posted on 07/01/2020 4:01:52 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX

Surely, Timothy Litzenburg is a wealthy man. As one of the lead plaintiffs' attorneys suing Monsanto over the alleged (but factually incorrect) claim that its product Roundup (glyphosate) causes cancer, he likely has had several nice paydays in recent years as the company has been slammed with one jackpot verdict after another. Lawsuits have cost its parent company, Bayer, billions of dollars.

The trouble with money, however, is that no matter how much you have, you never really have enough. You always want more.

Litzenburg wanted more, too, and he knew just how to do it. After seeing how easy it was to use junk science and sympathetic cancer patients (who Litzenburg referred to as a "parade of horribles"), he threatened to unleash hell on a different company called Nouryon unless they cooperated with him. And by "cooperated," I mean capitulated to his extortion scheme. Instead, according to the Wall Street Journal, Nouryon called the U.S. Department of Justice.

That's when things began to unravel for Litzenburg and his partner-in-crime (ahem, law partner) Daniel Kincheloe, who on Friday pleaded guilty to the attempted extortion of $200 million from Nouryon. According to local ABC News affiliate WHSV, they admitted to threatening to financially destroy the company unless it forked over $200 million in "consulting fees." If Nouryon agreed, Litzenburg admitted that he would try to lose any case against the company and deter further litigation.

Unbelievably, they also admitted that they weren't going to give any of this money to their clients -- you know, the cancer patients they claim to be helping. Instead, they intended to keep all the money for themselves and their associates.

(Excerpt) Read more at acsh.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: cancer; careygillam; classaction; danielkincheloe; doj; econuts; extortion; frivolouselawsuits; frivolouslawsuits; gillam; glyphosate; gmocrops; gmos; junkscience; juries; kincheloe; lawsuits; litzenberg; litzenburg; monsanto; nouryon; righttoknow; roundup; science; timothylitzenburg; usrighttoknow; waronmonsanto; weedkiller
The anti-science scaremongers are not operating out of pure motives. As always, follow the money.
1 posted on 07/01/2020 4:01:52 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

Litzenburg.


2 posted on 07/01/2020 4:39:59 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Did these idiots learn nothing from Creepy Porn Lawyer?


3 posted on 07/01/2020 5:03:47 PM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

I wonder how they tend to vote.


4 posted on 07/01/2020 5:24:40 PM PDT by coloradan (The Enemy Media isn't chartered to inform but rather to advance the interests of certain elites.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

OMG, the article was a hoot. I read it to hubby and he made me print a copy.


5 posted on 07/01/2020 6:27:41 PM PDT by tiki (Obamagate)
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To: tiki

Yes, it was rather the feel-good post of the day. :-)


6 posted on 07/01/2020 6:40:14 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy." - Franz Kafka)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Very good news. Thanks for posting.


7 posted on 07/01/2020 7:07:06 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Incredibly light sentence for the magnitude of the crime.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/virginia-attorneys-sentenced-attempting-extort-multinational-chemicals-company#:~:text=Two%20Virginia%20attorneys%20were%20sentenced,as%20a%20purported%20%E2%80%9Cconsulting%20agreement


8 posted on 06/04/2024 11:58:09 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Interesting, this US Right to Know organization was tied up with the lawyers that got convicted for extortion in going after Monsanto, etc.


9 posted on 06/04/2024 12:07:59 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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