Al Gore Sues Al Jazeera Over TV Deal

NYT ^ | AUG. 15, 2014 | EMILY STEEL

[Daffynition]

Former Vice President Al Gore has filed a lawsuit against the Middle Eastern media group Al Jazeera, accusing it of fraud and breach of contract in its $500 million purchase of Mr. Gore’s Current TV cable channel.

The dispute centers on Al Jazeera’s refusal to turn over “tens of millions of dollars” remaining in an escrow account and still owed to the selling shareholders of Current TV, according to a statement from David Boies, the lawyer representing Mr. Gore and a Current TV co-owner, Joel Hyatt, who are suing on behalf of all the selling shareholders.

“Al Jazeera America wants to give itself a discount on the purchase price that was agreed to nearly two years ago,” Mr. Boies said. “We are asking the court to order Al Jazeera America to stop wrongfully withholding the escrow funds that belong to Current’s former shareholders.”

[Daffynition]

Not so strange bedfellows.

[Daffynition]

Ominously missing was the creator of Current, the self proclaimed inventor of the Internet and savior of clean energy, Al Gore, although his partner, Joel Hyatt, stood proudly with the Al Jazeera honchos.

“Of course Al didn’t show up,” said one high placed Current staffer. “He has no credibility.

“He’s supposed to be the face of clean energy and just sold [the channel] to very big oil, the emir of Qatar! Current never even took big oil advertising—and Al Gore, that bulls***ter sells to the emir?”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2013/01/08/current-tv-staffers-upset-blast-bulls-ter-al-gore-selling-out-big

[Cowboy Bob]

David Boies is the lawyer? Where have I heard that name before???

[Dixie Yooper]

David Boies is the lawyer? Where have I heard that name before???

He's the attorney who lost the greatest case of Al Gore's life...

[Liz]

Environmental Al flaunts it as "the face of clean energy." But he doesn't mind profiting from Very Big oil interests----and the Sharia-loving Emir of Qatar (where the Gitmo Five terrorists relocated in the Bergdahl swap---now living in the lap of luxury).

BTW, speaking of Qatar ...... w/ a straight face, Hillary recently told Greta the Gitmo Five are NOT a problem to the US. BUT...due to her "concussion" (cackle) Hillary completely forgot to mention the Qatar/Clinton connection.

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REFERENCE---QATAR DONOR TO CLINTON FOUNDATION/LIBRARY: As Hollywood hotshots protest the Beverly Hills Hotel over its ownership by Brunei's sultan and his embrace of Sharia law, it turns out the Brunei government has financial connections to "The Clinton Foundation."

The tax-exempt, nonprofit Clinton foundation lists Brunei along with Kuwait, Oman and Qatar (new home of the Gitmo Five) as donors that gave between $1 million and $5 million (to date).

The Clinton foundation itself confirmed the 2002 Brunei donation: "The Clinton Foundation's impact would not be possible without the generous support of our donors," the foundation's website reads. "Their contributions have made a difference in the lives of tens of millions across the world." Read more at foxnews.com ...

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There's also a Harry Reid connection to the tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" (one of the three Clinton tax-exempt foundations_.

PUT ON YOUR TINFOIL HATS TO CONNECT THE DOTS:

(1) Harry Reid's son Rory is in business w/ the Chi/Coms on a multi-billion dollar solar energy project; Cliven Bundy and his land are standing in the way.

(2) Reports say Bill Clinton recently went to China to panhandle for his tax-exempt "Clinton Global Initiative" foundation.

(3) The "Clinton Global Initiative" (NOT KNOWN for giving out grants)---gave Harry Reid's granddaughter a grant for a Brooklyn, NY theatre she runs (what is a Brooklyn theatre's connection to "global initiatives?")

(4) A Nevada energy company also gave Reid's granddaughter's theatre group a grant.

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"Money laundering" comes to mind. Could the Chinese be financing the Reid's solar project through donations to the Clinton Foundations....which is then laundered to Reid's granddaughter?

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REFERENCE----HARRY REID IS LIVID THAT HIS GRAND-DAUGHTER HAS BEEN OUTED AS A RECIPIENT OF LAUNDERED CAMPAIGN CASH---Reid lashed out at reporters, saying, “My granddaughter has been the target of harassing phone calls, strangers tracking her down, knocking on her door and negative, unwanted attention on the Internet.” “This has gone too far and it needs to stop now,” Reid said. “I deeply regret any role I had in creating this situation but now, as a grandparent, I say enough is enough.”

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Besides the "jewelry company" financed by her grandfather, Ryan Elisabeth Reid runs the Sprat Theater Company, a small theater in Brooklyn, which is also coming under scrutiny. According to Sprat’s Theatre Company Web site, it has received grants/contributions from:

<><> the Clinton Global Initiative (connected to global terrorism via Muslim Brotherhood employee),
<><> two major Las Vegas foundations:
Caesar’s Foundation, and the NV Energy Foundation.

NOTE NV Energy Foundation---is a non-profit division of NV Energy (a public utility). The NV Energy utility is a subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company which took over in 2013....and is now owned by a Warren Buffet unit.

BTW, here's Harry w/ his grand-daughter....the one who got $31,000 in laundered campaign funds for her "jewelry company" and grants from Clinton and Nevada energy foundations.

Reid and granddaughter Ryan Elisabeth Reid.

[NonValueAdded]

Maybe Al Jiz discovered the true value of Current

[Gen.Blather]

“David Boies is the lawyer? Where have I heard that name before???
He’s the attorney who lost the greatest case of Al Gore’s life...
“

I read that both sides stiffed their attorneys and that Gore hired a Republican and Bush hired a Democrat. (Any truth to that?)

[CTyank]

Unsee!!! Unseee!!!!

The ugly..... it burns!!

[Izzy Dunne]

David Boies - Where have I heard that name before???

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!

[GraceG]

Bet Gore is wishing he had sold his broadcast license for current to the Blaze......

But hey, it was more about making a ton of oil/blood/Islamist money as well and denying access to cable and satellite TV a somewhat more conservative channel..

[GOPJ]

I’m always amazed useful idiots on the left never see it coming.

What is it about the left makes these people so gullible? Any ideas?

[Dixie Yooper]

I read that both sides stiffed their attorneys and that Gore hired a Republican and Bush hired a Democrat. (Any truth to that?)

Bush hired Ted Olson to be the Solicitor General of the United States during his first term. His wife (a Freeper) was on the plane that hit the pentagon on 9/11. David Boies was a un kept, disheveled looking person. His hair and suit always looked a mess, and his rhetoric was pitiful. I didn't bother keeping track of what happened to him until I read this article.

[Beagle8U]

This is one of those cases that you hope drags on for years and years, financially ruining both parties.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Popman]

Bet Gore is wishing he had sold his broadcast license for current to the Blaze......

Nope...the hard left will eventually forgive Owl Gore for selling his "Current" license Al Jiz, but never forgive him for selling to Beck...

Political ideology always triumphs over environmental ideology...

Remember to the hard left politics IS their religion...

[Daveinyork]

Please forgive the crocodile tears for Algore.

[Farmer Dean]

If we figure in Gore’s ill-gotten gains for his global warming scam against the loss of money from the cable channel-it may about be a wash.Ain’t Karma a bitch Al?

[SueRae]

Nice dot-connecting, Liz. I wasn’t aware of some of these; only heard a brief mention of Rory Reid’s solar venture. Thanks for those links.

[fedupjohn]

Wow! One Fraud suing another Fraud for ‘Fraud’. LOL!