Billionaire Leon Black on Wednesday filed a federal defamation lawsuit against California Rep. Robert Garcia for public comments the Democratic congressman made tying him to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
The court filing comes less than two months after the House approved a resolution holding Black in contempt of Congress for defying the Oversight Committee’s subpoenas in its investigation into Epstein.
In June, Black appeared for a voluntary interview at the committee during which he denied any knowledge of Epstein’s sex trafficking network.
Weeks later, Garcia said during a TV interview that “Leon Black is at the center of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes” and that Black “was one of the last people to actually interact” with Epstein before he committed suicide in prison.
Yes! Discovery time!
trump the pedophile will tell him to drop the suit
Probably, but I still want to believe that one day the legal system will catch up to these fools and we will finally find out for sure who, besides the obvious, participated in that vile affair.
It’s not defamation if it’s true.
Well discovery is going to be fun.
Let’s see the discovery!
Is there a legal fund for Garcia?
Expect hundreds of millions $.
Call it the Streisand Effect Fund.Nobody ever said billionaires were smart.
I personally would have just denied it rather than open myself up to discovery.
Why haven’t they charged him with contempt of court for disobeying a lawful subpoena?
Because the House Oversight Committee chair makes those decisions, and until January 3 that chair is James Comer of Kentucky, who does not have the taste for making the well-heeled uncomfortable by placing them under oath.
Comer, along with Clay Higgins of Louisiana, have blocked SO many subpoenas – except for the ones involving the Clintons and other Dems, of course, and then he was all for subpoenaing them and forcing them to attend. Comer is the reason Pam Bondi never testified under oath, for example.
But committees are ALL about party membership. Today, Robert Garcia is the ranking member (like vice chair, where the leader of the minority party sits) of the House Oversight Committee, which is handling the Epstein investigations in Congress in spite of the FBI who should be handling them in the Dept of Justice but is not, and James Comer is chair.
But all this changes on January 3. When the new Congress is seated, a new House Oversight Committee will be formed, and it is very likely that Robert Garcia – who just won his re-election in CA-42 – will become chair. (No idea what will become of Comer and frankly don’t care.)
Because Garcia is likely to become the new chair, that makes this lawsuit a strategic choice by Black to put pressure on the committee and the new chair himself to drop his efforts against Black. We’ll see how it pans out.
Hell yeah, let’s get to discovering some stuff.
That won’t save you Leon.
Get Trump first. Then Leon Black.
No. You gotta go for the less powerful first. They’re the ones that are gonna flip and start talking about the bigger ones in an attempt to save their own asses.
Good point.
There’s enough lawyers to go after both and more.
Yes, but if the initial case fails you can’t charge them again. If you want a successful case, you gotta build up the evidence.
For sure. Definitely build the case for everyone and charge those that have enough evidence when possible. That will likely mean the grunts will get nailed first, and hopefully those cases can be used to take down the bigger players.
Enron style!
