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  • Phaedra Parks Responds to Fraud Rumors in Affidavit

    Real Housewives of Atlanta reality star Phaedra Parks recently came forward stating that she had no involvement in any fraudulent acts.

    Parks’ husband, Apollo Nida, is currently facing prison time for identity theft, stolen cars, and bank frauds if he doesn’t reach a plea deal by April 25.

    Throughout the entire ordeal, Parks has appeared to be quite calm about the matter. So, it’s no surprise that at least one person would be a little suspicious about Parks’ impartiality.

    One published author asserts that the RHOA celebrity was the mastermind behind all of it and not Nida-as many have claimed.

    Angela Stanton, the writer of Lies of a Real Housewife, argues that her former friend and lawbreaking partner certainly played a major part in Nida’s swindles.

    In the book, Stanton mentions how the “crooked snake” and her hubby were both in charge of a “criminal enterprise.”

    The allegations were soon followed by a defamation lawsuit after the book was published in 2o12.

    New information now displays Parks’ response to the rumors.

    She decided to defend her reputation in an affidavit, which was filed March 31 in Gwinnett County, Georgia.

    Parks plans to use the court documents as evidence against Stanton.

    According to the written statement:

    Due to the falsity of the material in the book, and to protect her reputation, on or about September 26, 2012, [Parks] filed a defamation action against [Stanton].

    Stanton knew the statements she made about the plaintiff were false when she made them. I have no knowledge of or connection with any ‘bank fraud scheme and was never involved in any criminal enterprise with [Stanton].

    I have never been arrested for a crime or charged with any crime, I have never been questioned by any law enforcement agency about any possible involvement in a crime. I have never been involved in any criminal schemes with Defendant Stanton or anyone else. I have never committed any crime other than routine traffic violations.

    What do you think? Is Parks really capable of fraud?

    Well, if so, that’s surely not how a ‘southern belle’ is supposed to conduct oneself.

    View Part One of Stanton’s tell-all interview:

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  • Glenn Beck Faces Defamation Lawsuit by Boston Marathon Victim

    Political commentator Glenn Beck is being sued for defaming a Saudi Arabian man injured during the Boston Marathon bombings last April 2013.

    The bombing, which took the lives of three people and injured more than 200 event-goers, was said to be the doing of two brothers from Russia.

    Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was detained, charged with 30 federal charges, and currently awaits trial in November. If convicted he may face the death penalty.

    His accomplice and older brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died in a shootout with police officers four days following the bombings.

    Yet, Beck claimed at the time that there was a third perpetrator who was “the money man” behind the attack.

    Twenty-year-old Abdulrahman Alharbi-a college student in the Boston area-was attending the event near the marathon’s finish line when the bombs were detonated.

    FBI investigators later interrogated Alharbi and searched his home, but officials determined that he had nothing to do with the attack.

    However, Alharbi came under further persecution and this time the accusations were done publicly.

    Alharbi accuses Beck for intentionally causing harm to his reputation during a live segment on TheBlaze TV.

    On April 22, just seven days following the Boston Marathon bombings, Beck asserted that the whole attack was a cover-up and that Alharbi was involved.

    View the segment here:

    “The government has not come clean nor has really any of the mainstream media,” he said. “The government is out and out lying to you. They are engaging in a disinformation campaign to discredit and destroy.”

    According to the defamation lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court Friday, Beck “repeatedly and falsely identified Mr. Alharbi as an active participant in the crimes that were committed on April 15, 2013, repeatedly questioned the motives of federal officials in failing to pursue or detain Alharbi and repeatedly and falsely accused Mr. Alharbi of being a criminal who had funded the attacks at the Boston Marathon.”

    Alharbi also states that Beck identified him as a murderer, terrorist, and the brains behind the bombings.

    The lawsuit will seek unspecified damages and lawyer fees from Beck and his network.

    Beck’s reps have yet to respond to the lawsuit.

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  • Jesse Ventura Wants Lawsuit Against “American Sniper” to Proceed

    Attorneys for former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura have requested that a federal judge allow Ventura’s defamation case against the estate of Chris Kyle to proceed. In his memoir, American Sniper, Kyle, a former U.S. Navy Seal known as the most lethal sniper in history, recollected a 2006 confrontation with Ventura.

    Kyle, upset by negative comments Ventura had made about President George W. Bush and the Iraq War, punched the former professional wrestler in the face. In American Sniper, Kyle identifies Ventura only as “Scruff Face,” a celebrity ex-SEAL who opposed the war in Iraq and believed that 9/11 was a conspiracy. In subsequent statements, Kyle made it clear that “Scruff Face” was indeed Ventura.

    Ventura attorney David Bradley Olsen asserts that Ventura has the right to “protect and repair” his reputation, and that Kyle’s widow, Taya, will profit from the continued use of the story, including from a recently announced Steven Spielberg biopic of Kyle, in which Bradley Cooper is rumored to play the title role. Kyle’s estate has countered that the continuance of the case will “serve no useful purpose” and will cast Ventura as a man with little regard for the “surviving family members of deceased war heroes.”

    Kyle is officially credited with 160 confirmed kills, as well as another 95 claimed but unconfirmed kills, the most in American military history. On February 2, 2013, Kyle and a friend were killed at a shooting range in Erath County, Texas. Marine veteran Eddie Ray Routh is being held in suspicion of the killings.