"Profile Defender" scammer who files fake lawsuits is pleading guilty and making restitution

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Paul Alan Levy <plevy () citizen org>
> Date: March 14, 2017 at 4:48:55 PM EDT
> To: "dave () farber net" <dave () farber net>
> Subject: "Profile Defender" scammer who files fake lawsuits is pleading guilty and making restitution
>
> “Internet entrepreneur” Richart Ruddie, who has filed more than two dozen fake lawsuits around the country with the 
> purpose of getting web pages critical of his clients taken out of Google’s search engine database, is in the process 
> of completing his plea bargaining.  Part of the process is for him to make restitution, including compensatory 
> damages to the Get Out of Debt blogger whose litigation brought his crimes to light, as well as taking actions to get 
> various court orders he obtained lifted.  
>
> In this article, I explain how all this came to light, but also  address the fact that the companies on whose behalf 
> he worked this scam remain unpunished
>  
> http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2017/03/richart-ruddie-settles-anti-slapp-claims-makes-restitution-but-the-guilty-companies-remain-unpunishe.html
>  
>  
> Paul Alan Levy
> Public Citizen Litigation Group
> 1600 20th Street, NW
> Washington, D.C. 20009
> (202) 588-7725
> http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=396
> Twitter:  @paulalanlevy
> Public Citizen Foundation participates in the Combined Federal Campaign with the CFC Code 11168
>  



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