LEST WE FORGET TO ASK: WHO PAID THE $1,031,788.33 BOND?

One month ago today, on February 7, 2024, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks's February 6, 2024 Order was filed, approving the payment of a  $1,031,788.33 bond into the Registry of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.  [Redacted, Unreconstructed] Plaintiff v. Hillary Clinton, Marc Elias, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, James Comey, and the United States of America, et al., Order Granting Unopposed Motion for Stay of Final Order and to Approve Bond To be Paid to Registry of Court, DE 309, filed Feb. 7, 2024 (S.D. Fla. No. 2:22-14102).

Click to Download Redacted Unreconstructed P v. [Lots of Ds Order Granting Unopposed M.Stay and Approve Bond to be Paid to Registry of Ct. DE 309 filed Feb. 6 2023 (S.D. Fla. Case No. 2.2022-14102).

         The payment of $1,031,788.33 into the Court Registry took the place of the appellants having to file a supersedeas bond to protect payment.  The Redacted, Unreconstructed Plaintiff and his lead lawyer in the case, Alina Habba and her law firm, Habba Madaio & Associates – lawyers who would also be his lawyers in other cases including the recently concluded and well-known litigation which Judge Kaplan presided over  --  appealed their joint and several liability to pay sanctions of $937,989.39 for filing this frivolous litigation in which they sued many, many defendants.  [Redacted, Unreconstructed] Plaintiff v. Hillary Clinton, Marc Elias, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, James Comey, and the United States of America, et al., Order Granting Joint Motion for Sanctions, DE 302, filed Jan. 19, 2023 (S.D. Fla. No. 2:22-14102).  

         PACER, the electronic docket allowing Public Access to (Federal) Court Electronic Records, does not show when the bond amount was filed or who filed it.  There is a lot of speculation in the press and on cable television, podcasts, and radio asking how the same Redacted, Unreconstructed party will be able to fund his appeals, several of which he has already filed.  Those are good questions.  You would think the payment of another Million Dollars (actually, more) would be added to the pot.  The payment of another Million Dollars+ to appeal hasn't even been discussed so far as I can find, let alone the fact that this appeal involves sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit.

          Yet the Sanctions Order filed January 19, 2023 seems to be forgotten already, and the Order Approving over $1Million to be Paid Into the Court Registry entered a month ago does not even enter the equation, yet it presents an identical question:  How did the Redacted, Unreconstructed party pay it, in other words, where did he get the money?  These are good questions as well.

         I am going to mention the names of people and outlets who have the capacity to answer these questions if they want to.  If I left a tweet on X-which-used-to-be-Twitter, I guess they might find a tweet but so would the trolls most likely and I do not want that.  I do not know whether these people will pay attention to blogs like this one, but I am going to try.  Maybe they will seek out their names since they are in a business where their name recognition is so important to them.

        I am not completely sure of how to bring this article to their attention, so I am going to mention their names here in the body of this article as well as in the metadata accompanying it.  Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Susanne Craig, David Barstow, Russ Buettner, Rachel Maddow, Andrew Weissmann, Will Bunch, Scott Maxwell, Jackie Calmes, LZ Granderson, Karen Tumulty, Julie K. Brown, David Dayen, New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, Guardian, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jamie Raskin, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Talking Points Memo, ProPublica, Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, and American Prospect.

          Thank you in advance, one and all.

Please read the disclaimer.  ©2024 Dennis J. Wall.  All rights reserved.

         The payment of $1,031,788.33 into the Court Registry took the place of the appellants having to file a supersedeas bond to protect payment.  The Redacted, Unreconstructed Plaintiff and his lead lawyer in the case, Alina Habba and her law firm, Habba Madaio & Associates – lawyers who would also be his lawyers in other cases including the recently concluded and well-known litigation which Judge Kaplan presided over  --  appealed their joint and several liability to pay sanctions of $937,989.39 for filing this frivolous litigation in which they sued many, many defendants.  [Redacted, Unreconstructed] Plaintiff v. Hillary Clinton, Marc Elias, Glenn Simpson, Christopher Steele, James Comey, and the United States of America, et al., Order Granting Joint Motion for Sanctions, DE 302, filed Jan. 19, 2023 (S.D. Fla. No. 2:22-14102).  

         PACER, the electronic docket allowing Public Access to (Federal) Court Electronic Records, does not show when the bond amount was filed or who filed it.  There is a lot of speculation in the press and on cable television, podcasts, and radio asking how the same Redacted, Unreconstructed party will be able to fund his appeals, several of which he has already filed.  Those are good questions.  You would think the payment of another Million Dollars (actually, more) would be added to the pot.  The payment of another Million Dollars+ to appeal hasn't even been discussed so far as I can find, let alone the fact that this appeal involves sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit.

          Yet the Sanctions Order filed January 19, 2023 seems to be forgotten already, and the Order Approving over $1Million to be Paid Into the Court Registry entered a month ago does not even enter the equation, yet it presents an identical question:  How did the Redacted, Unreconstructed party pay it, in other words, where did he get the money?  These are good questions as well.

         I am going to mention the names of people and outlets who have the capacity to answer these questions if they want to.  If I left a tweet on X-which-used-to-be-Twitter, I guess they might find a tweet but so would the trolls most likely and I do not want that.  I do not know whether these people will pay attention to blogs like this one, but I am going to try.  Maybe they will seek out their names since they are in a business where their name recognition is so important to them.

        I am not completely sure of how to bring this article to their attention, so I am going to mention their names here in the body of this article as well as in the metadata accompanying it.  Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Susanne Craig, David Barstow, Russ Buettner, Rachel Maddow, Andrew Weissmann, Will Bunch, Scott Maxwell, Jackie Calmes, LZ Granderson, Karen Tumulty, Julie K. Brown, David Dayen, New York Times, Washington Post, American Prospect, Guardian, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jamie Raskin, Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Talking Points Memo, ProPublica, Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, and American Prospect.

          Thank you in advance, one and all.

Please read the disclaimer.  ©2024 Dennis J. Wall.  All rights reserved.