Freedom of Speech - The DAP News Legal Defense Fund

(ContentDesk) December 2, 2005 -- DOUGLAS Art Prints? News is the subject of a SLAPP lawsuit filed in Federal Court by International Galleries, Inc. for reports on this blog about the company being a pyramid scheme.
(A SLAPP Suit is a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. A lawsuit in which a corporation or developer sues an organization in an attempt to scare it into dropping protests against a corporate initiative.) Actually the corporation DOUGLAS Photography, Inc. and Douglas Konkol personally are being sued.

(U.S. District Court. Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division Case No. 05 CV 2299)
It is not just Konkols opinion but the opinion of many, including one or more top flight attorney's with expertise on pyramid schemes and
other pyramid scheme experts that International Galleries, Inc. is a pyramid scheme.

You can find that on DOUGLAS Art Prints? News that I have found not only documents and expert opinion supporting this but I have also found that on May 5, 2003 one Stanley Leitner formed the IGI corporation and was the sole director of the corporation. On April 14, 2004 Mr. Leitner also formed and was sole director of the Megafund Corporation.
Mr. Leitner was the Director of Megafund and International Galleries, Inc.

until July 11, 2005 when he was replaced as director.
Seven days prior, on July 1, 2005, Stanley Leitner and Megafund were formally charged by the SEC for operating a $13.8 million dollar investment fraud.
There are State of Texas documents that prove more than one of the Megafund Officers were also and are still officers of International Galleries, Inc.
In fact Megafund Officer Robert Fridd was named Co-Director of International Galleries, Inc. to replace Stanley Leitner.

In fact SEC documents should prove that Stanley Leitner ran Megafund from the offices of International Galleries, Inc. Konkol said.I am being sued for opinion I offered in my reports exposing International Galleries, Inc. being a pyramid scheme and the ties between them and Megafund.
Not only is International Galleries suing me but they are also suing a hispanic newspaper in Chicago, La Raza, for the same report, Konkol continued. I was fully prepared to go represent myself.
I have no insurance to cover this and more important I believe I could easily prove to a jury that I had every reason to believe what I said is true and documents and sources included in my reports would further prove that.

Because International Galleries is not just suing me personally but me and the corporation they have found a way to prevent me from defending this suit myself, pro se.
There is precedent that a corporation must be represented by an attorney.
I am being forced into a very expensive legal defense in federal court.DOUGLAS Art Prints? News can not afford these legal expenses.
International Galleries, Inc. could win by forcing Konkol and the corporation into bankruptcy simply trying to defend the right to free speech in this SLAPP suit.

Konkol continued,
I have no horse in this race.
I saw what I and others believed to be a pyramid scheme that was defrauding hundreds or maybe thousands of people possibly causing bankruptcies, divorces or even suicides.
I reported on that company on my blog. Me personally and my corporation could be forced into bankruptcy and lose because I exposed a pyramid scheme that was being run by a man, by the same people who were at the same time operating a $13.8 million fraud.
I need help.
I am proud of what I did and now I need help to prevent International Galleries, Inc.

from winning my silence.
I am proud of what I did and now I need help to prevent International Galleries, Inc. from forcing me and the corporation into bankruptcy and winning because I could not afford the expense of the defense of this SLAPP lawsuit. DOUGLAS Art Prints? News has set up a defense fund hoping to get donations to pay legal expenses and prevent International Galleries, Inc. from winning this SLAPP suit and silencing free speech by financial default.
If you want to help please make checks payable to "DAP News Defense Fund".

Mail to:???DAP News Defense Fund????
???c/o Key Bank???29900 Detroit Rd.???Westlake, OH 44145Douglas Konkol and/or his attorney Ken Myers are available for public statements.
Call 800-888-5790..


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