Petitioners requested $1,000 a day fine for Cyber Ninjas withholding LAWFULLY requested documents was up by judge to $50,000 a day fine. Cyber Ninjas, fold. Judge says, okay wanna play that game. We’ll go after the individuals responsible for Cyber Ninjas. Looks like USA is fighting back.
Ali Velshi reports on the judge in the Cyber Ninjas public records request case losing patience with the contractor for not complying with an order to release documents requested by the Arizona Republic, and imposing a $50,000 per day fine until they do whether the company itself is dissolved or not.
The partisan “audit,” initiated following the 2020 presidential election by the Arizona Senate and conducted by lead contractor Cyber Ninjas, was heavily influenced by lies about a stolen election and helped inspire other absurd election “investigation” efforts.
The latest documents — released the day before Thanksgiving in response to American Oversight’s lawsuit for records related to the “audit” — were formerly held by Cyber Ninjas and include text messages sent and received by former CEO Doug Logan. The messages show Logan communicating with a wide cast of Trump-allied election deniers and provide more insight into how “audit” leaders’ helped sow distrust in U.S. democracy.
PHOENIX — The attorneys of Doug Logan, the founder and former CEO of Cyber Ninjas, are turning over 1,062 pages of records to the Arizona Senate, according to nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight.
Cyber Ninjas, the contractor that led the 2020 election review for Arizona republicans, was held in contempt by a judge for its failure to turn over documents in January and was ordered to pay $50,000 per day.
It continued to withhold records, and after several months, the contractor’s fine total hit $4.2 million by Friday’s report, according Jeremy Duda of Axios.
One of the enduring mysteries surrounding the chaotic attempts to overturn Donald Trump’s defeat in the 2020 presidential battle has been solved: who made a secret $1m donation to the controversial election “audit” in Arizona?
The identity of one of the largest benefactors behind the discredited review of Arizona’s vote count has been shrouded in secrecy. Now the Guardian can reveal that the person who partially bankrolled the failed attempt to prove that the election was stolen from Trump was … Trump.
An analysis by the watchdog group Documented has traced funding for the Arizona audit back to Trump’s Save America Pac …
Michael Popok of Legal AF reports on newly discovered evidence proving that despite his denials, Trump and his Save America PAC paid $1 million to pay for the Arizona Cyber Ninja audit and used several shell companies to launder the proceeds and hide his tracks.
