Peter Thiel’s Lawyer Threatens Deadspin Over Feature on “Betting Expert” RJ Bell
“According to email correspondence between Harder and Bell—portions of which the latter forwarded to Goldberg—Harder took just five minutes to decide to he was interested in Bell’s case, and only a few days after that, over a weekend, to get comfortable enough with the matter to put together a 13-page retraction demand in which he asks that Deadspin ‘immediately publish a full, fair and conspicuous retraction, correction and apology as to each false and defamatory statement’ or else risk ‘immediate litigation.'”
RJ Bell, the “Vegas oddsmaker” in charge of the sports betting website Pregame.com, and subject of a lengthy investigation by Ryan Goldberg on Gawker’s sister website Deadspin, has enlisted Charles J. Harder—the same lawyer who has threatened Gawker over Ashley Feinberg’s reporting on Donald Trump’s…
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