A lawsuit in Georgia is seeking the return of one of the biggest donations to the legal defense fund for Rudy Giuliani, who had been a top lawyer for former President Donald Trump.
The donation by Matthew Martorano in September accounted for nearly 13% of all the money that Giuliani, the former attorney for Giuliani spokesman Ted Goodman, in an email to CNBC, said,"This is a lawsuit unrelated to us." He had no immediate additional comment. "The scammers' only goal is to fraudulently obtain the victim's credit card or bank account information," the suit says."And once they have it, they begin billing their victims for subscriptions they never signed up for, never agreed to, and about which they were never properly informed."
Kneupper, who was appointed the class counsel in the class-action suit, told CNBC that the question of whether the Konnektive defendants will be held civilly liable for fraud"is ultimately going to go to a jury" to decide.The new suit that Kneupper filed in Fulton County Superior Court in Georgia, names as defendants the Martoranos, Konnektive LLC, and two other corporate entities. Giuliani is not named as a defendant.
And in November, Martorano and his wife also transferred a house and two properties in Georgia spanning 135 acres to a limited liability corporation, each time for a $0 purchase price, according to assessor offices' records, the suit notes. The combined assessed and estimated value of the three properties was $4.1 million.Brazil Supreme Court justice opens inquiry into Elon Musk