{"id":10548,"date":"2013-09-15T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10548"},"modified":"2013-09-15T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:00:36","slug":"attorneys-for-the-estate-of-andrew-breitbart-threatened-with-contempt-of-court-in-the-shirley-sherrod-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10548","title":{"rendered":"Attorneys For The Estate Of Andrew Breitbart Threatened With Contempt Of Court In The Shirley Sherrod Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AndrewEven in death Andrew Breitbart manages to be a major league dickwad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week attorneys representing his estate, in a case where he was being sued for libel by former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod, failed to answer the court’s questions regarding the estate’s finances. When the lawyers couldn’t even tell the judge whether or not Breitbart had a will when he died, the judge became skeptical and threatened<\/a> to charge them with contempt of court.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon said he was mystified that Breitbart’s attorneys from Katten Muchin did not know whether or not Breitbart died intestate and said he feared that the firm and Breitbart’s estate \u2014 or whatever entity may be in ownership of the late blogger’s assets \u2014 were being evasive and uncooperative in the case.<\/p>\n

“This court expects a law firm of the stature of Katten Muchin to not be a party to games like this, at least as the court sees it,” Judge Leon said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Back in 2010, Breitbart posted a video<\/a> of Sherrod on his web site that falsely portrayed her as engaging in racially biased behavior in her duties as a government employee. The unedited video shows that, in fact, she was telling a story about something that had occurred twenty years earlier, before she worked for the government, and actually had a message of equality and tolerance. Nevertheless, Breitbart refused to apologize or retract his defamatory articles.<\/p>\n

Sherrod sued Breitbart, who evaded accountability by dying. And now his lawyers are continuing his legacy of shameful deceit by dodging the court’s legitimate inquiries into his finances. The boneheads that assumed control of Breitbart’s web sites have cemented their reputation for bombastic dishonesty and tabloid-like perversions of journalism to an extent that might even have embarrassed Breitbart. But they cannot continue to avoid the legal scrutiny in this case, and will eventually have to pay for their disgraceful smear campaign against Sherrod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even in death Andrew Breitbart manages to be a major league dickwad. Last week attorneys representing his estate, in a case where he was being sued for libel by former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod, failed to answer the court’s questions regarding the estate’s finances. 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