Steve Quest (p/k/a Montagraph) vs. Nicholas Robert Rekieta & Rekieta Law, LLC (2023)

[AnOminous]

If Monty's counselor refers to a mental health counselor, I will die laughing. He might've outed his counselor as having entered into ethically gray territory at best, unethical territory at worst. The issue of giving sessions to someone across state lines is complicated, to say the least.

Is there actually some kind of specialty for psycho the rapists for patients who fuck watermelons?

Did he tell this counselor (and any counselor-patient privilege would have been blown by doing so) that he fucks watermelons?

 

[56 others]

I liked Nick when this started. Now I hope Monty wins for laughs

 

[Confetti Meringue]

Is there actually some kind of specialty for psycho the rapists for patients who fuck watermelons?

Did he tell this counselor (and any counselor-patient privilege would have been blown by doing so) that he fucks watermelons?

Specialties: Delusional thinking and childhood trauma.

Did he tell his therapist: The guy speaks in rambling word salad, so yes, he probably said something about watermelons or kids at some point.

 

[Moths]

"I have never fucked a watermelon"

"Yer honor Id like to introduce into evidence defence exhibit 69. A video of the plaintiff having sexual relations with a Cucurbitaceae for the viewing pleasure of the jury"

 

[John Andrews Stan]

Montagraph's Affidavit is... something.

“I have never had sex with a melon.”
“Really?”
“Never! I made love to it.”

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

Montagraph's Affidavit is... something.
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Imagine having to enter this in a court document.
Also,
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I'm not even going to post the long spiel of the origins "The Umbrella Man" moniker.
There's some more goodies, I'm sure others can find more.

'Other lawyers' is a clear attempt to clout chase Sean the dwarf, The VA guy woodworker, and FuddBusters who hold nothing but disdain for Montegraph. Odds are that they will say something and he will try to loop them into the case. They are already part of his delusions...

I liked this line.
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More substantively, it appears that Rekieta's attempts to apply Colorado's anti-SLAPP laws may have hit a major snag. Montagraph says he secretly moved to Illinois in 2020. He says he maintains a Colorado address only to prevent people finding and harassing him in Illinois.
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I would be interested to now if any dedicated Montegraph watchers knew about this 'secret move'... Also interested in how the judge will look at this oversight... As I recall, one of the early affidavits said he was a resident of Colorado...

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

How much of the discrepancies in the time line of events is obfuscation versus Nick not remembering exactly what was going on and piecing it together in various states of sobriety?

 

[Kosher Salt]

Also interested in how the judge will look at this oversight... As I recall, one of the early affidavits said he was a resident of Colorado...

Indeed, you are correct. His complaint says that he "resides in the State of Colorado." Now he says that he does not, and was not a Colorado resident at the time the complaint was filed.

These are sworn pleadings and they directly contradict. One of them is a lie.

 

[Also Not a Fake Name]

Indeed, you are correct. His complaint says that he "resides in the State of Colorado." Now he says that he does not, and was not a Colorado resident at the time the complaint was filed.

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These are sworn pleadings and they directly contradict. One of them is a lie.

What’s a lolsuit without a little perjury ?

Isn’t letting your client perjure themselves and use that to try and apply a different states law an ethics violation?


That’s a lot of words to say, yeah my client lied, but it’s the defendant’s fault for taking our affidavit literally.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

I would be interested to now if any dedicated Montegraph watchers knew about this 'secret move’

Not a dedicated Monty watcher but when shit started going down between him and Metokur, I was briefly hooked on this storyline. Every day Monty was posting more deranged shit and escalating things. I did see at least a clip of the movie, IIRC, and like all of Monty’s “art,” it made me think he was a degenerate and likely a child rapist. I can’t emphasize enough how creepy this guy is.

 

[Owlbear]

What’s a lolsuit without a little perjury ?

A little white perjury never hurt anybody. I'm so excited for this to backfire on Monty.

Also "I have never had sex with a melon" is going in the next sworn statement I have to make.

 

[Kosher Salt]

What’s a lolsuit without a little perjury ?

Isn’t letting your client perjure themselves and use that to try and apply a different states law an ethics violation?

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That’s a lot of words to say, yeah my client lied, but it’s the defendant’s fault for taking our affidavit literally.

I especially like the way he doubles down. Repeats the claim that Quest was a Colorado resident "at least at the beginning of this lawsuit," but then goes on to claim that Quest has lived in Illinois for the past 32 months. This lawsuit has not been going on for anywhere remotely close to 32 months, so these statements still contradict. Quest may have been contemplating filing it when he lived in Colorado, but if he moved in June of 2020 he most certainly did not still live there when he filed.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

I know it can be difficult for a lawyer to quit in the middle of a case but is there any possibility that Monty's lawyer took the case on contingency only insofar as trying to force/negotiate a pre-trial settlement because it would likely be cheaper for Nick to settle than to fight the case even if he's likely to prevail at trial? And even if Nick were to be Nick and refuse to settle he'd probably still be out without too much investment because it's likely to be dismissed, and that if the judge were to refuse to dismiss for whatever reason he'd be able to abandon ship?

I think that would be my favorite timeline, with Monty being forced to produce his entire filmography (including the missing stuff, because I think that's pretty obviously relevant) and then having to sit through 8 hours of Nick texting Randazza/local council questions that came in via superchat without a lawyer to help him. Nick being deposed by Monty for a similarly excruciating amount of time would probably be a riot as well, though tempered by Nick having council. The only way it could be better would be if he could manage to stream Monty's deposition live, though I doubt the judge would let that happen even if the rules don't prohibit it. Just watching the recording would still be gold I imagine

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

Not a dedicated Monty watcher but when shit started going down between him and Metokur, I was briefly hooked on this storyline. Every day Monty was posting more deranged shit and escalating things. I did see at least a clip of the movie, IIRC, and like all of Monty’s “art,” it made me think he was a degenerate and likely a child rapist. I can’t emphasize enough how creepy this guy is.

'Move' not 'movie'.

I know it can be difficult for a lawyer to quit in the middle of a case but is there any possibility that Monty's lawyer took the case on contingency only insofar as trying to force/negotiate a pre-trial settlement because it would likely be cheaper for Nick to settle than to fight the case even if he's likely to prevail at trial? And even if Nick were to be Nick and refuse to settle he'd probably still be out without too much investment because it's likely to be dismissed, and that if the judge were to refuse to dismiss for whatever reason he'd be able to abandon ship?

I think that would be my favorite timeline, with Monty being forced to produce his entire filmography (including the missing stuff, because I think that's pretty obviously relevant) and then having to sit through 8 hours of Nick texting Randazza/local council questions that came in via superchat without a lawyer to help him. Nick being deposed by Monty for a similarly excruciating amount of time would probably be a riot as well, though tempered by Nick having council. The only way it could be better would be if he could manage to stream Monty's deposition live, though I doubt the judge would let that happen even if the rules don't prohibit it. Just watching the recording would still be gold I imagine

This would be the best timeliness.

I'm answer to your question, it is more than possible. Unless he thinks that this is an egregiously bad defamation, he knows they are hard to win. Any lawyer would take a settlement over the work of a trial.

Speculation, but I am waiting to see how long Schneider sticks it out.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

'Move' not 'movie'.

Sorry, thought it was a typo.

 

[Kosher Salt]

Oh boy. Affidavit of Steve Quest, paragraph 8, referring to Nick: "He gave free legal advice." Nick might have to clarify that he's never given Steve any legal advice, not his attorney, etc.

Also the retard then goes on to specifically claim that he believes Nick defamed him with "malice" under the non-legal definition of the word.

Also, god damn, he sure is mad about being called a "moron" or a "retard."

I like how he basically admits that his creation of the "Umbrella Man" film created an ongoing public controversy, "in which at least 30 people attempted to falsely frame me for running a pedophile ring," which is the origination of the controversy that Nick was commenting on.

 

[BoomerPrime]

I'm not fully up on my Monty lore, but I do remember the couple of vids/streams Jim did...am I misremembering or wasn't there an actual video of him fucking the watermelon??

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

If I'm not mistaken it was a cantaloupe or similar style of melon, not a watermelon, and he was fingering it and maybe making out with it, not actually fucking it. There are edited versions of it designed to make it look and/or sound like he's fucking it but I don't know that the original is available, I've only seen the screenshots and edited versions. I guess it could be a watermelon with the outermost layer of rind peeled off but it looks like a honeydew to me I think

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

Damn. I could have sworn there was footage of him actually copulating with a fruit.

 

[Balldo's Gate]

Indeed, you are correct. His complaint says that he "resides in the State of Colorado." Now he says that he does not, and was not a Colorado resident at the time the complaint was filed.

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These are sworn pleadings and they directly contradict. One of them is a lie.

You are missing another quote from the complaint. From Page 2 of the complaint, paragraph V: "Defendants have engaged in false statements concerning Plaintiff, and published them, of which Plaintiff and others have become aware; Plaintiff has resided in a number of States of the Union including Colorado and Illinois."

It is unclear to me without digging through Montagraph's recent affidavit in more detail whether they actually "directly contradict". You can be a resident of multiple states (NB: "Residence" ≠ "Domicile", although they are often interchangeably used), and the complaint specifically mentions the two states Monty is currently stating he's residing in.

I know it can be difficult for a lawyer to quit in the middle of a case but is there any possibility that Monty's lawyer took the case on contingency only insofar as trying to force/negotiate a pre-trial settlement because it would likely be cheaper for Nick to settle than to fight the case even if he's likely to prevail at trial? And even if Nick were to be Nick and refuse to settle he'd probably still be out without too much investment because it's likely to be dismissed, and that if the judge were to refuse to dismiss for whatever reason he'd be able to abandon ship?

Nick has been pushing hard the line that Schneider only took the case in the hope of a quick settlement. That's obviously possible, but there's no evidence of that.

In this thread, some people were speculating that Nick must have had a poor reputation in the legal community in Kandiyohi County and that Schneider was chomping at the bit to go at him. I thought this was a bit much, there was no evidence of that either, and didn't really say anything in favor of it.

But then we found out that Schneider filed an ethics complaint against Nick, and now there's something that jumped out at me from Schneider's affidavit that has changed my view quite a bit.

Schneider says he had his wife watch the Nick make a fool of himself on the Internet:

I wonder how often this guy sends material from his cases to his wife to look over. It doesn't seem like something you'd do unless you thought it was funny and absurd how a local lawyer you've interacted with before is now a full time streamer, and more than that, a streamer whose bit is being the drunk lawyer man.

I would be interested to now if any dedicated Montegraph watchers knew about this 'secret move'... Also interested in how the judge will look at this oversight... As I recall, one of the early affidavits said he was a resident of Colorado...

If you look at Monty's affidavit, I note in the YT screencaps he's attached at the end where it's some guy following him around CO and filming him, there's a video from May 12, 2020 where the description says that Monty is throwing some of his belongings out into a dumpster and is preparing to move somewhere. Monty says he moved from Colorado to Illinois on June 2, 2020. So it's possible that the "secret move" was known about, even if his destination was not.