Remember that Minnesota Lawyer article that took place in late September and early October? Well, Nick actually covered it on the last livestream and, as you can imagine, it's flawed, although it’s nowhere near as bad as most blog articles covering this. The writer's name is Kevin Featherly. Here are highlights:
- He spelled Nick Rekieta's last name right on the photo caption, but then spells it wrong throughout the article.
- Featherly writes that Vic is using the GFM money to help sue "two women who took to social media to accuse him of inappropriate behavior", as well as Ron Toye and Funimation and separates them in two paragraphs, since you need to fit your your narrative
- Mignogna sued the defendants for 20 counts, rather than the actual 17.
- The judge dropped 15 charges on September 6th, as opposed to the actual 12. He at least got the other 5 claims dismissed right.
- Allison Cooke's infamous tweet was apparently "anonymous".
- Monica Rial "reposted" that tweet, which Nick says inadvertently proved that this set the stage for the firestorm.
- “A group of attorneys critiquing the case through the #Lawtwitter hashtag also got sucked into the controversy".
- The relationship between Rikieta and Vic is "hard to gauge", even though rational human beings know it's not, and then says Vic didn't know "Rikieta" before the GFM campaign was launched.
- He got everything about the grandfather’s trust topic mostly correct, except saying that “Rikieta” is one of the beneficiaries.
- “Rikieta”’s legal analysis is described between “quiet, almost cerebral” and “rough house attacks on the defense”.
- My favorite part of this article: “Doxxing means digging up and publishing home addresses, phone numbers and even cars owned by people so that others can target them for intimidation and harassment, often in person”.
- “Rikieta” refused to return any of the telephone calls to the writer...while he was in Hawaii.
- S. Jean Phlegmoine is referred to as “Escalation Sean Lemoine”. I’m not kidding.
- Featherly says that Phlegmoine filed an anti-SLAPP motion seeking to depose Nick, which isn’t true.
- Nick sadly reminds everyone that Vic is never going to be rehired by Funimation and Rooster Teeth now that a settlement opportunity has been thrown out of the window.
- After discussing Chupp and the mediation situation, Nick does an awesome rant shitting on Funimation and the defendants for what they did to Vic, all because of a stupid tweet by Hanleia.
- Speaking of Nick, he mocks Featherly’s sentence about Lawtwitter criticizing Nick’s behavior over “conflict of interest”
To be fair, Nick did say it was relatively fair and Featherly did get a few things right and correct. Still, it’s sad that the best we can get from a mainstream news outlet regarding this lawsuit.
It starts at around 1:16:00 if anyone’s curious.