Monday, June 20, 2016

The Art of the Smear — The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online.


Below is a link to the March 16, 2016 article written by Dune Lawrence (a journalist at Bloomberg.com) who was the subject of a two-year online smear campaign by Benjamin Wey.

Ms. Dune wrote, "In addition to all the lies [posted by Wey online], the story was laced with creepy sexual imagery: I’d had my “panties ripped off” and was like “a dog wagging her tail trying to attract a mating partner.” 

Similarly, Couri falsely accuses me of all manner of sexual deviance. 

Dune wrote, "In September 2015 the FBI arrested the man behind TheBlot [website], one Benjamin Wey. Not for smearing me or the other people he imagined were his enemies. He’s primarily a financier, and he was charged with securities fraud and other financial crimes involving Chinese companies he helped to list on U.S. stock markets. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges Wey pocketed tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits that he funneled through associates overseas and back into accounts in the U.S. Wey denies the charges. A trial has been set for March 2017."

Similarly, Couri smears people he imagined were his enemies; but unlike Wey, Couri has already been convicted of securities fraud and bank fraud (both in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York).

Finally, Dune wrote, "Meanwhile, TheBlot’s lies about me still pop up online. The same is true for a young woman who won an $18 million judgment against Wey and his companies for sexual harassment and defamation, ... a retired Nasdaq official, and a Georgetown University law professor. As Wey, 44, awaits trial, he regularly posts Blot articles calling all of us, and others, frauds, racists, and extortionists. He’s found a way to exact revenge with few consequences, and he’s milking it."

Similarly, Couri has a $15 million judgment against him for defrauding Dr. John Siebert. And Couri accuses me and his imagined enemies of fraud, extortion, and the like.

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-benjamin-wey/

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