A well known nemesis of Alex Jones was presently suing X operator Elon Musk on behalf of a 22-year-old Jewish male for spreading, on his personal system, a false rumor that the personal citizen with no genuine connection to a neo-Nazi “street brawl” was an undercover federal agent collaborating in a “probable bogus flag problem.” Now, Texas legal professional Mark Bankston is pursuing sanctions versus Musk’s substantial-profile attorney following an “astonishingly unprofessional” deposition in Benjamin Brody’s lawsuit, for the duration of which Alex Spiro termed the scenario “stupid.”
Bankston filed a movement for sanctions from Spiro on Monday in Travis County, professing that the “Madison Avenue celeb lawyer” represented Musk at a March 27 deposition without the need of any see, with no a license to exercise law in Texas, and without having courtroom permission to take part in the scenario pro hac vice.
In performing so, the Musk legal professional “brazenly engaged in unauthorized practice of regulation by signing and getting ready Musk’s pleadings, demonstrating up unannounced to protect Musk’s deposition with no authority to follow law in Texas, and drafting and serving subsequent legal requires to Plaintiff,” the sanctions motion argued, in advance of accusing Spiro of engaging in “astonishingly unprofessional” behavior all through the deposition.
Declaring Spiro “seriously overstepped his bounds,” the motion criticized the Musk attorney for continuous interruptions and mocking “commentary” for the duration of the deposition.
The prolonged deposition transcript exhibits that the March 27 sit-down was rocky out of the gate, with Bankston telling Spiro, “You’re violating Rule 199, you’re not even professional hac admitted.”
“Okay. Ok. you’re just supplying speeches that nobody’s listening to but you. You’re just executing them for your self,” Spiro shot back again.
“Oh, they are for the report. Mr. Spiro, they’re for the Court to hear to,” Bankston replied, ahead of inquiring Spiro not to interrupt him and threatening to transfer for sanctions. Spiro claimed he didn’t care about the rule that Bankston saved reading.
An even testier trade ensued when Spiro said “This isn’t like a genuine case. This is just some stupid—,” the transcript reveals. Voices were raised and tensions obviously heightened.
The sanctions movement reported that Spiro’s “outrageous conduct ongoing to increase extra unprofessional as he grew angrier.” Bankston surmised that was “almost certainly” simply because Musk had offered “extraordinarily damning testimony” on a number of factors, like that the Musk write-up on X at challenge referred to Brody without naming him:
Bankston is remembered as the attorney for Sandy Hook households who experienced a “Perry Mason moment” of kinds when informing Infowars host Alex Jones for the duration of his testimony at his Texas defamation trial that Jones’ attorneys “messed up and sent me an entire electronic copy of your entire mobile telephone with every text concept you have sent for the earlier two decades.”
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“Mr. Jones, in the course of discovery, you ended up asked, ‘Do you have Sandy Hook text messages on your cellular phone?’ And you said, ‘No,’ accurate?” Bankston questioned Jones in August 2022, wondering if the Infowars host understood what perjury is.
Jones acknowledged that he answered “no” beneath oath, but he insisted he “did not lie” when he mentioned so.
Continue to, Bankston memorialized the moment in his bio on X: “Caught Alex Jones lying on the stand.” Jones infamously (and at great price tag to himself) known as the Sandy Hook college massacre of little ones a “false flag,” and now Bankston is suing the operator of X for giving credence to false rumors that Brody was “engaged in ‘a possible false flag problem.””
Legislation&Criminal offense arrived at out to Spiro for comment.
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