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<p><font face="Times New Roman" style=""></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" style="">liar</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">major bank leak will lead to investigations and reform JA predicts, but never happnened; it may be tha the information was not that explosive (or taken by a defector Mach Kills Secrets bk); but not unlike Roger Stone, Assange thought th suggestions/threat was useful.  But Bofa starts buying up domain names; started preemptively buying up websites; DOJ rec H&W,<b> richard wyatt</b> in partic (deals w/ sensitive matters, made his bones on) 179 mach kills</font></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman"></font></b></p><p style="margin: 15px 0px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-size: small; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Just how well connected is Hunton? According to one of the hacked <a href="http://hbgary.anonleaks.ru/aaron_hbgary_com/2374.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); outline: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">e-mails</a> from December, Hunton was recommended to Bank of America’s general counsel by none other than the U.S. Department of Justice. I have an inquiry in with the DOJ about this and will update if I hear back. As an employee of Palantir, one of the three tech firms involved in hatching the anti-WikiLeaks plan, put it:</font></p><blockquote style="font-size: small; line-height: 24px; box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; quotes: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><p style="margin: 15px 0px; box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; line-height: 1.5rem; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">DOJ called the GC of BofA and told them to hire Hunton and Williams, specifically to hire<b> Richard Wyatt</b> who I’m beginning to think is the emperor. They want to present to the bank a<b> team capable of doing a comprehensive investigation into the data leak.</b></font></p></blockquote><p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></b></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">bs</font></b></p><p class="tagline" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 19px; padding-top: 6px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard’s practice focuses on business litigation, regulatory compliance and legislative initiatives.</font></p><div class="" style="line-height: 18px;"><div class="professional_relations_consumer ajax_relations_consumer"><div id="ctl00_xprLayout_cphMainContentBottom_MainBottom_xpr_layout_raisin_Professional_089762c08_5d29_90a6_e4d8_4d029c5e10b_Professional_ctl00_xprLNC_pCNppCNp_MainBottom_xpr_layout_raisin_Professional_089762c08_5d29_90a6_e4d8_4d029c5e10b_pCNp_ProfessionalInfo_xpr_layout_raisin_RelatedInfo_professionalsRelInfo_xprLNC_pCNppCNp_MainBottom_xpr_layout_raisin_Professional_089762c08_5d29_90a6_e4d8_4d029c5e10b_pCNppCNp_xprLNC_pCNppCNp_MainBottom_xpr_layout_raisin_Professional_089762c08_5d29_90a6_e4d8_4d029c5e10b_pCNp_ProfessionalInfo_xpr_layout_raisin_RelatedInfo_pCNp_rcRelatedInfo_xpr_layout_raisin_relOverview_ri_overview_div" class="relinfo active op" style="padding-top: 0px;"><div class="servicedbio"><div class="content" style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 25px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As co-head of the firm’s litigation department, Richard’s practice focuses on business litigation, regulatory compliance and legislative initiatives.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 18px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">His experience as strategic and lead counsel to both plaintiffs and defendants includes</span><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> antitrust, securities and state tax issues;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> RICO,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> labor and employment concerns; and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">First Amendment disputes and investigations.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Over his 35-year legal career, Richard has argued numerous appellate cases and is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court; the US Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; and the US District Court for the Northern District of New York.</span></b></font></p><p class="BioSubHeading" style="margin: 25px 0px 18px; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Relevant Experience</font></p><span class="mainbioexperience"><ul style="list-style-image: url(https://www.hunton.com/FCWSite/img/Hunton/bullet_ff.gif); margin: 0px 0px 15px 12px; padding: 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><li style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Serves as national employment law <b>class action </b>counsel for a major US company for which he and his partners also routinely defend employment law and <b>wage-hour </b>class actions. </font></font></font></font></li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Represents a client in its defense of 25<b> class actions</b> arising from an <b>invasion of its computer network. </b></span></li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Represents a client in defense of <b>multiple shareholder actions challenging the recent acquisition of a major fast food chain.</b></li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Represented Spartanburg Regional Healthcare systems in its antitrust class action alleging monopoly maintenance and attempted monopolization against Hillenbrand Industries, a manufacturer of hospital beds. Prior to trial, the case settled for $337.5 million in cash and injunctive relief valued at an additional $152 million. </li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Served as lead counsel in a series of shareholder fraud class actions challenging a share exchange between a company and its major shareholder. </li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Served as outside counsel to major airline companies on a variety of litigation matters ranging from <b>contested mergers to asset disposition and collective bargaining disputes. </b></li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Served as coordinating and lead counsel for a major retail chain in defending a series of lawsuits and parallel regulatory complaints, including purported ERISA, wage-hour and Title VII class-actions and related securities fraud litigation, while prosecuting suits for abuse of process, RICO/antitrust and state<b> tort </b>law violations against a variety of defendants, including<b> ABC's <em>PrimeTime Live</em>. </b></li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Served as lead counsel before the US Supreme Court in a landmark Railway Labor Act case, <em>Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad v. Railway Labor Executives Association</em>.</li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Served as lead counsel for an </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">oil refiner in a case alleging a conspiracy to sabotage the internal operations of its refinery</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and breach of contract, while serving as coordinating counsel for related class actions involving shareholder derivative</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Clean Air Act </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and employment claims. </span></li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Represented a major pharmaceutical manufacturer in its defense of a purported nationwide class action alleging race discrimination in pay and promotions. </li><li style="padding-bottom: 8px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Represented a national construction company in</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> “disaster mitigation” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">as a result of a 4th Circuit decision holding that the company improperly implemented its 1995 last offer.</span></li></ul></span></div></div></div></div></div><p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></b></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://littlesis.org/person/75583/Richard_L_Wyatt_Jr">http://littlesis.org/person/75583/Richard_L_Wyatt_Jr</a></font></b></p><div class="relationship-section" style="box-sizing: content-box; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 136); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 1.2em; background: transparent;">John McCain</a></strong>   <span class="related_entity_blurb" style="box-sizing: content-box;">US Senator and Representative from Arizona</span></font></div><div class="related_entity_relationship" style="box-sizing: content-box; padding-top: 0.2em; padding-left: 0.5em;"><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: content-box;"><a class="relationship" title="view details" href="http://littlesis.org/relationship/view/id/317274" style="box-sizing: content-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 170); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; margin-top: 0.2em; background: transparent;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1 contribution ⋅ $2300 ('07)</font></a></span></li></div></div><div class="related_entity" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: content-box; line-height: 1.3em; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); 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</font></li><li style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">----</font></li><li style="box-sizing: content-box; margin-left: 10px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="line-height: 15.7143px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224);">from an email by<b> Palantir's </b></span><a href="http://littlesis.org/person/75584/Matthew_Steckman" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 15.7143px; background: rgb(255, 255, 224);">Matthew Steckman</a><span style="line-height: 15.7143px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224);"> about their recent pitch to </span><a href="http://littlesis.org/org/9/Bank_of_America_Corporation" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 15.7143px; background: rgb(255, 255, 224);">Bank of America</a><span style="line-height: 15.7143px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224);">: "They are pitching the bank to retain them for an internal investigation around wikileaks. They basically want to sue them to put an injunction on releasing any data. DOJ called the GC of BofA and told them to hire </span><a href="http://littlesis.org/org/16238/Hunton&Williams" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 15.7143px; background: rgb(255, 255, 224);">Hunton & Williams</a><span style="line-height: 15.7143px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224);">, specifically to hire </span><a href="http://littlesis.org/person/75583/Richard_L_Wyatt_Jr" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; line-height: 15.7143px; background: rgb(255, 255, 224);">Richard Wyatt</a><span style="line-height: 15.7143px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224);"> who I'm beginning to think is the emperor. They want to present to the bank a team capable of doing a</span><span style="line-height: 15.7143px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> comprehensive investigation into the data leak."</span></font></li></div></div></div><p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></b></p><p><b><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">EXCLUSIVE: US Chamber’s Lobbyists Solicited Hackers To Sabotage Unions, Smear Chamber’s Political Opponents</font></b>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ThinkProgress has learned that a law firm representing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the big business trade association representing ExxonMobil, AIG, and other major international corporations, is working with set of <b>“private security” companies and lobbying firms to undermine their political opponents, including ThinkProgress, with a surreptitious sabotage campaign.</b></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>According to e-mails obtained by ThinkProgress, the Chamber hired the lobbying firm Hunton and Williams. Hunton And Williams’ attorney Richard Wyatt, who<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> once represented Food Lion in its infamous lawsuit against ABC News,</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> was hired by the Chamber in October of last year</span>. To assist the Chamber, Wyatt and his associates, John Woods and Bob Quackenboss, solicited a set of private security firms — HBGary Federal, Palantir, and Berico Technologies (collectively called Team Themis) — to develop tactics for damaging progressive groups and labor unions, in particular ThinkProgress, the labor coalition called Change to Win, the SEIU, US Chamber Watch, <font color="#ff0000"><b>and StopTheChamber.com.</b></font></font></p>

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<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/21/us/appeals-court-rejects-damages-against-abc-in-food-lion-case.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/21/us/appeals-court-rejects-damages-against-abc-in-food-lion-case.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm</font></a>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It's been exactly a year since international pranksters, The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Yes Men, made headlines <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-hoax_n_326069.html%3Cbr%20/%3Ehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-hoax_n_326069.html%3Cbr%20/%3Ehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/19/chamber-of-commerce-hoax_n_326069.html" target="_hplink">by posing as Chamber of Commerce officials</a> and staging a press conference in Washington, D.C. to announce their support for comprehensive climate change legislation.</span></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">And the Chamber is <em>still</em> not amused.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A week after the incident -- which used a fake press release and a modified version of the Chamber's Website to fool several news organizations -- <a href="http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/yesmen/chambercomplaint.pdf" target="_hplink">the Chamber <font color="#ff0000">sued</font> The Yes Men</a>, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">alleging that the parody crossed the line into <b>fraud.</b></span></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Chamber hired high-powered lawyer Richard Wyatt Jr. of Hunton & Williams. The attorney once represented<b> Food Lion in its infamous lawsuit against ABC News after the news network reported that the food chain sold unsanitary beef.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> His firm, which commands some of the highest hourly rates in the legal world</span>, is still pursuing the Chamber's case against The<b> Yes Men, who are being represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, </b>a nonprofit that supports increased protection for Internet civil liberties.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Currently, The Yes Men's motion to dismiss the case is still pending.</b> A spokesperson for the Chamber emailed HuffPost that its request to start discovery in the case is still pending. Wyatt did not return calls for comment.</font></p>