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An eccentric billionaire is accusing President Donald Trump of fraud relating to his family's biggest recent grift scheme, and in an interview with The Intelligencer magazine, further accused the president of "threatening" him to keep quiet.
Intelligencer called Chinese billionaire Justin Sun "one of the richest people in the world, having made his fortune in the no-rules early phase of the crypto industry" in its Monday profile, further detailing how he invested $30 million in the Trump family's crypto firm World Liberty Financial and joined it as an advisor in late 2024. The firm has emerged as the epicenter of the Trump family's cryptocurrency dealings, and, in the wake of numerous shady deals, is now considered its biggest overall financial venture.
As he moved forward with World Liberty Financial, however, Sun came to see the investment as a "colossal mistake," as the firm's promised products never materialized and its various tokens crashed in value, costing investors massive sums of money. In April of this year, he sued the company, "alleging fraud and breach of contract."
"Today, the thing I regret the most is not only that my money got stuck but that my name is on the project,” Sun told the outlet. “I believe many other people also got harmed... I never expected this to happen to me. This is the worst-case scenario."
He added further: “I thought surely these people would not do what they did with such a public profile attached. Looking back, I was wrong about that. Unfortunately, as alleged in the complaint, certain operators leveraged the Trump brand to profit through fraud.”
Sun's suit against World Liberty notably does not name either Trump or his sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and he claims to remain an "ardent supporter" of the president. He insisted to one source who spoke with the Intelligencer that the suit is not a "political issue," and accused the company of acting "like young punk criminals" and giving the crypto a industry a bad name.
The company, meanwhile, did not sit back in response to Sun's suit.
"On May 4, a couple of weeks after Sun filed his suit, World Liberty sued him for defamation," the report detailed. "Represented by the law firm Clare Locke, which successfully sued Fox News over its 'big lie' coverage following the 2020 election, World Liberty tells a different version of events. Though sections of its accusations are redacted, World Liberty claims in the suit that it froze Sun’s coins to 'protect' itself and its investors from prohibited conduct by Sun. Just before the $WLFI tokens started trading, the company alleges, Sun placed a large bet against them, transferring $300 million 'to fund an aggressive short position.' It also claims Sun made 'straw purchases' on behalf of other investors. Notably, though, World Liberty did not sue Sun for breach of contract or fraud."
Sun dismissed this suit as an effort to silence him.
“I believe that World Liberty is trying to threaten me into silence, but that will not work,” he said. “I stand by the decision to speak out about conduct that I believe was improper and harmful to token holders... I believe the evidence will prove our allegations to be true.”
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Libby is a highly accomplished defamation lawyer and commercial litigator who devotes her practice to representing clients facing high-profile reputational attacks and litigating complex business disputes.
Libby has extensive experience representing clients in defamation matters adverse to national print, broadcast, and online media outlets—and she routinely advises clients who are dealing with the media in crisis situations. She has litigated high-profile libel and slander cases and—both in and outside of the litigation process—has obtained prominent corrections, retractions, and apologies for her clients. In the courtroom, Libby was lead trial counsel for Nicole Eramo in a defamation action against Rolling Stone magazine, securing a $3 million jury verdict for the false and defamatory article about an alleged gang-rape at the University of Virginia. Libby is lead appellate counsel for former Gov. Sarah Palin before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals arising out of a false and defamatory article published by The New York Times. She is also actively litigating matters against CNN, Bloomberg, Katie Couric, and Anderson Cooper. Outside the courtroom, some of Libby’s biggest defamation “wins” are stories the public will never hear about; she has killed flawed articles, storylines, and broadcast segments in outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair and The Dr. Oz Show.
As a former partner at one of the nation’s premier law firms, Libby also has extensive experience handling complex business disputes in state and federal courts around the country. Libby has litigated class actions, mass actions, data breaches, agent compensation issues, hurricane and catastrophe coverage issues, associational standing cases, efforts by the media to intervene and unseal confidential documents and information, internal leak investigations, securities matters, RICO, and construction matters. As a former law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and mentee of senior appellate litigation partners at Kirkland, Libby has extensive experience handling appeals and amicus briefs in the federal Courts of Appeals, the United States Supreme Court and the Virginia Supreme Court.
Libby is ranked as a Band 1 global defamation/reputation management provider in the 2016 and 2017 Chambers & Partners HNWdirectory for the private wealth market. In 2014 and 2017, she was named a “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers magazine. Libby and her work are regularly featured in the news, including most recently on ABC’s20/20, CNN, and in The Washington PostandThe Wall Street Journal.
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Husband and wife litigators Tom Clare and Libby Locke—founders of Kirkland & Ellis:{spin-off boutique Clare Locke:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}:—led a team in winning a $26 million defamation verdict in the Eastern District of North Carolina against Puma Biotechnology and its CEO on Friday.
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Libby Locke and Tom Clare of Clare Locke, Washington D.C. (Courtesy photo)
Safeguarding the reputation of prominent clients has long been a ticket to success in the legal profession, especially in scandal-plagued Washington, D.C.
It's a skill that's in high demand these days, amid cascading allegations against powerful media and government figures and competing claims about who's peddling so-called Fake News—all supercharged by the #MeToo movement and the polarized politics of the Trump era.
In other words, it's the perfect environment for Tom Clare and Libby Locke.
The Washington-area husband-and-wife team seems to be everywhere these days, noted (and sometimes reviled) for their work on behalf of the unloved and accused. Their Alexandria, Virginia, defamation and commercial litigation boutique, Clare Locke, hasn't shied away from the black hat trope put forward by critics who have labeled them “media assassins.” Instead, their website flaunts their success at having “killed” stories at prominent publications.
Clare and Locke left the partnership at Kirkland & Ellis and opened their boutique steps from the Potomac River in 2014, in a Virginian townhouse with ample roaming room for their dog, Gipper. The pet is named for either Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne or former President Ronald Reagan, depending on whether you believe Clare, a Fighting Irish alumnus, or Locke, whose favorite president is Reagan.
The duo bristles at the notion that they are hired guns paid to silence the press. They say the plaintiffs-side defamation work they do involves three components—pre-publication counseling, post-publication retraction, and defamation litigation.
“They are worthy adversaries, and they are very good at what they do,” said Lee Levine, Ballard Spahr senior counsel and a leading First Amendment attorney defending media clients. “I would describe them as zealous advocates—and I think it’s fair to say there isn’t an issue in defamation law in which I agree with them.”
" data-reactid="18" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Safeguarding the reputation of prominent clients has long been a ticket to success in the legal profession, especially in scandal-plagued Washington, D.C.It's a skill that's in high demand these days, amid cascading allegations against powerful media and government figures and competing claims about who's peddling so-called Fake News—all supercharged by the #MeToo movement and the polarized politics of the Trump era.
In other words, it's the perfect environment for Tom Clare and Libby Locke.
The Washington-area husband-and-wife team seems to be everywhere these days, noted (and sometimes reviled) for their work on behalf of the unloved and accused. Their Alexandria, Virginia, defamation and commercial litigation boutique, Clare Locke, hasn't shied away from the black hat trope put forward by critics who have labeled them “media assassins.” Instead, their website flaunts their success at having “killed” stories at prominent publications.
Clare and Locke left the partnership at Kirkland & Ellis and opened their boutique steps from the Potomac River in 2014, in a Virginian townhouse with ample roaming room for their dog, Gipper. The pet is named for either Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne or former President Ronald Reagan, depending on whether you believe Clare, a Fighting Irish alumnus, or Locke, whose favorite president is Reagan.
The duo bristles at the notion that they are hired guns paid to silence the press. They say the plaintiffs-side defamation work they do involves three components—pre-publication counseling, post-publication retraction, and defamation litigation.
“They are worthy adversaries, and they are very good at what they do,” said Lee Levine, Ballard Spahr senior counsel and a leading First Amendment attorney defending media clients. “I would describe them as zealous advocates—and I think it’s fair to say there isn’t an issue in defamation law in which I agree with them.”
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Levine, who is defending The New York Times against a lawsuit brought by Clare Locke on behalf of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said he has known Clare and Locke for several years. He said few lawyers on the East Coast have been able to establish a practice comparable to theirs, which he noted is more commonly found closer to Hollywood.
The decision to break away from Kirkland was inevitable in retrospect. Clare and Locke proffered that positional conflicts, conflicts created by increasing corporatization of media ownership, and the need to offer rate flexibility made leaving Big Law a necessity.
They now lead a team of nine lawyers, including five Kirkland expats and four recruited from other firms and law schools.
"Our firm culture is incredibly important to us, and so we have always grown in size methodically and deliberately in order to assemble the right team," they said in an email. "We are looking for lawyers who share our mission and our passion for this area of the law. Given those very specialized criteria, we expect to accomplish future growth by targeted recruiting efforts rather than through a combination with another firm."
Clare Locke’s timing was “brilliant and lucky, or some combination of the two,” said Levine, as the burgeoning boutique scored some high profile wins that drew new clients to its door. The pair scored a multimillion-dollar victory against Rolling Stone for University of Virginia associate dean Nicole Eramo regarding false claims made in the 2014 article “A Rape on Campus.”
The amount of work arriving on their doorstep has only soared since, which they attribute to the proliferation of cable television channels and the explosion of social media and online news. They said competitive pressures combined with shrinking media budgets have made institutional checks-and-balances such as fact-checking increasingly scarce.
“The rise in the number of outlets means, not only a rise in the number of platforms where defamation can occur, but also intense competition among these outlets to 'be first' in publishing news,” Clare and Locke said. “The rush to be first leads to more mistakes (whether intentional or not), more salacious headlines and content to attract readership, and thus, more false and damaging articles being published.”
President Donald Trump’s outspoken criticism of the media—alongside the conduct of what Clare and Locke call “reckless media outlets” such as Rolling Stone and Gawker (another adversary)—may have emboldened potential victims previously intimidated into staying silent. And more recent legal battles, such as CNN’s dispute with the White House access for Jim Acosta, may have given ammunition to plaintiffs-side defamation lawyers such as Clare, who argues that, “journalists do not get a special hall pass to disobey rules of general applicability.”
“The First Amendment is not magical pixie dust that somehow immunizes people from any sort of scrutiny from the way they behave or the like,” Clare said of CNN’s dispute on the Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast.
Clare Locke is litigating against CNN in a different case—on behalf of a pediatric heart surgeon who filed a defamation suit in Florida. CNN has fought to keep its editorial standards secret as part of its defense in the case.
Levine said he thinks the the number of defamation suits brought by well-financed public figures has risen in recent years, as the individuals find such litigation to be a useful tool against the press. He said courts need to “rise to the occasion” and tell plaintiffs that such tactics will not work, and he compared the legal landscape for media to the time “in the early 60s," before the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision in New York Times v. Sullivanestablished the actual malice standard.
Clare and Locke aren't sympathetic to the notion that prominent public figures have an unfair advantage when it comes to protecting their reputations. They have represented several clients facing #MeToo-related accusations, including Jeff Fager, the fired executive producer of CBS’ “60 Minutes,” and reports have linked them to many more, including The New York Times’ Glenn Thrush; Kimberly Guilfoyle, formerly of Fox News; and fired NBC anchor Matt Lauer.
In representing such clients, Clare Locke has argued that the playing field has tilted substantially toward the accusers, and Locke has pointed to the controversy surrounding Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight as evidence. The effect of sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh contradicted the “Victorian notion” that women are powerless compared to men, Locke argued in The Wall Street Journal in September.
“The circus this process has become demonstrates not only the power of #MeToo, but also its potential as a weapon—and how an audience eager for victim narratives and sinister power dynamics can be galvanized without proof to shatter a man’s reputation built over a lifetime of hard work,” Locke wrote of the confirmation fight.
Since Kavanaugh joined the nation’s highest court, clients have only continued to line up for the firm. In subsequent weeks, Major League Baseball and Breitbart, a Trump-supporting media outlet, have reportedly retained Clare Locke. And given the state of politics and media, there's no sign of a slowdown anytime soon." data-reactid="20" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;">Levine, who is defending The New York Times against a lawsuit brought by Clare Locke on behalf of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, said he has known Clare and Locke for several years. He said few lawyers on the East Coast have been able to establish a practice comparable to theirs, which he noted is more commonly found closer to Hollywood.
The decision to break away from Kirkland was inevitable in retrospect. Clare and Locke proffered that positional conflicts, conflicts created by increasing corporatization of media ownership, and the need to offer rate flexibility made leaving Big Law a necessity.
They now lead a team of nine lawyers, including five Kirkland expats and four recruited from other firms and law schools.
"Our firm culture is incredibly important to us, and so we have always grown in size methodically and deliberately in order to assemble the right team," they said in an email. "We are looking for lawyers who share our mission and our passion for this area of the law. Given those very specialized criteria, we expect to accomplish future growth by targeted recruiting efforts rather than through a combination with another firm."
Clare Locke’s timing was “brilliant and lucky, or some combination of the two,” said Levine, as the burgeoning boutique scored some high profile wins that drew new clients to its door. The pair scored a multimillion-dollar victory against Rolling Stone for University of Virginia associate dean Nicole Eramo regarding false claims made in the 2014 article “A Rape on Campus.”
The amount of work arriving on their doorstep has only soared since, which they attribute to the proliferation of cable television channels and the explosion of social media and online news. They said competitive pressures combined with shrinking media budgets have made institutional checks-and-balances such as fact-checking increasingly scarce.
“The rise in the number of outlets means, not only a rise in the number of platforms where defamation can occur, but also intense competition among these outlets to 'be first' in publishing news,” Clare and Locke said. “The rush to be first leads to more mistakes (whether intentional or not), more salacious headlines and content to attract readership, and thus, more false and damaging articles being published.”
President Donald Trump’s outspoken criticism of the media—alongside the conduct of what Clare and Locke call “reckless media outlets” such as Rolling Stone and Gawker (another adversary)—may have emboldened potential victims previously intimidated into staying silent. And more recent legal battles, such as CNN’s dispute with the White House access for Jim Acosta, may have given ammunition to plaintiffs-side defamation lawyers such as Clare, who argues that, “journalists do not get a special hall pass to disobey rules of general applicability.”
:{“The First Amendment is not magical pixie dust that somehow immunizes people from any sort of scrutiny from the way they behave or the like,” Clare said of CNN’s dispute on the Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast.
Clare Locke is litigating against CNN in a different}:case—on behalf of a pediatric heart surgeon whofileda defamation suit in Florida. CNN has fought to keep its editorial standardssecretas part of its defense in the case.
Levine said he thinks the the number of defamation suits brought by well-financed public figures has risen in recent years, as the individuals find such litigation to be a useful tool against the press. He said courts need to “rise to the occasion” and tell plaintiffs that such tactics will not work, and he compared the legal landscape for media to the time “in the early 60s," before the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision inNew York Times v. Sullivanestablished the actual malice standard.
Clare and Locke aren't sympathetic to the notion that prominent public figures have an unfair advantage when it comes to protecting their reputations. They haverepresented several clients facing #MeToo-related accusations, including Jeff Fager, the fired executive producer of CBS’ “60 Minutes,” and reports have linked them to many more, including The New York Times’ Glenn Thrush; Kimberly Guilfoyle, formerly of Fox News; and fired NBC anchor Matt Lauer.
:{In representing such clients, Clare Locke has argued that the playing field has tilted substantially toward the accusers, and Locke has pointed to the controversy surrounding Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation fight as evidence. The effect of sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh contradicted the “Victorian notion” that women are powerless compared to men, Locke argued in The Wall Street Journal in September.
“The circus this process has become demonstrates not only the power of #MeToo, but also its potential as a weapon—and how an audience eager for victim narratives and sinister power dynamics can be galvanized without proof to shatter a man’s reputation built over a lifetime of hard work,” Locke wrote of the confirmation fight.
Since Kavanaugh joined the nation’s highest court, clients have only continued to line up for the firm}:. In subsequent weeks,Major League BaseballandBreitbart, a Trump-supporting media outlet, have reportedly retained Clare Locke. And given the state of politics and media, there's no sign of a slowdown anytime soon.
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New York Times, NBC, and ‘60 Minutes’ Bigwigs Hired These Media Assassins to Fight #MeToo Stories
Clare Locke boasts about ‘killing stories’ and some of America’s most prominent journalists have worked with them.
Lachlan Cartwright
Lachlan Cartwright
07.19.18 9:00 PM ET
EXCLUSIVE
Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast
One of television’s most powerful men, 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager, hired a law firm that boasts about “killing stories” for a Washington Post investigation into him, three sources familiar with the matter told The Daily Beast.
The story was a deep dive into what CBS managers knew about former anchor Charlie Rose’s alleged sexual misconduct, but due to the aggressive tactics of law firm Clare Locke, the sources said, the story was “effectively neutered.”
Clare Locke also did work for former Today show host Matt Lauer and current New York Times reporter Glenn Thrush, three sources say. Both men were accused in news publications of sexually harassing women. The law firm was also recently hired by David Pecker, the CEO and chairman of American Media Inc., parent company of the National Enquirer, to try and shut down a negative story from a newspaper, according to two sources.
Clare Locke is the creation of husband and wife team Tom Clare and Elizabeth “Libby” Locke. “Some of Libby’s biggest defamation ‘wins’ are stories the public will never hear about,” her website says. They have litigated against Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Katie Couric, CNN, and Gawker, to name a few.
And despite being retained by some of the biggest names in media, Locke has publicly backed President Trump’s call to “open up” libel laws and attacked shield laws that protect journalists from disclosing their sources in court. “How are you supposed to prove as a defamation plaintiff that the journalist knew what they were writing was false if you don’t have access to the identities of their sources? It’s really problematic,” she said in a speech last year to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.
Locke continued, saying she wanted to “talk a little bit about why the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of freedom of the press.”
Last November, The Washington Post broke the story that eight women had accused CBS News anchor Charlie Rose of sexual harassment, going back decades. Reporters Amy Brittain and Irin Carmon weren’t done when that was published, though, and went back to dig on who knew what and when at CBS, three sources say.
By April, Fager and other CBS News executives were “all terrified about a looming Washington Post investigation that’s now been in the works for months,” the New York Post’s Page Six reported.
On May 3, The Washington Post reported Rose’s alleged harassment was more widespread than first reported and that three managers were told. Fager, who installed Rose on the 60 Minutes roster in 2008 and tapped him for the CBS morning show in 2011, was barely mentioned. He told the Post he hadn’t learned of the allegations against Rose until the first report emerged in November.
Multiple sources say the follow-up story as filed had included more reporting about Fager.
Clare Locke was “able to slow it down and in effect change the dynamic,” a person with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast. The law firm sent The Washington Post several letters threatening litigation, the sources said. As a result, other reporting about Fager was left out of the published story, three sources said.
An investigative journalist who has been on the receiving end of a Clare Locke letter said it’s effective: “They slow it down. It’s just annoying. It spooks you which can then spook your sources.”
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REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS::{- Represent University of Virginia Associate Dean of Students, Nicole Eramo, in a defamation action against Rolling Stone, Wenner Media and Sabrina Erdely for false and defamatory statements published in Rolling Stone magazine in the now-discredited article, “A Rape on Campus.”
- Represent global consumer products company and its Chief Executive Officer in a defamation action filed against Mother Jones magazine and two of its employees for false and defamatory statements published online.
- Represent publicly traded company in opposing motions by Reuters to intervene and unseal confidential company documents.
- Represent former director in defamation action filed against publicly traded company for false and defamatory statements in proxy statement.
- Represented prominent art collector in pre-publication defamation matters adverse to The New York Times and Bloomberg Businessweek.
- Provide ongoing defamation advice and counseling to hedge fund with significant short position on a public company regarding the hedge fund’s public statements about the company and its business practices.
- Provide ongoing defamation advice and counseling to NHL and NBA teams.
- Provide ongoing defamation advice and counseling to hedge fund regarding New York Times bestselling book and associated movie rights.}:
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REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS::{- Lead counsel for national property and casualty insurer in parens patriae suit filed by state Attorney General.
- Lead counsel for national property and casualty insurer in eight-state class action regarding premium discounts.
- Trial counsel for national food distribution company in arbitration regarding accounting and indemnification disputes arising from acquisition.
- Local counsel for plaintiff in E.D. Va. (“rocket docket”) breach of contract action against government contractor for unpaid invoices.
- Trial counsel for national HVAC distributor in rebate dispute.
- Lead counsel for national life insurer in unclaimed property litigation filed by state Treasurer.
- Trial counsel for a national food distribution company in arbitration of disputed post-closing adjustments to $180M acquisition transaction.}: