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Lin Wood’s legal woes include more than just litigation surrounding the 2020 election. He’s also dealing with a lawsuit in Georgia in which his former law partners — Nicole Wade, Jonathan Grunberg, and Taylor Wilson — claim Wood fraudulently induced them into signing a settlement agreement following the break up of their firm that Wood then breached.
During a court hearing today, the attorney for Wade said that, after Wood slammed her to his Telegram followers, the threats came rolling in. As reported by Law & Crime:
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On Thursday, Wade’s attorney Andrew Beal claimed that Wood called Wade a “lying ghost” to his hundreds of thousands of followers on Telegram, sparking some to besiege her with threatening messages.
“You f-ing snake,” one message allegedly read, according to Beal. “We will not stop until you’re put to the sword.”Beal added: “Then it’s topped off with threats of gang rape.”
Wood has denied the allegations, saying, “I just resent the idea that I threatened anybody. I don’t do that.”
The lawsuit also includes some wild allegations that appear to document the increasingly bizarre behavior of Wood:
“In the Fall of 2019, defendant Wood also committed assault and battery on Grunberg in an elevator of a hotel during an out of town deposition,” they wrote in their complaint, which also alleges that Wood attacked Wilson. “In both assaults, there was essentially no reason whatsoever for the attack, and defendant Wood later acknowledged and apologized for this violence.”
According to the lawsuit, Wood likened himself to Biblical figures and had a habit of associating himself with “God Almighty.”
“I might actually be Christ coming back for a second time in the form of an imperfect man, elevating Christ consciousness,” Wood was taped saying, according to a remarkable footnote of his ex-associates’ motion. “That cause you to have a little bit of a chill? Who would be more eloquent to say what the will of God is, the belief of God in me.”
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Following this “erratic, hostile, abusive, and threatening” behavior, Wade, Grunberg, and Wilson went on to establish their own law firm.
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