Earlier this yr NewULife filed a lawsuit towards a former distributor for claims made towards the corporate.
What differentiated this case was that the cited claims have been taken from personal Fb chats, which neither celebration had supplied to NewULife.
Kevin Thompson, who’s representing defendant Georgia Hargett (aka Georgia Balsley), lately supplied some updates on the case.
In a sworn assertion made in connection to the case, NewULife distributor Debra Ambrose has admitted to offering NewULife with Hargett’s personal Fb chat logs.
However how did Ambrose get entry to the logs to start with?
In her sworn assertion Ambrose (proper) states that she labored with Hargett, who she claims
had hassle with know-how and couldn’t deal with her social media accounts on her personal.
Accordingly, Hargett supplied Ambrose “all her related passwords”. In doing so, Ambrose claims Hargett
expressly granted (her) permission to entry her social media accounts and web site, together with her Fb Messenger account.
In some unspecified time in the future Ambrose states she was informed by different NewULife distributors that Hargett was “telling those who NewULife CEO Alex Goldstein was a fraud”.
Ambrose states she confronted Hargett, who denied the claims.
Ambrose states she then
found messages on (Hargett’s) Fb Messenger account … saying unfavourable issues about NewULife and folks associates with NewULife.
I took screenshots of a number of of these messages and supplied them to NewULife company.
A few of these messages have been hooked up to the Grievance in (NewULife’s) lawsuit.
Ambrose doesn’t state why she was poking round in Hargett’s personal Fb Messenger conversations, however maintains she ‘by no means gained unauthorized entry to Hargett’s accounts‘.
In a separate sworn assertion, Hargett identifies Ambrose as her NewULife upline (the distributor who recruited her).
Hargett claims that whereas she gave Ambrose entry to her YouTube account, she “vehemently denies” giving her ‘authorization to entry and/or learn any of (her) Fb Messenger messages‘.
Though not unusual, Hargett made the safety mistake of utilizing the identical login credentials between her YouTube and Fb accounts.
However, as asserted by Hargett;
A lot of my Fb Messenger messages contained extremely confidential data, together with extraordinarily delicate well being data that many contacts selected to share with me.
As a result of these messages contained such well being data and I valued the boldness by which folks shared this delicate data, I’ve by no means freely supplied anyone with authorization to entry my Fb or Fb messenger.
A chat screenshot exhibit filed by Hargett actually seems to help her declare.
To me it appears fairly clear, except Ambrose can present proof of
- Hargett giving her express permission to entry her Fb account; and/or
- proof of Ambrose performing any social media advertising and marketing actions associated to NewULife on Hargett’s Fb account,
then she was clearly not licensed to entry the account. Nor was there any implied understanding that Ambrose would entry Hargett’s social media accounts past YouTube.
I’m undecided what the authorized implications of Ambrose’s conduct are, however regardless it’s nonetheless a fairly surprising abuse of belief.
First in accessing personal messages after which copying them and offering them to a third-party.
After which to have these personal messages be the inspiration of a public defamation lawsuit? What on Earth are NewULife considering?
Kevin Thompson additionally shared {that a} filed Anti-SLAPP movement to dismiss claims towards co-defendant Patti Sinclair was granted on one rely.
On three remaining counts the movement was denied.
This case just isn’t solely about these communications (although these details SHOCK THE CONSCIENCE).
It’s a case about an organization dealing with severe challenges domestically desperately doing its greatest to intimidate its former reps (my purchasers) from sharing their opinions each publicly AND privately.
NewULife is a rabid canine doing way more hurt than good.
NewULife’s lawsuit towards Sinclair and Hargett continues.