NRA leader agreed to pay $500,000 to settle lawsuit tied to 2020 election, records show
Bill Bachenberg, a supporter of President Donald Trump and a leader within the National Rifle Association, agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a Michigan lawsuit that alleged he refused to compensate a cybersecurity expert who failed to uncover fraud in the 2020 election, according to a court filing.
A dismissal motion submitted in Michigan's Eastern U.S. District Court Wednesday revealed the deal between Bachenberg and Yaacov Apelbaum, who was the president and chief technology officer of the firm XRVision, Ltd.
Apelbaum originally sued Bachenberg, a Pennsylvania resident, and lawyer Stefanie Lambert, a Michigan resident, in July 2023. Apelbaum's lawsuit said Bachenberg and Lambert had become "furious" and declined to pay him after he authored a report in 2022 that "did not find any evidence of election fraud in the 2020 election."
At the time, some supporters of Trump, a Republican, were searching for evidence in a bid to prove there was widespread fraud that influenced the outcome of the 2020 race, which Trump lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
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