Hey DU, I was participating in a thread (I only posted one short comment) at Star News Online and look what happened because of the thread due to another user! Talk about shooting yourself in the FOOT!
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Republican Wilmington NC mayoral candidate Paul Knight filed a lawsuit Thursday against an unidentified person who posted negative comments about him on StarNews online forums.
The suit, filed in New Hanover County Superior Court, seeks at least $50,000 in compensatory damages and $50,000 in punitive damages for each statement. The defendant is identified in the lawsuit as “John Doe aka sandy.brown.realtor,” the online user name of the person who wrote the statements about Knight.
According to the suit, sandy.brown.realtor posted “liable (sic) and slanderous allegations” about alleged embezzlement by Knight of 401(k) contributions of Sea-Comm employees. The unknown defendant also posted allegations that Knight has been “sued for sexual harassment.”
In 2006, he said, an employee reported to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration that employees’ 401(k) contributions weren’t getting deposited into their accounts in a timely manner. Knight said the 401(k) program had only recently been established at Sea-Comm. He soon learned that administering the program was a complex matter for a small business. Plus, he said, a new business manager at the time didn’t make the deposits as she was supposed to. About 15 employees were affected, Knight said.
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Source: Star News Online at:
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20091022/ARTICLES/910229939