Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 626: Launch (fix)

Easter Sunday is very lively and warm.

The Westeros family invited many group executives and their families to take a yacht to go for a picnic on Santa Cruz Island west of Los Angeles. During the period, they also organized various Easter activities for the children. The party did not end until the evening. , The host and the guest are happy.

Simon directly brought two Jenny and three children to appear in front of everyone this time, which is regarded as a public confession of some revelations during this period.

The attendees are all core executives of the Westeros system. They have heard about the close relationship between Simon and the female assistant, so they don’t have any special feelings. When they get along, they are sincere to a lucky little girl. Blessings, many women at the scene felt Simon's concern for the female assistants, mother and daughter, and even gave birth to the feeling of'struggling for decades is better than having a child'.

The short holiday warmth has not changed the political and public opinion chaos in the Westeros system.

Monday, April 4.

The Westeros system launched another fierce offensive after banning the Hearst Group two weeks ago.

Paul Ramat, a former business owner who once ran an auto parts factory in Edwardsville, Illinois, pointed out that the local newspaper "Edwardsville Reporter" had two years between 1986 and 1987 because he personally had a high-level relationship with the newspaper. The "Edwardsville Reporter" published six consecutive false reports accusing his company of tax evasion and product quality problems. These reports were later proved to be false, because the authorities and partners were misled by the newspapers. His investigation and severance of cooperation eventually led to the bankruptcy of his factory.

Paul Lamart filed a lawsuit against the "Edwardsville Reporter" for malicious defamation leading to serious personal property damage, demanding various compensations totaling up to 60 million US dollars. At the same time, 263 workers who were unemployed because of the closure of the parts factory also jointly filed a class action lawsuit against the "Edwardsville Reporter", and the cumulative amount of claims exceeded 50 million US dollars.

He turned to San Antonio, Texas in the southern United States.

In 1991, an appalling case of a priest assaulting a boy occurred in San Antonio. As many as 21 victims were only recorded by the police.

The priest involved was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment.

Although justice has been late for many years, it will come soon after all.

However, during the investigation of the case, San Antonio’s local "San Antonio Impressions" pursued news hotspots to attract public attention. In the case of explicit protests from the families of many victims and even warnings from local prosecutors, it continued to use direct or indirect methods. The personal information of 15 of the victims was exposed. This incident eventually led to a 12-year-old boy who committed suicide due to stress. The personal lives of the other 14 children whose personal information was exposed were also seriously affected.

Now, 15 families have jointly filed a lawsuit with the San Antonio Impressions for serious violations of citizens’ privacy, demanding a formal apology and various compensations totaling US$80 million for the 15 victims.

Connecticut on the east coast of the United States and Stamford in the north of Greenwich.

During the peak of the real estate bubble in the United States in the 1980s, a group of Stanford owners purchased 61 apartments in a newly developed district in the northern part of the city with a total of 200 properties around 1986. As a result, these apartments were later detected as illegal during construction. Use of asbestos material that is seriously carcinogenic.

The real estate developers involved have closed down due to subsequent lawsuits and the economic turmoil of the 87 stock market disaster, and many owners have not been able to get the compensation they deserve.

After many victims communicated with each other, it was discovered that most of the owners were influenced by the large-scale advertisement of the local "Stanford Advocate" before choosing to buy a house in that community. The advertising page at that time even used the words "energy saving and environmental protection". The serious factual vocabulary is used as a slogan.

As a result, the 61 owners who have been trapped in the unfinished community until now collectively filed a lawsuit against the "Stanford Advocate" on the Monday after Easter for alleged false advertising and other charges, demanding the newspaper to apologize and claim a total of more than 6000. Ten thousand dollars in compensation for personal property loss, potential health damage, etc.

The exposure of three lawsuits with cumulative claims amounting to 250 million US dollars directly shocked the American society, and the large traditional media groups in North America felt a chill.

There is no doubt that the three newspapers that have encountered lawsuits are all media under the Hearst Group.

Moreover, just these three lawsuits, the huge claim of 250 million US dollars, is equivalent to one-tenth of the total assets of the Hearst family.

The Westeros system has not concealed the truth that it is the promoter behind these three lawsuits. The detailed reports of the three lawsuits that day appeared on the front page of the Igreat portal.

In comparison, a former Wei family maid who betrayed the Westeros family and suffered a huge US$12 million breach of contract lawsuit on this day seems to be less of a concern.

With the intense attention of the entire American society, more news was exposed on the Internet and traditional media that day.

The initiators of the three lawsuits all hired the top lawyers in the United States with the help of a company called the Legal Aid Foundation for Media Victims. Industry insiders predict that the three lawsuits will involve huge claims, unless A settlement can be reached in a short period of time. Otherwise, the most conservative estimate is that the cost of lawyers for each litigation case will be more than ten million US dollars. If the three litigation cases are protracted, the cost is even harder to estimate.

Even if it is impossible to explore the details of the specific agreement signed by a certain foundation and the recipient, it is obvious that the Westeros system will certainly not easily accept the settlement of the Hearst Group.

On the other hand, as the defendant, any set of compensation amounts in the three cases is actually enough to make the newspaper involved go bankrupt and liquidated. After all, the entire Hearst Group’s annual net profit in 1993 was only US$169 million, and even these The newspaper really went bankrupt due to litigation. According to relevant federal laws, both the litigation costs and the final compensation will be borne by the parent company Hearst Group.

Simon Westero's move is definitely ten times more fierce than Hearst Group's previous scandalous exposure of others. Of course, apart from Simon Westeros, no one else in the United States or even the whole world can afford this trick.

Now, no matter how the Hearst Group responds, it will inevitably bear more serious consequences than the Westeros system banned half a month ago.

To deal with this lawsuit passively, then wait for the loss of the lawsuit to compensate 250 million US dollars.

If we respond positively, the Westeros system will not pay less than tens of millions for each litigation, and the Hearst Group cannot pay less than Simon Westero.

The only solution to this matter is to reach a settlement quickly.

However, the contradiction between the two sides lasted for several years. In the past week, the entire Hearst Group has spared no effort to expose Simon Westero’s unknown privacy, which has become the same. It is obvious that Westeros cannot agree. Reconciled quickly.

Not only that, the three lawsuits exposed today are probably just the beginning.

Now that he came up with this trick, Simon Westero can't only use it three times.

In CNN’s report on the incident that afternoon, a law professor from Columbia University analyzed that according to the materials that have been exposed, the biggest reason why Simon Westero would be the first to file these three lawsuits may be these three. The litigation is supported by relatively sufficient evidence.

Among them, in the case of the Illinois Auto Parts Factory, the victim, Paul Ramat, has actually been suing the newspaper over the years. It was only before the Westeros system provided support that he faced the powerful Hearst Group. Ramat, who was alone after the company went bankrupt, had no chance of winning at all.

The professor also pointed out that Simon Westero did not directly file a lawsuit against the Hearst Group for the false revelations he encountered during this period, but indirectly chose to support victims of disadvantaged groups at the bottom of society. The decision is even more subtle.

If Westeros sued the Hearst Group with his own experience, it would be difficult to win the support and sympathy of the media and the public. Everyone would only watch the two consortium forces tit-for-tat with a watchful attitude.

Now we are attacking the Hearst Group in this indirect way, especially the Illinois case, and we have not forgotten hundreds of employees who were unemployed because of the bankruptcy of the auto parts factory. The plaintiffs in the other two cases are also from the society. At the bottom, then, regardless of whether it is actively or forced, the media cannot show a harsh and hostile attitude, and the general public will only tend to show sympathy to them.

Suddenly becoming a defendant in three huge claims lawsuits, Hearst Group certainly will not remain indifferent.

On Monday afternoon, several evening newspapers under the Hearst Group slammed the front page of the three lawsuits as having ulterior motives under the control of Simon Westeros, and accused Simon’s actions of using his huge financial resources to humiliate the United States. The freedom of the press for more than two hundred years is a serious violation of the provisions of the First Amendment to the Federal Constitution that ensure freedom of the press.

The Eaglet Portal immediately responded to the accusations made by Hearst Group.

Freedom of the press has never been absolute freedom.

The Hearst Group used its so-called freedom of the press to wantonly slander and slander other companies, resulting in huge property losses for taxpayers and unemployment of hundreds of workers. It used its so-called freedom of the press to inflict secondary harm on victims of sexual assault, and used its so-called freedom of the press. Freedom of the press for real estate developers’ false propaganda has caused double damage to citizens’ property and personal health. This is not freedom.

This is a crime!

In addition to the direct counter-attack articles, the Eaglet portal immediately re-exposed the Hearst Group’s past abuses of news dominance in the form of a large topic.

At the end of the nineteenth century, in order to promote the sales of their own newspapers, the Hearst family used quite despicable means to provoke a war between the United States and Spain, which directly led to the unfortunate death of tens of thousands of people on both sides of the war.

In 1901, because supporters of the Hearst family lost the election in the presidential election, the newspapers of the Hearst Group publicly instigated the public to assassinate the president. The 25th President of the United States, William McKinley, was assassinated. There is even a newspaper containing articles inciting the assassination of the Hearst family.

In 1909, due to the lack of sufficient information about World War I, the Hearst Group simply organized a group of people to fabricate news out of thin air, causing a sensation in the "International News Agency Fraud Case".

The list extends from the 1890s to the 1990s.

Such all kinds.

Not to mention the ‘yellow news’ standard created by the Hearst Group, which still seriously interferes with the fairness and seriousness of news media worldwide.

The fierce chattering continued until Tuesday, when Eaglet Portal suddenly announced once again that Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner will re-screen the classic Hollywood film "Citizen Kane" on April 22 in major theaters in North America.

As we all know, the actor prototype of "Citizen Kane" is William Hirst, the first generation head of the Hearst family.

The news article also deliberately extracted the chilling plot in "Citizen Kane". Kane asked the Cuban reporter to write some poems describing the tragic scenes of the local war. The reporter reported that there was no war in the area, and Kevin replied to the telegram. : "Dear Whit, you are responsible for writing poems, and I will provide war."

No matter how hysterical the Hearst family was, the subpoenas for the three lawsuits were delivered to the heads of the corresponding newspapers under the Hearst Group with a rare efficiency in the United States government on the third day after the lawsuits were initiated.

At this point, the Hurst family, who had been arrogant for a century, finally realized what a behemoth they were facing, and finally realized how vulnerable their media weapons that had made the American market politics fearful in the past are in the face of absolute overwhelming power.

Out of the sad state of mind, other media groups in the United States more or less raised objections to Simon's behavior, but with the lessons of the Hirst family, these voices were very cautious.

In politics, among the many congressional candidates who are busy running for the midterm elections, even David Merros, who is supported by the Hearst family, has chosen to be silent, but there is always no shortage of prominence.

After holding on to the Westeros system, Craig Ames, the Democratic Senator of Wisconsin, sleekly expressed sympathy and support for the plaintiffs in the three lawsuits, and immediately pointed the finger at Simon, saying this again. Although the young super-rich has done a right thing temporarily, his huge wealth still needs to be strictly limited, otherwise it will inevitably cause potentially huge damage to American society.

The Eaglet portal simply did not respond to Craig Ames’ remarks. After all, the response was to raise the profile of the other party. The Westeros system’s team responsible for attacking the ultra-left congressman candidate has quietly moved into Wisconsin, and this is the main force against the opponent.

Since it is a ‘litigation bombing’ plan, there are certainly more than three lawsuits against the Hearst Group.

As analyzed by some media, the main reason for choosing these three cases is that the evidence is relatively solid, and the victims of the three lawsuits are relatively disadvantaged groups. Even if they are not sure, most of the media dare not speak out harshly.

In addition to the three lawsuits, the team led by George Norman, Uncle Jennifer, is also collecting information on as many as 27 other potential lawsuits. Most of the lawsuits and claims are not as large as the three that have been made public. It is eye-catching and will continue to be released in the future, which is enough for the Hearst Group to be exhausted.

Although there is no explicit announcement of any recruitment nature, after the opening of these three lawsuits, more victims of the Hearst Group's media have contacted the Westeros system in hopes of obtaining legal aid.

In the next few years, even if all the lawsuits are not won once, the huge litigation costs are enough to erode all the income of the Hearst Group and further devour the foundation of the Hearst family.

What's more, it is impossible to win a lawsuit without winning.

Simon's request for the top law firms is to win the lawsuit and cooperate continuously in the future. If they lose, there is no future.

Therefore, the actual situation is that most of the lawsuits have very big wins.

Even if the final compensation amount may not reach the litigation figures, as long as any litigation wins, huge claims are basically enough to make a newspaper under the Hearst Group go bankrupt.

When the Hurst family was struggling with a series of lawsuits that came suddenly, the huge Westeros system was not disturbed much, and it still operated as usual.

Wednesday, April 6.

When most of the media and public's attention fell on the litigation dispute between the Westeros system and the Hearst Group, Daenerys Entertainment Group, one of the core enterprises of the Westeros system, officially reported to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC) Submit an IPO application.

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