BREAKING: Neal Rauhauser Named as Defendant in @Bullyville Federal Lawsuit

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Former Democrat political operative Neal Rauhauser has been named among the defendants in a federal lawsuit filed by the operator of the popular anti-bullying web site Bullyville.com.

In the lawsuit, McGibney v. Retzlaff, Bullyville founder James McGibney says his business was harmed as a result of online smears and harassment conducted by a Texas man, Thomas Retzlaff, a fan of so-called “revenge porn” sites targeted by Bullyville. McGibney’s lawsuit also names Rauhauser and a New York woman, Lane Lipton, as having assisted and promoted the attacks against Bullyville.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, charges Retzlaff, Rauhauser, Lipton and five unknown “John Doe” defendants with tortious interference with contractual relations, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, intentional infliction of emotional distress, defamation, and public disclosure invasion of privacy.

McGibney’s lawsuit claims Rauhauser and Lipton used several online aliases, including the bvtruth.wordpress.com web site and the Twitter accounts @OccupyRebellion, @MissAnonNews and @BV_Truth, to make false accusations against Bullyville:

The very first post on bvfiles.wordpress.com is a small post asking, “Is McGibney a  pedophile?” . . . Defendants posted a picture of McGibney’s children under the Pedophilia comments with the caption “are these children in danger?”

Rauhauser, who was once a partner in the Democrat digital media consulting firm Progressive PST, has more recently been known as an associate of Brett Kimberlin, the Indiana “Speedway Bomber.” A convicted perjurer, forger and drug smuggler who gained notoriety for making unsubstantiated claims that he sold marijuana to Dan Quayle, Kimberlin created two non-profit “progressive” organizations after his release from prison in 2001. Several of Kimberlin’s critics have suggested that Rauhauser, a self-described computer hacker and ally of the so-called “Anonymous” hacking conspiracy, was paid by Kimberlin to harass them into silence. Kimberlin last fall filed a federal lawsuit accusing more than 20 defendants — including syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, Red State editor Erick Erickson, Breitbart.com and author James O’Keefe III — of engaging in a conspiracy to defame him.

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  1. Two questions pop in my head from time to time:

    Who else has hired Neal Rauhauser to harass “enemies”?
    Who else does Brett Kimberlin pay to speak on his behalf?

  2. Interesting. This one’s in my backyard at the Northern District. Have to keep an eye on it. Don’t know much about Judge Lloyd, though. Hopefully he isn’t another Vaughan Walker.

  3. Let me emphasize that we don’t know, as a fact, that Kimberlin ever gave Rauhauser a dime. What we know is that:

    1. Rauhauser met Kimberlin sometime in spring 2011.
    2. In July 2011, Rauhauser moved to D.C. area, saying he had a new job .
    3. In fall 2011, Rauhauser represented himself as an agent of Kimberlin’s group, Velvet Revolution US, in dealings with organizers of the “Occupy” protest movement.
    4. Also in fall 2011, Rauhauser said he had been hired to provide “protective services” to a “client” who was head of a DC-based “NGO” (non-government organization), which description would seem to mean Kimberlin.
    5. Rauhauser attended several court appearances with Kimberlin in 2012, and Kimberlin told the court that Rauhauser was his “associate.”

    Well, if Kimberlin and Rauhauser were “associates,” why? What service did Rauhauser provide to Kimberlin? It would appear — a reasonable surmise based on visible evidence — that this involved the online harassment that Patrick Frey, Mandy Nagy, Aaron Walker and others complained about. This is what is suspected, but it is thus far impossible to prove, because both Kimberlin and Rauhauser have been secretive about the nature of their association.

  9. What is it with some of these people and their faux concern for kids? NR allegedly owes $50,000 in back child support, and left his ex to raise his kids. Schmalfeldt threatened to take a Wisconsin woman’s kids, and reported the Stranahans to multiple agencies, “for the children.”

  15. The accusers and the accused all seem crazy. What’s really interesting though is that you think I’m crazy in making such an observation. It takes one to mistake one.

  16. I do: cultivate good manners. He tried to help, it didn’t pan out. That doesn’t merit rudeness on your part. Also, see Frankie’s comment.

  28. Dearie me, Anamika, your trolling skills have atrophied from lack of use. You used to be much smoother with the “deliberately obtuse” tactic often favored by concern trolls.

    What happened? Too many off-line activities with pedophiles?

  31. Also, see Frankie’s comment.

    That’s truly a brilliant suggestion. How did I miss it??
    ***

    I’m 99% sure its a typo. Prove me wrong.

  34. This is what i find so comical about this place …the folks here who harp so much on how other’s react …who are so quick to point out other’s shortcomings …conveniently overlook their own triggers being pulled.

  37. I wish we’d change copyright law to make it so each person owns the copyright to all of their personal information by fact of existence.

    See, then you can post my personal data all you want, and I can bill you the going rate ($500.00 per byte per day). If you don’t pay me, you get a lien. Eventually you get evicted from your domain.

    Easy as cake.

  39. This is why you don’t DOX people. Because it’s illegal. No matter what a certain rotund individual who changes his twitter account every week, says…just because information can be found through public sources, doesn’t mean it’s ok to publish it.

    Publishing private (although publicly available) information for the sole purpose of harassing, intimidating, annoying or frightening an individual is illegal. And that is almost always the purpose of DOXing. Which is one of the reasons BullyVille is now suing Neal, Lane and Retzlaff.

    A certain rotund individual might want to consider how many times he might have violated the law in this regard.

  45. Well, he had me up to the part where he mentions Obama. Then I’m like…yeah right. Obama is totally out of your league.

  47. We can’t never foresee the consequences of our acts. Any act, any word uttered by anyone, slides down time like a pebble down a mountainside dislodging other pebbles, then rocks, then boulders. Your small act, or words, with time, will become an avalanche. A landslide does good and bad in an unpredictable way.

    So, how can you predict the net outcome for best, or worse. And how can you be sure that you triggered the avalanche? Maybe, you are just another pebble pushed, bumped, caught in the rush, carried by the momentum of the fall, just imagining the whole thing was your virtue or your fault.

  48. So this means that possibly someone might find out where Mr. Rauhauser is physically located so that they can serve him with a summons?

    Oh goody.

    He’s been one of the missing pawns in this game for far too long.

    All the, all the, all the outs in free.

    Well maybe not free for long for Neal.

    I would guess that there would be a line queued up to serve him with papers: writs and subpoenas and injunctions and warrants and suits and garnishments. OH MY.

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