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"Cyber Ninjas is broke, cant pay their lawyers, has no staff left to comply with document requests, had had its CEO resign, and was just slapped with $50K PER DAY fines for contempt. "Scam after scam after scam.
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NewHendoLib
(60,014 posts)Cyber buffoons
their debt isn't un-dischargable like folks with student loans.
Budi
(15,325 posts)The list affecting all walks of life is a long one.
ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)If I remember my agency law correctly, executive level staff can be held personally responsible for sanctions against the company for illegal acts.
I dont think bankruptcy negates the collection of fines without discharge.
I hope I remember that right & it drives this idiot into Chapter 13.
modrepub
(3,495 posts)if he (executive) goes into Chapter 13, they still discharge their debt. Not that I support debtors prisons. People with school loans aren't allowed to do that as far as I know.
ProfessorGAC
(65,042 posts)This grifter started his fake, pissant company as a get rick quick thing.
If he is anything but rich, he lost.
And, I still don't think BKO forgives fines. So I believe he'd still be on the hook for that C13 or no C13.
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)Everything needs to be seized by the court.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Everything Trump touches dies.
The cyber ninjas got scammed!
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)Seems like now there should be recourse to the person who set them on their path into audits.
If they broke any laws, who asked them to do that?
Budi
(15,325 posts)Its just dumb.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The company, called Cyber Ninjas, will lead a team that includes three other firms as part of the $150,000 contract the Senate has awarded to conduct an unprecedented audit of the county's election results.
But a deleted Twitter account that appears to belong to Cyber Ninjas founder Doug Logan suggests he has already made up his mind about the security of Arizona's elections. It includes a litany of unsubstantiated allegations about fraud in the last election.
"Im tired of hearing people say there was no fraud. It happened, its real, and people better get wise fast," said one post he shared from another Twitter user around the end of 2020.
It's obviously a well-organized and highly trained group of professionals, right? After all, they're called ninjas, and you can't just do that out of the blue! Or can you . . .? This CNN article is from June 2021:
His cybersecurity firm is working on the Arizona 'audit'. But people who know him have questions
Though the Florida-based cybersecurity firm has existed in some form since at least 2014, before last November's election, it hadn't done election auditing, nor been in the public eye.
But then, there hasn't been much of it to be in the public eye. Cyber Ninjas exists mostly in virtual reality, with its chief executive, Doug Logan, also serving as, well, pretty much everything.
On recent calls to the company's automated answer line, pressing "3" for sales led to the answering message for Logan. So did pressing "4" for human resources. And pressing "5" for purchasing. And "6" for the general mailbox. Go to the address for Cyber Ninjas' Legal Department, listed on its audit contract with the Arizona Senate, and you'll wind up at a rented mailbox in a UPS Store in Sarasota, Florida. The company's business address registered with Florida's Secretary of State, also in Sarasota, was sold last December, and now sits empty.
Republicans specialize in rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending. Some single mom with two kids gets an extra $7 on her SNAP card, and the Republicans are manning the barricades! What if she buys an extra box of cereal?! But they don't bat an eye when they squander hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a total scam to find out that the Big Lie is . . . a big, big, fake, fake lie!
They Might Be Giants!
Initech
(100,075 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,806 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)Did they grift the name from a Video Game? In their hurry to put the thing together?
Probably Don jr or Bannon 🙄
ABOUT THE GAME
In Cyber-Shadow, the world has been taken over by synthetic lifeforms. A desperate plea for help sets Shadow on a journey to uncover what started the path to perpetual ruin. Slash through the techno hordes, leap past traps, and nimbly navigate the ruins of Mekacity.
Only you can unlock the secrets to your clans ancient powers in Cyber Shadow, the quintessential Ninja Action game.
https://www.yachtclubgames.com/games/cyber-shadow
Ohio Joe
(21,756 posts)The marks won't even wonder what happened to all the money.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Wonder who moved the PAC money before they closed the doors.
Talitha
(6,589 posts)I always thought it was a stupid, stupid name.
Budi
(15,325 posts)Brilliant dad!
"Only you can unlock the secrets to your clans ancient powers in Cyber Shadow, the quintessential Ninja Action game."
Well they got the Clan part right anyway.
How embarrassing..
Retrograde
(10,136 posts)t-shirts and spinning gizmos that were somehow supposed to detect, um, something, in the ballots to some other crackpots? They'll be lucky to get pennies on the dollar, but every little bit should help!
bluestarone
(16,940 posts)Always a fucking excuse,((DUMB one at that) It's time to FOLLOW the names and MONEY! Everyone involved needs to be CHARGED with a crime. (IF discovered)
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)If they have no employees, does the sanction just end the company? Are the previous employees, or company officers liable for the fines?
Where does the ownership of the request documents fall?
Budi
(15,325 posts)I'm nowhere qualified on this.
But I'd like to dig deeper here too.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,425 posts)leadership that hired those ASSHATS.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Hekate
(90,686 posts)lark
(23,099 posts)They need to be behind bars! Bonus - besides simple justice, It will be great ammo for Dems as well!
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)History will look back and say, 'it was just a matter of time'.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,844 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)There are no records to submit because they erased them, or burned them, or they never existed because the stooges never wrote them or recorded them. What ever they thought they were doing, whatever they actually did, it was never meant to be examined closely in court or anywhere else. That is why no one will ever see them, or Logan, or any of the millions raised to pay for it.
The people who began this, who hide in the shadows and manipulate events and perceptions towards creating an America that is in their warped image of a Christian Nationalist State are getting away with it again. No-one is accusing them of treason or fraud, or theft.
We need to arrest those oligarchs and disclose all the nasty things they have done to engineer a violently divided electorate. I can think of some other things we ought to do with them but this is not that kind of forum and I don't want it to become one.
Budi
(15,325 posts)It was all a movie script where the public got to pick a role & act it out in the big cyber theatre.
As the money flowed up & out.
Ford_Prefect
(7,897 posts)Eugene
(61,894 posts)Cyber Ninjas founder Doug Logan told Republican Senate President Karen Fann in text messages that he was unable to sell the firm because of too much negativity around the name, but he plans to sell off all its assets to pay debts and eventually file for bankruptcy. His lawyer says Logan cant fulfil a court order to release public records because the company has no money, even though Trump allies raised millions of dollars for the unprecedented partisan election review.
https://apnews.com/article/business-elections-arizona-donald-trump-phoenix-d8b3cacba3871121dbaff0f14824fcb4
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)It works for some people we know.