In today's Internet World - Do you know what your online reputation is?
United States of America (Press Release) August 6, 2007 --
If you have ever been a victim of Internet Defamation you will know how I felt since 2002.
In 2000 when my daughter was abused in a teen help program (Carolina Springs Academy)I posted our true story online and within months were slapped with a Defamation Lawsuit by the very same organization that hurt my little girl!
They sued me in an attempt to silence me and would have dropped the lawsuit if I would remove my website. I fought back - after 2+ years of litigation - over $1 Million dollars in legal fees (covered by my insurance) I won in a jury trial!
WWASPS appealed and I won again in the Supreme Court of Appeals!
When you have exhausted your legal avenues to harass someone it seems the Internet can be used as a weapon,it is a powerful weapon.
Suddenly on some forums, ugly and slanderous lies were being posted about myself, my organization and my children!
It was soon realized that a woman, who originally despised WWASPS for the alleged abuse her boys endured at one of their programs - she had no problem accepting $12,500.00 from them! Why? In hopes of incriminating me!
I sued her in an attempt to get her to stop. I sued for defamation and invasion of privacy - and guess who got her a lawyer in Florida? WWASPS! Yes, the very people she accused of harming her kids as well as accepting the $12,500.00.
I am fighting WWASPS indirectly in my opinion - and for another 2 years of litigation - we go to trial again - and this time, I not only win - I set legal precedence for Internet Defamation! The jury - after hours of deliberation, render a verdict of $11.3M - $5M of it is punitive damages. After the trial, they waited for me in the hall and said they wanted to send a message that ruining lives on the Internet has a price.
Carey Bock, the defendant that defamed me, authored many posts claiming I was a fraud, con, crook and more.
I won 2 trials - emotionally exhausted from 5 years of litigation, I still had to deal with all the ugly posts on the Internet.
A friend of mine told me about Reputation Defender. At first I was skeptical and didn't think it could work.
The CEO, Michael Fertik called me personally within a weeks time and told me that they did some research on the damage and was appalled what these people had done to me. I proved my case to Michael Fertik - has helped literally thousands of families - and we have proudly been a Member of the Better Business Bureau for years.
Could he help me? He said he could, but it would take time - well, since I had no choice, I needed my online reputation cleaned up to match my true reputation. I worked long & hard to bring my organization to the level of respect we get from professionals.
Reputation Defender got to work and within 4 months, with the help of MyEdge, my online life was finally matching up with reality!
I hired Reputation Defender and MyEdge it was not to hide the ugliness but to let people know the real me and the truth about me!
In 2000 when my daughter was abused in a teen help program (Carolina Springs Academy)I posted our true story online and within months were slapped with a Defamation Lawsuit by the very same organization that hurt my little girl!
They sued me in an attempt to silence me and would have dropped the lawsuit if I would remove my website. I fought back - after 2+ years of litigation - over $1 Million dollars in legal fees (covered by my insurance) I won in a jury trial!
WWASPS appealed and I won again in the Supreme Court of Appeals!
When you have exhausted your legal avenues to harass someone it seems the Internet can be used as a weapon,it is a powerful weapon.
Suddenly on some forums, ugly and slanderous lies were being posted about myself, my organization and my children!
It was soon realized that a woman, who originally despised WWASPS for the alleged abuse her boys endured at one of their programs - she had no problem accepting $12,500.00 from them! Why? In hopes of incriminating me!
I sued her in an attempt to get her to stop. I sued for defamation and invasion of privacy - and guess who got her a lawyer in Florida? WWASPS! Yes, the very people she accused of harming her kids as well as accepting the $12,500.00.
I am fighting WWASPS indirectly in my opinion - and for another 2 years of litigation - we go to trial again - and this time, I not only win - I set legal precedence for Internet Defamation! The jury - after hours of deliberation, render a verdict of $11.3M - $5M of it is punitive damages. After the trial, they waited for me in the hall and said they wanted to send a message that ruining lives on the Internet has a price.
Carey Bock, the defendant that defamed me, authored many posts claiming I was a fraud, con, crook and more.
I won 2 trials - emotionally exhausted from 5 years of litigation, I still had to deal with all the ugly posts on the Internet.
A friend of mine told me about Reputation Defender. At first I was skeptical and didn't think it could work.
The CEO, Michael Fertik called me personally within a weeks time and told me that they did some research on the damage and was appalled what these people had done to me. I proved my case to Michael Fertik - has helped literally thousands of families - and we have proudly been a Member of the Better Business Bureau for years.
Could he help me? He said he could, but it would take time - well, since I had no choice, I needed my online reputation cleaned up to match my true reputation. I worked long & hard to bring my organization to the level of respect we get from professionals.
Reputation Defender got to work and within 4 months, with the help of MyEdge, my online life was finally matching up with reality!
I hired Reputation Defender and MyEdge it was not to hide the ugliness but to let people know the real me and the truth about me!
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