Stop The Chamber And VR Filed Bar Complaint Against U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Lawyers For Participating In Dirty Tricks Spying Plot Against Us Complaint Ties Leaked Emails To A Dozen Criminal Violations And Intentional Torts Yesterday, we filed a lengthy bar complaint with the Board of Professional Responsibility in Washington D.C. against Hunton & Williams attorneys Richard Wyatt, John Woods and Robert Quackenboss for their participation in a dirty tricks campaign against us. The complaint can be viewed here. Two weeks ago, 71,000 emails created by investigators working for Hunton & Williams were leaked by the hacktivist network Anonymous. They showed that the lawyers, on behalf of their clients, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Bank of America, solicited and conspired with the investigators to engage in a long list of criminal conduct and intentional torts against reporters, NGOs and Unions, including us. This has been reported widely in the national press, including the Washington Post, and by VR co-founder Brad Friedman who was a named target. “The Chamber lawyers were negotiating a $12 million campaign to discredit us because we are being successful in our campaign exposing the Chamber,” said our attorney Kevin Zeese who filed the complaints. “It is astounding that prominent lawyers from Hunton & Williams would conspire and solicit in writing to commit such nefarious activity against us. Our complaint shows that these lawyers were willing to cross ethical boundaries to stop us from engaging in protected First Amendment activity. The emails show that they would stop at nothing to keep us from exposing questionable activities of the US Chamber of Commerce. Our complaint lays bare for all to see just how egregiously the lawyers violated the Rules of Professional Conduct on behalf of a wealthy corporate client. Not only will this complaint now be reviewed in various legal and law enforcement forums, but average citizens will get to see how far the Chamber will go to maintain its grip on power.” The complaint quotes from dozens of leaked emails and documents showing that the lawyers actively conspired with the investigators to engage in “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation,” through the use of “false documents,” “fake personas,” “false information,” and “attacks” to “discredit” NGOs, unions and reporters, including us. The complaint, by cross referencing these emails with criminal statutes listed by the Department of Justice in its manual on “Prosecuting Computer Crimes,” demonstrates that the lawyers “solicited, conspired with and counseled three of its investigative private security firms to engage in domestic spying, fraud, forgery, extortion, cyber stalking, defamation, harassment, destruction of property, spear phishing, destruction of property, identity theft, computer scraping, cyber attacks, interference with business, civil rights violations, harassment, and theft.”