Shawn Lucas Cause of Death Still Unknown as Clinton’s Campaign Lawyer Tries to Move DNC Lawsuit into the Weeds

Shawn Lucas Cause of Death Still Unknown as Clinton’s Campaign Lawyer Tries to Move DNC Lawsuit into the Weeds

It has now been more than three weeks since Lucas died with no cause of death announced. We asked the Chief Medical Examiner’s office if the delay was a result of toxicology tests being conducted. We were told it can make no comment beyond the fact that the cause of death is “pending.”

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At the time the lawsuit was filed, the attorneys for the Sanders’ plaintiffs already had significant evidence that the DNC and Wasserman Schultz had put their fingers on the scale to tip the primary results in favor of Hillary Clinton while overtly undermining the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders. (The DNC is prohibited from unfair treatment of Democratic primary candidates under its own bylaws.)

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“Among the documents released by Guccifer 2.0 on June 15th is a two-page Microsoft Word file with a ‘Confidential’ watermark that appears to be a memorandum written to the Democratic National Committee regarding ‘2016 GOP presidential candidates’ and dated May 26, 2015. A true and correct copy of this document (hereinafter, ‘DNC Memo’) is attached as Exhibit 1. The DNC Memo presents, ‘a suggested strategy for positioning and public messaging around the 2016 Republican presidential field.’ It states that, ‘Our goals in the coming months will be to frame the Republican field and the eventual nominee early and to provide a contrast between the GOP field and HRC.’ [HRC is Hillary Rodham Clinton.]

“The DNC Memo also advises that the DNC, ‘[u]se specific hits to muddy the waters around ethics, transparency and campaign finance attacks on HRC.’ In order to ‘muddy the waters’ around Clinton’s perceived vulnerabilities, the DNC Memo suggests ‘several different methods’ of attack including: (a) ‘[w]orking through the DNC’ to ‘utilize reporters’ and create stories in the media ‘with no fingerprints’; (b) ‘prep[ping]’ reporters for interviews with GOP candidates and having off-the-record conversations with them; (c) making use of social media attacks; and (d) using the DNC to ‘insert our messaging’ into Republican-favorable press.”

The lawsuit (Wilding et al v DNC Services Corporation and Deborah ‘Debbie’ Wasserman Schultz) was filed in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida. The Case Number is 16-cv-61511-WJZ. The complaint makes the following charges: fraud, negligent misrepresentation, deceptive conduct, unjust enrichment, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligence.

Lucas is now a focal point in the legal proceeding with Marc Elias and his legal team from Perkins Coie asking to have the case dismissed on the basis that Lucas didn’t properly serve the lawsuit. Perkins Coie is not saying that the DNC never got the lawsuit. Instead, it is filing copious legal papers that quibble in a Federal Court funded by the U.S. taxpayer over whether the woman who accepted the lawsuit was authorized to receive it on behalf of the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.***

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This really DOES need to be read by everyone. There is so much information here on this lawsuit, the condition of Lucas at the time, what all is in the lawsuit, and what Dem Party bigwigs have used this law firm before. Sanders is being robbed yet again. How ironic since he's doing everything he can do to get her elected.

Which begs the question, why is he still suing?

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elenacarlena's picture

Were you one of the people who talked with the CME's office? If not, you need to clarify where you're quoting others and where you're writing as yourself. If so, nice journalism, seeking out interviews yourself.

If this lawsuit is led by Bernie, then good for him! Acquiescing to campaign for Hillary does not change the fact that he and we were harmed by the outcome of the primary. Nor the fact that the system needs to change to give challengers more of a chance in the future.

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If it was MY article, I'd have posted the whole thing.

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ThoughtfulVoter's picture

Bernie’s support for a candidate who is the antithesis of everything he stands for made a lot more sense to me when I realized that he’s in an abusive relationship. Not with Jane (I’m pretty sure she’s a living Buddha), but with the ruling elites of the Democratic party. And everyone’s making him out to be the weirdo.

She goes on later:

Bernie Sanders is in an abusive relationship with the Democratic party, and so are we. A party that rigs its own primaries to subvert its own candidates, just for serving the interests of the people instead of corporations and oligarchs, is an abuser, and is trying to hold us hostage. Exploiting us with corporate cronyism all these years and then gaslighting us into thinking we were silly for ever believing anything else might have been possible. Assaulting our nation’s democratic process and then trying to manipulate us into thinking it’s normal. Trying to tell us we’ll never get better, that this is all we deserve.

Well, we do deserve better. And as incredibly difficult as it is to leave an abusive relationship, we can absolutely do it. The first step is by pushing all the votes and enthusiasm we can behind Jill Stein, who represents everything our abuser fears, just like Bernie did. They’ll be upset, they’ll throw a fit, they’ll try to gaslight us into thinking we’re doing something wrong, but it’s the only way.

Bernie’s saying we need to support Hillary. The battered wife with the black eye says her husband is a great guy and her clumsy feet made her slip and fall down the stairs. We shouldn’t blame these people for the abusive situations they’re in, we should help them.

Let’s beat their abusers. They gave our Bernie a black eye. Let’s give them two.

Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3556885/bernie-sanders-is-in-an-abusive-relatio...

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This lawsuit is from his supporters, and this is the typical quibbling legal tactic we can expect throughout. If I recollect, he went to the DNC, asked for DES and told them why, and the women he served was sent out to respond to his request. That ought to make it their problem. Hope the judge refuses to indulge their whining.

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Centaurea's picture

This is what lawyers do during litigation. Think of it as defensive maneuvers during battle. Stall, delay, obfuscate, overwhelm, hobble, and try to outlast the enemy and wear them down. Make the enemy spend down their funds paying their own lawyers to counter these tactics. It doesn't mean there is any legal merit to the DNC's motions to dismiss, and it doesn't mean that either the DNC or their lawyers actually believe there is any merit.

The DNC has plenty of money with which to pay their lawyers to indulge in this kind of legal maneuvering, probably ad infinitum and ad nauseum.

Edited to add: And that's correct, Bernie himself is not involved in this lawsuit. It is a class action lawsuit brought by numerous people who donated to the Sanders campaign, on their own behalf and as representatives of all of the people who donated (the "class"). I believe there are some folks here at c99 who are among the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit.

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MsGrin's picture

DWS and that he wanted to hand it to her. He was told to wait. He eventually put it in someone's hands and left. They could have thrown it outside after him if they were claiming to not accept it. The guy is dead, but his video remains.

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MsGrin's picture

and to use block quoting for portions of other publications you include in your posts. It's very confusing to read your essays when there is inconsistent differentiation between your words and those of your source.

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'What we are left with is an agency mandated to ensure transparency and disclosure that is actually working to keep the public in the dark' - Ann M. Ravel, former FEC member

HoosierDeb's picture

HERE. The DNC tried to have it dismissed due to improper service. The court agreed, however, process was served a second time and that one stuck. The DNC is now arguing - get this - that we knew they were favoring Her Heinous, so it wasn't fraud. Riiiiiight..... A rebuttal that piece of nonsense was filed on Oct 4 and it's back in the court's hand now.

Fingers crossed!

[Edit to add: I am not a named client in this initial suit, however, I have submitted my evidence as a member of this class (Bernie donor via ActBlue). I believe they are still taking folks' info to be added to the list.]

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Amanda Matthews's picture

any active suits in the courts. I wondered though because I remember Sanders kept his suit going against the DNC and DWS after he got his access to his database information back. It was said then that he wasn't dismissing the suit and I think the reason was because they wanted information from the DNC as well as their access back. Do you know how that ever came out, when it was dismissed?

Again, thank you.

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HoosierDeb's picture

the DNC / NGP-VAN data breach one was settled a few months ago, iirc. The only other active one I know about is the RICO (racketeering) one started in Ohio. You can follow that suit at TrustVote.org. Lee Camp interviewed the attorney recently:

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edg's picture

It's been over 8 weeks since Shawn died, not 3. The article you're quoting is from August 26th and it's now October 9th. Even today, though, I can't find anything to indicate a cause of death was determined. Maybe they're waiting until after the election so that Hillary will have presidential immunity.

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