Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and a harsh critic of former President Donald Trump, has helped pay for a lawsuit by the writer who sued Trump for rape and defamation. Story from the New York Times.
E. Jean Carroll arrives for a hearing in her lawsuit against former President Donald Trump at Manhattan Supreme Court in New York, March 4, 2020.
They asked for a one-month postponement so they could investigate the funding issue. The judge, Lewis A. Kaplan, on Thursday evening said he would allow Trump’s lawyers the opportunity to conduct a narrow inquiry into the funding issue, but he declined to delay the case.
Hoffman is a billionaire tech entrepreneur known for co-founding LinkedIn, which went public in 2011 and sold to Microsoft for $26 billion in 2016. He has a long history of funding Democratic candidates and causes, including those specifically designed to counteract Trump’s influence. He added that they had made an earlier grant through a nonprofit to support a different public interest lawsuit being handled by the firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink, which later took up Carroll’s case. He said that later, in September 2020, Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta A. Kaplan, asked if money from that grant could be used for Carroll’s suit.
Sebok added that there was nothing wrong, legally or ethically, with an outsider who has no connection to a plaintiff providing funding to a lawsuit after it is filed, “either to make money or just because they have a rooting interest in the outcome.”
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