Sunbursts Holding Corporation and Alton Perkins have filed a multi-million dollar defamation suit against William J Verdult and Troy Verdult. The Corporation and Alton Perkins is represented by attorney, Joseph Ledford of Charlotte, NC in the multi-million dollar defamation suit.
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The suit in Charlotte Mecklenburg County, NC alleges and gives 20 specific instances of the Verdults slandering and libeling both the Corporation and Alton Perkins. The suit outlines a case of malicious slander and seeks an injunction, damages, special damages, and punitive damages against the Verdult’s.
The suit outlines how the Verdults voluntarily dismissed an earlier action in the Court in Mecklenburg County, NC and failed to pursue a follow-up remedy. The Verdults were well aware that their statements were false and libelous making the Verdults actions malicious defamation.
The suit further points out how the Verdults engaged in acts of defamation per se which means just making such allegations with no basis – is extreme defamation where harm does not have to be proven, the act alone proves harm.
The law suit outlines how the Verdults repeatedly made false oral and written statements and published theses statements on the Internet alleging criminal conduct and investigations by the FBI when the Verdults were well aware that no such action was taking place. The suit further asserts that the Verdults were attempting to harm the Corporation and Perkins at all cost using defamation over the Internet to achieve an objective which the Verdult’s were unable to achieve in a Court of law.
The suit shows how the Verdult’s were both malicious and negligent in each of the twenty instances of defamation, “the Defendants grossly failed to follow the most rudimentary elements of good journalistic practices and did not meet minimally acceptable standards to avoid being negligent.”
The suit shows how the Verdults even made false statements to other government agencies in California causing them to take unnecessary and damaging action against the Corporation and Perkins. Now the Plaintiffs have to spend unnecessary time and resources to correct the wrongs done by false statements.
The suit points out because of the Defendants (Verdults) egregious and malicious actions and the medium they have chosen, the Internet; they should be immediately enjoined from publishing further libel and slander and that damages, special damages, and punitive damages be awarded to the Corporation and Perkins in excess of $1.5 million.
The suit illustrates how Internet defamation is different than traditional written forms of defamation since online defamation, or “cyber libel”, is often taken at face value, and is capable of instantly reaching an unlimited number of persons around the globe.
Defamation based upon slander contained in a video published on the Internet which included the Verdults falsely claiming:
1. The “Collection was heisted by Alton Perkins using stock fraud and contractual deception.”
2. “The Corporation not in good standing with the Securities and Exchange Commission”
3. “He also issued over 11 million shares of fraudulent stock.”
4. “Alton Perkins has never paid my son for any of the paintings.”
5.” Alton Perkins making fraudulent reproductions.”
6. “Selling thousands of dollars in William Verdult fraudulent Stock which does not exist.”
7. “Artwork is fake, stock in my name is fake, reproductions are misappropriated”
8. “Allowed sales to break Federal art laws”
9. “This constitutes as Fraud, by Bid4assets along with Alton and Loretta Perkins are guilty.”
10. “Alton Perkins has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for real-estate fraud, and defrauding military officials.”
11. “He claims to be a high ranking military officer worked at Norad. Detectives told us differently they said he did not even pick potatoes in the army.”
Defamation based upon libel publishing written statements on a website on the Internet includes the Verdults falsely claiming:
12. “Please be advised of the both civil and criminal cases going on against Mr. Alton Perkins at this moment.”
13. “Public Video Statement by William Verdult on Google Video concerning Alton Perkins and his deceptive and fraudulent contract with issuance of fake shares of Public Stock.”
14. “Misappropriated artwork listed in this data base is currently being converted maliciously and fraudulently by a person name Alton Perkins doing business as mike @ verdultgallery.com, alswife, Wealth Enterprises, Blackstocks Development, Inc. Corp. and many more.".
15. “Please see News Alert & Stolen Art Section for more on Alton Perkins, the art & identity thief, real estate stock fraudster.”
16. The Defendants violated the Corporation’s copyright by publishing copyrighted images of the Corporation’s logos and next to them stating, “Stolen fine art misappropriated.” “Fraudulent websites.” “Beware do not buy Verdult artwork from Alton or Loretta Perkins posing as mike@verdult gallery.com.”
17. “August 2008 Desist & Refrain Order placed on stolen website by California Dept. of Secretary of State Securities Division.”
18. “"Alton Perkins plagiarism pieced together book given to the Verdult's by Perkins"
19. “Alton Perkins issues over nearly 10,000,000 shares of stock said to be worth $3,000,000 Ponzi Type Scheme set up by Perkins who will face criminal charges."
20. “These are stolen paintings trying to be sold on bid4assets.com they are considered stolen by the artist and hold no value until returned to rightful owner Troy W. Verdult.”
Damages as well as punitive damages have been requested and are expected to exceed $1.5 million.
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