against Ganieva, Harris, Rubenstein, and Wigdor LLP, the firm representing Ganieva, claiming they had “orchestrated a conspiracy and enterprise” with the others to “take [him] down.”
But Black’s claims “did not come close to knitting [the three] together in any solid or coherent way… let alone in a manner qualifying as a RICO predicate,” Engelmayer wrote last year.Josh Harris speaks at the 2017 Milken Institute Global Conference.Engelmayer’s decision was affirmed on Thursday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, with prejudice. That is, Black’s case is now permanently dismissed.
“The truth is that I have been extorted by Ms. Ganieva for many years and I made substantial monetary payments to her, based on her threats to go public concerning our relationship, in an attempt to spare my family from public embarrassment,” Black said in a statement at the time.by another woman, Cheri Pierson, who said the private equity mogul raped her so brutally, she had difficulty urinating for weeks afterward.
Black had argued that Ganieva conspired with his Apollo Global Management co-founder and Apollo PR rep to destroy his personal and professional reputation. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer called that claim, “nebulous and overtly conjectural.'
Law Law Latest News, Law Law Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: nypost - 🏆 91. / 67 Read more »