Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Arguments By Racketeer Bill Sizemore
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Circuit Court Judge Joseph Guimond has thrown out arguments filed by Racketeer Bill Sizemore in a lawsuit against Our Oregon, Defend Oregon, and others stemming from the 2008 ballot measure campaign.
Sizemore filed the multi-million dollar lawsuit in late 2008, upset that his opponents pointed out his troubling history of fraud, forgery, and racketeering.
The court has now thrown out Sizemore’s arguments. In his opinion, the judge wrote:
The court finds that it could be reasonably inferred that Bill Sizemore was a "convicted racketeer" as he was the executive director of political action committees that were found liable for fraud, forgery, and racketeering.
In other words, when you act like a convicted racketeer and run an organization that gets busted for racketeering, don’t be surprised when people start calling you a convicted racketeer.
The case still has some technical steps to go through before it’s dismissed entirely, but this opinion effectively means that Sizemore no longer has any arguments or evidence to support his suit. In short, Sizemore no longer has a case.
Our Oregon Executive Director Patrick Green applauded the court’s dismissal of the suit.
“We worked hard to put an end to Bill Sizemore’s abuse of the political system,” Green said. “Now we’re glad to see that the court has put an end to Sizemore’s abuse of the legal system as well.”
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Either an individual is convicted or not. What happened to innocent till
proven guilty? Sounding like Jean Valjean in Les Miserable where having
done something wrong once condemns you forever. Not fair. I don't
think you can "infer" a conviction. He has constitutional rights, even if
you don't like his politics.
His organization was convicted, and Bill was involved in every aspect of those day to day operations. The confusion lies in the fact that this conviction was in a civil court, not a criminal court. Unlike Jean, Bill is entirely unrepentant about his past sins. He has no remorse, and fully intends to continue his actions that brought the convictions in whatever way he is able. He has said so himself many times. He believes he is the victim, not the perp.
His group was innocent until proven guilty. Then they were proven guilty. Convicted in a court of law. I don't think there's anything wrong about concluding that he was the head of an organization found guilty of criminal behavior when they were, in fact, convicted on those grounds. The notion that it's an inference is sarcasm. Please re-read it if you don't get the joke.
I wonder who Loren Parks is going to recruit as a shill for his corporatist campaign against day-to-day human persons who work for wages/salaries in Oregon since Bill Sizemore is now a persona non grata?