Vaz Files Defamation Suit Against Rowe

[Tuff Gong]

Vaz Files Defamation Suit Against Rowe

United States-based Jamaican law professor David Rowe has been slapped with a defamation suit in connection with a series of emails making allegations against several prominent Jamaicans.

The lawsuit was filed in a Circuit Court in Florida last week by Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Daryl Vaz.

[RichD]

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not unexpected.

mi did tell the person who sen it to me that this would come.

[RichD]

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si the original thread here


http://www.jamaicans.com/forums/ubbthrea...960#Post1287960

[RichD]

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United States-based Jamaican law professor David Rowe has been slapped with a defamation suit in connection with a series of emails making allegations against several prominent Jamaicans.

The lawsuit was filed in a Circuit Court in Florida last week by Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Daryl Vaz.

But lawyers representing Rowe have filed a motion urging the court to throw out the case.

Rowe's attorneys have also signalled that they would be prepared to settle the matter through mediation.

According to attorneys representing Vaz, their client was defamed through email transmissions sent by Rowe hiding behind pseudonyms.

The emails, which contain damning allegations against senior members of the local political and business communities, have led to scores of people trying to distance themselves and issuing responses, urging the sender not to send them any more.

Documents allegedly fabricated

This has prompted Vaz's attorneys to claim that Rowe <span style="font-weight: bold">&quot;fabricated and published a document, which purported to be an official US law enforcement memo ... which made direct accusations of bribery, money laundering, corruption and close affiliations with a notorious convicted drug lord&quot;.</span>

The attorneys representing Vaz also argue that the allegations are &quot;false, defamatory and unconscionable&quot;.

They have asked the court to find that Rowe &quot;has engaged in a vicious smear campaign to defame reputable prominent Jamaican officials and businessmen&quot;.

&quot;Defendant Rowe, a lawyer, has often and unjustly targeted members of the Jamaica Labour Party with whom his political interests are not aligned,&quot; the lawsuit claims.

&quot;While defendant Rowe has a long history of attacking the Jamaican Government, he has now crossed all boundaries of permissible conduct by sending a fictional government document to individual members of the general public through anonymous email correspondence,&quot; added the attorneys representing Vaz.

On Tuesday, attorney-at-law David Brown, who is representing Rowe, told The Gleaner that his client has been served with the lawsuit and has filed a motion urging the court to dismiss it.

According to Brown, Rowe has no malice towards Vaz and would prefer to resolve the matter amicably through the mediation process.

Brown told The Gleaner that the emails in question were sent to Rowe from the US Homeland Security and were not originated by him.

&quot;Professor Rowe has been a commentator on several issues in Jamaica and we need to put politics aside and recognise that he can bring something that could transform the Jamaican society,&quot; Brown told The Gleaner.

Motion filed for dismissal

In documents filed in court yesterday, Brown argued that the complaint should be dismissed with prejudice.

&quot;Plaintiff (Vaz) fails to state a cause of action on which relief may be granted, fails to establish subject matter jurisdiction and fails to incorporate or attach to the pleading document(s) upon which action may be brought ... ,&quot; stated the motion to dismiss.

&quot;Plaintiff's claim of defamation per se is baseless and simply a red herring in an effort to silence the defendant and prevent the defendant's effective commentaries and advocacy.&quot;

Brown further argued that, as Rowe was not the author of the documents, the Florida-based court has no jurisdiction in the matter.

Rowe was one of the witnesses called to testify in the dual-citizenship case against Vaz in 2009 which resulted in the West Portland MP losing the seat he had won in the 2007 general election.

Vaz subsequently increased his majority in a by-election.

[evanovitch]

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&quot;Professor Rowe has been a commentator on several issues in Jamaica and we need to put politics aside and recognise that he can bring something that could transform the Jamaican society,&quot; Brown told The Gleaner.


Dis is di statement weh ketch mi yeye....is a lucky tin mi neva a drink or nyam or mi wudda did choke....

[evanovitch]

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Dis also mek mi tink of Dudus lawyer dem claim dat di orange party colluded wid US law enforcement to get di greens smeared....

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">si the original thread here


http://www.jamaicans.com/forums/ubbthrea...960#Post1287960 </div></div>

I thought the Vaz eMail was a different one?
This article seems to be more in line with the link you are referring to.....is it?

<span style="font-weight: bold">PEPPER POT: Tourism hate-mailer unmasked</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">BY EVA-JEAN
Friday, April 20, 2012</span>

O what a tangled web we weave when we do set out to deceive. The tourism official who should be promoting the industry is busy teaming up with the hate-mail people who would rather destroy the industry and brand Jamaica, just to squeeze out some measure of vengeance. Word is that he has been unmasked and the axe is poised to fall.
Curious and 'curiouser'...

The curious letter of the day berating the successful businessmen is said to have the unmistakeable imprimatur of the one who fell out of grace and got the boot.

[RichD]

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si one passage here:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Stewart is also known to be the main financial base for Daryl Vaz, who enjoyed a meteoric political rise under Bruce Golding. Stewart used his newspaper to promote Vaz and his money to secure the strategic positioning of his godson. Vaz is a close confederate of international drug Kingpin Christopher Coke.</div></div>

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">si one passage here:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Stewart is also known to be the main financial base for Daryl Vaz, who enjoyed a meteoric political rise under Bruce Golding. Stewart used his newspaper to promote Vaz and his money to secure the strategic positioning of his godson. Vaz is a close confederate of international drug Kingpin Christopher Coke.</div></div> </div></div>

OK.....!
LOL I bet now that Butch switch again.....the sender eating crow?
Anyway if its truly David he is loon. Can't believe that Ira Rowe's son is such an idiot.

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
OK.....!
LOL I bet now that Butch switch again.....the sender eating crow?
Anyway if its truly David he is loon. Can't believe that Ira Rowe's son is such an idiot. </div></div>

him cover that too

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The ultimate survivor (and three-card man), it is no surprise that after his very nasty and sustained campaign against the PNP in his newspaper, Stewart was perhaps the very first person to congratulate Portia Simpson Miller and her party on their December 29, 2011 election victory. He also made sure to back Simpson-Miller on the size of her cabinet when most commentators were criticizing her. Within the very first month following that victory, too, Stewart even has the new Prime Minister breaking ground on January 18, 2012, for the construction of buildings to house the showrooms of his auto dealership, Autohaus on Oxford Road. Stewart is considered by many to be worse than both Allen Stanford and David Smith his close friends and convicted Federal targets.</div></div>

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
OK.....!
LOL I bet now that Butch switch again.....the sender eating crow?
Anyway if its truly David he is loon. Can't believe that Ira Rowe's son is such an idiot. </div></div>

him cover that too

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The ultimate survivor (and three-card man), it is no surprise that after his very nasty and sustained campaign against the PNP in his newspaper, Stewart was perhaps the very first person to congratulate Portia Simpson Miller and her party on their December 29, 2011 election victory. He also made sure to back Simpson-Miller on the size of her cabinet when most commentators were criticizing her. Within the very first month following that victory, too, Stewart even has the new Prime Minister breaking ground on January 18, 2012, for the construction of buildings to house the showrooms of his auto dealership, Autohaus on Oxford Road. Stewart is considered by many to be worse than both Allen Stanford and David Smith his close friends and convicted Federal targets.</div></div> </div></div>

LOL.....you deh pon top of it.......
David is real clown!

Why im neva seh Carlos Hill?

[RichD]

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whoever wrote it makes some very serious allegations:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Stewart bribed the Jamaica Fraud Squad .</div></div>

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">whoever wrote it makes some very serious allegations:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Stewart bribed the Jamaica Fraud Squad .</div></div> </div></div>

That some serious stuff..
<span style="font-style: italic">(if this is David)</span> I think he is mad because he lost his money with Cash Minus....noticed hi left out Carlos Hill name in the Ponzi Kings?

[RichD]

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maybe he still hoping he will recoup from hill

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">maybe he still hoping he will recoup from hill </div></div>
I think both of them might be sharing a cell ....inna mad-ouse, jail or both, sometime in the future.