$120 Million Federal Lawsuit Says 2 Top NYC Law Firms are "Hired Guns"

In a federal lawsuit filed in Manhattan on Wednesday, January 26, 2011, plaintiff Kris Sergentakis claims "hired guns" at Skadden Arps and Holland & Knight sough to violate his U.S. Constitutional Rights by 'bullying' the website host providers into shutting down his websites. The lawsuit, Case # 11-0542, filed in the District Court for the Southern District of New York raises various troubling issues. Sergentakis' allegations include:

• "... Defendant WALTER apparently became upset over Plaintiff’s communication via his www.LeukemiaScandal.Com website over the Internet of a known fact that Defendant John Walter had admitted to Plaintiff in Defendant Walter’s office in 2003 that he (John Walter) had been arrested for child molestation."

• "...Plaintiff began administering an internet website called www.LeukemiaScandal.Com - dealing with, among other things, the Plaintiff’s and public’s concern over non-profit organization related, unconscionable, improper, illegal and unethical activities by Defendants."

• "...Plaintiff had “inside” information, involving alleged widespread misuse of tens of millions of dollars of donated money to LLS, and alleged improper kickbacks to, and demanded by, John Walter from various vendors throughout the United States, wherein, in fact, one particular LLS chapter is alleged to have had a “special arrangement” with John Walter, wherein involved parties improperly and personally profited at the expense of donated monies meant to assist people with Leukemia and Lymphoma."

• "...Plaintiff’s www.LeukemiaScandal.Com website was suddenly and without warning attacked by paralyzing computer viruses."

• "...Defendants attempted to pressure a federal judge into violating Plaintiff’s Constitutional Rights. That SDNY federal judge specifically denied the Defendants’ illegal attempt to violate Plaintiff’s Constitution Rights. In fact, the letter sent to the federal judge, at the direction of the Defendants, was hidden from Plaintiff, but subsequently provided to him by a person close to Defendant Walter..."

• "...Plaintiff’s www.LeukemiaScandal.Com website was shut down by an improper complaint filed with the Yahoo Internet website hosting company by the Defendants, all while using the donated monies of LLS to: (a) advance such unconstitutional acts; and (b) to strong-arm such unconstitutional desires with the perceived strength and abusive power of two large Manhattan law firms, acting as “hired guns”."

• "...Defendants threatened the iPower hosting service forcing it to immediately remove, without notice or warning, the Plaintiff’s www.LeukemiaScandal.Com website, thereby denying him access to the Internet. The threats to iPower were improper and backed with hundreds of millions of dollars of donated LLS monies and the chilling pressure of a large law firm promising years of litigation."

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL COMPLAINT: Sergentakis v. The Leukemia & Lymphomas Society, Inc., John Ehler Walter, a/k/a "John Walter, et al.