First, there was the 37-page Robert David Steele federal defamation lawsuit against Jason Goodman, et. al., filed on September 1, 2017, in the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division. Then came the 97-page Amended Complaint on April 18, 2018, followed by the 57-page Second Amended Complaint on September 24, 2020.
After 3 years and 24 days, on September 25, 2020, United States District Judge M. Hannah Lauck put an end to this lawfare/counter lawfare scavenger hunt, and dismissed this lawsuit without prejudice. That left the door open for a refiling, which Plaintiff Robert David Steele and his tag-along nonprofit corporation, Earth Intelligence Network, promptly did on September 28, 2020, in the Alexandria, Virginia, federal court.
Although I have always given the off the wall political reformer Robert David Steele the upper edge in this reputation war with You Tube provocateur Jason Goodman, at this late stage of their gaming each other, I am fed up with their waste of the taxpayer’s monies which are funding the judiciary. This federal civil court dispute could have been settled in 20 minutes in Judge Judy’s small claims court, if only Robert David Steele had understood his reputation’s true value.
In what Judicial Twilight Zone did Steele think that his 2017 reputation was worth at minimum $18,350,000, plus a prejudgment interest on the principal sum awarded by a jury at the rate of 6% per year? Are federal civil lawsuits the latest fad in retirement investment schemes?
On March 21, 2018, Tracking the Leopard Meroz published an article called, And in this corner, A Man called SUE contending against Leviathan, Behemoth and God Almighty! in which I quoted a conversation between Robert David Steele and Benjamin Fulford.
Benjamin Fulford said, “Robert you know we’ve both been subject to hit jobs and smear tactics and when I looked at your Wikipedia, it said that you had said that there were child sex slaves on Mars and I hear that this is just a big fake attempt to discredit you. Could you tell us what was behind that? Why?”
Robert David Steele: “Well, I have a federal lawsuit out which I expect to win. I have an extraordinarily good defamation lawsuit, and so I’m not going to argue the details in public, but I will say that I was doing a two hour video with Alex Jones on pedophilia. I’m a commissioner as well as the chief counsel on a judicial inquiry into pedophilia (note: this so-called judicial inquiry does not appear to be officially commissioned, but rather some sort of private arrangement which RDS has referred to as an “International Tribunal for Natural Justice“.), and I believe that my two hours of remarks scared the living hell out of a particular murderous pedophile in the media business, and he commissioned a hit job by a guy in the Daily Beast. It will have to come out in a Federal lawsuit.”
Near the conclusion of this videotaped conversation, Robert David Steele said, “Well, let me tell you something. I’d like to introduce you to my lawyer who’s the best, one of the best defamation lawyers in the country, and he’s taught me a lot and one of the things he’s taught me, Ben, is that if you can show conspiracy, which is if you can show that certain select people egged other people on, guided them, funded them, whatever, conspiracy is triple damages. Now I don’t know what kind of statute of limitations you might be running up against, but please let me introduce you to my lawyer. Let him win cases for both of us.”
Benjamin Fulford: “It’s, it’s time you know these people have done enough with their lies and their slander.”
Robert David Steele: “Don’t talk about them in public, take them to court. Sue them, OK.”
In the refiled lawsuit against Jason Goodman, Robert David Steele has asked for $1,000,000 in compensatory damages, which he desires to multiply three-fold if he can show “conspiracy”, plus $350,000 in punitive damages. And of course there is the interest on the total damages awarded by a future jury, dating from June 15, 2017 to a judgment date, plus 6% on the post judgment balance until paid.
In reviewing the first lawsuit which was dismissed without prejudice, the question that begs to be asked is why did seasoned attorney Steven S. Biss, who Steele claimed had written “an extraordinarily good lawsuit” “which he expected to win”, have such a problem complying with Federal Rules of Civil Procedures? And why did Biss undermine the discovery process, when they were so close to going to trial?
The refiling of a lawsuit that had gone more than three years, without resulting in a trial, means that it all must begin again at Square One...file a complaint, serve the complaint on the defendant, perhaps argue about whether the case should be heard in Virginia or New York…argue about co-conspirators...I keep thinking about that interest rate on the “value” of Steele’s reputation that started in 2017, running into perpetuity…
What did Judge Lauck say in her July 2, 2020, Memorandum Opinion filed as Document 196? [see rds vs goodman doc 196 702 2020].
At that time, the Court admonished both pro se Defendant Jason Goodman and the Plaintiff’s attorney, Steven S. Biss.
But since Biss became the triggering mechanism that shut down the Richmond, Virginia, federal lawsuit, we must note one of the causes was stated on page 13, section B. as The Court Will Deny the Motion in Limine Because Counsel for Plaintiffs Has Again Failed to Engage in a Meaningful Discovery Process with Goodman.
[This in itself foretells doom for the second lawsuit, as Jason Goodman was recently pushed into a corner in an unrelated lawsuit into hiring an attorney to represent his corporation. The attorney he chose was once a high-wire and trapeze artist before getting his Harvard law degree, and he also owns a data mining company geared to legal discovery issues, according to SDNY.info.]
Then there is that fascinating comment that the Judge makes about the Plaintiff Robert David Steele in Footnote 10, saying,
The Order which resulted in dismissing this case, [RDS v Goodman Doc 217 925 2020], indicates that after two Show Cause Hearings, the Judge having warned both parties about “the many deficiencies that have occurred in this litigation”, and instituting a stay until after September 26, 2020; the filing by attorney Biss of a Second Amended complaint on September 24, 2020 became the last straw. That filing ignored the Court’s ruling as to TIMING, as well as the proviso that Plaintiff’s counsel provide short and plain statements to support their claims per Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8.
According to A Student’s Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures, Eleventh Edition, (2008), (which I found at the local library book sale for 10 cents), “Element 2: Short and Plain Statement of the Claim”, says that “litigants are generally required to satisfy only ‘notice’ pleading obligations: they must provide their opponent with fair notice of their claim and the grounds upon which that claim rests“.
Of course that pleading obligation presupposes that the Plaintiff properly identifies his defendants in the first place.
In the Robert David Steele lawsuit filed on September 1, 2017, the defendants were “Jason Goodman, Patricia A. Negron and Queen Tut, a woman believed to be known as Carla A. Howell.“
As we now know, Carla A. Howell was falsely accused by Steele of the defamatory actions of Susan A. Lutzke Holmes of Fort Collins, Colorado, who was using the anonymous moniker, Queen Tut on the Crowdsource the Truth show.
The August 31, 2017, emails shown below which are impossible to read in this blog format, reveal the hand picked researchers of Steele and Biss, who were assigned the mission of discovering the location of Carla Howell. And who were these Chosen Few? None other than those infamous Shadowboxers: Thomas Schoenberger, Beth Bogaerts aka Well Traveled Fox, and Defango.
I cannot recall ever seeing an apology by Robert David Steele for the rash allegations made against Ms. Howell, which impugned her character. For Steele to regard his own reputation as worth multi-millions, while trampling underfoot a woman’s reputation, when in truth she had done no wrong, is a curious way to begin a defamation lawsuit.
Will the boasting Jason Goodman show off his newly discovered legal high wire act in the refiled Steele vs. Goodman lawsuit?
As Jason Goodman awaits service for the Alexandria lawsuit, his Crowdsource the Truth YouTube channel has been fund raising on Patreon with special pay-to-view only videos of the defendant’s discussion of the first lawsuit. Apparently this includes a discussion of the Hearings transcripts which he has on hand, but are not yet accessible to the public on PACER.
To the right is a Crowdsource the Truth Twitter advertisement for one of Jason Goodman’s pay-to-view videos in which he claims he would be discussing Steele’s ASS or Anti-Speech Strategy.
As usual, Jason Goodman does not edify his viewers.
So, legally, what is reputation?
Robert C. Post (Yale Law School) wrote a paper in 1986, found at digitalcommons.law.yale, titled, The Social Foundations of Defamation Law: Reputation and the Constitution. In the Abstract of his thesis, he notes:
Reputation, however, is a mysterious thing. The common law, as a rule, has “not attempted to define reputation.” The dictionary describes it as the “common or general estimate of a person with respect to character or other qualities.” Reputation thus inheres in the social apprehension that we have of each other. In one sense, of course, virtually all of our social relationships consist of such apprehension, and it is not clear what it would mean for them all to be “protected” by defamation law.
But by looking carefully at the nature of the “injuries affecting a man’s reputation or good name” defamation law is actually designed to redress, one can uncover a more focused image of the exact kinds of social apprehension that defamation law considers “normal,” or “desirable,” or deserving of the law’s protection. In this sense defamation law presupposes an image of how people are tied together, or should be tied together, in a social setting. As this image varies, so will the nature of the reputation that the law of defamation seeks to protect.
What is the Reputation of Robert David Steele?
Robert David Steele displays an impressive and lengthy resume of his employment and accomplishments. But is that the whole of his reputation?
What about the viability of his opinions, which he desired to become the foundation for a revolutionary force, which would transform American government and Intelligence issues?
And his dubious associations with persons who eventually are indicted for one reason or another? For example, Steele has had a close association with Roger Stone, who was recently pardoned by Trump of his federal prison sentence, according to BusinessInsider.com‘s July 10, 2020, update of their 2017 article, Who is Roger Stone and why was his prison sentence commuted?
But who else wanted to pose with Steele’s “Dirty Tricks” friend?
Jason Goodman, Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi
And as noted in a Tracking the Leopard Meroz informational post dated October 6, 2020, on the John McAfee Indictment, McAfee was friends with Robert David Steele.
Jason Goodman’s co-host George Webb did an interview with Robert David Steele; but even after the Port of Charleston hoax incident, Steele desired to have Webb serve as his traveling publicist for his #UNRIG election reform campaign. Given all the fuss Steele made in his lawsuit about the hoax that shut down a major port, one has to wonder why Steele would provide excuses to cover over the act of the secondary cause (Webb) of the false report given to him by his hidden source, a former FBI informant who has a life-time history of lying.
Are Goodman and Steele merely acting as Thesis and Anti-thesis in order to create a desired end known as Synthesis? And what would that Synthesis look like?
Tracking the Leopard Meroz is assigning that critical analysis to no less than Secret Agent Lil Skill, who unlike Princeton educated attorney Biss, has mastered the art of writing “short and plain statements to support her claims” as per Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 8.
But we are concentrating on discussing the reputation of Steele, so let’s add a few more touches.
On September 16, 2018, I published THE OATH Above All Oaths of Robert David Steele, Chief Counsel for the International Tribunal for Natural Justice, with regard to his involvement with peculiar sovereign citizen legal theories, which have caused many untold grief. After he began his #UNRIG campaign, Robert David Steele cultivated a friendship with the You Tube channel Victurus Libertas, who also featured the fake Alaskan judge Anna Von Reitz and the product line of a former tax fraud.
In 2017, Robert David Steele published a detailed accounting of revenues and expenses for his #UNRIG election reform campaign, and he was very open with regard to his ideas. His nonprofit tax returns were available online, as well as his writings, and his former corporations were easily researched on the Virginia Secretary of State website. The point of contention in regard to Steele’s reputation centers around his ideas, and the fact that he wanted to make use of his attorney, Steven S. Biss, as the means for attacking what he defines as the Deep State. Some of this I discussed in 2017, after Steele published his controversial article on November 8, 2017, titled, #GoogleGestapo–Censorship & Crowd-Stalking Made Easy.
Virginia attorney Steven S. Biss’ reputation has taken a blow in the past three years, as for example, as seen in the charge that he engages in libel tourism, a concept explained in this article on the Devin Nunes lawsuit by the Public Citizen Litigation Group. [I will take a closer look at these issues in a future article.]
For the duration of this post, let’s concentrate on reviewing a 2017 audio of a phone call between Jason Goodman and Frank Bacon, which is referenced in both the Richmond and the Alexandria defamation lawsuits.
In the September 1, 2017, Complaint, on page 14-15, it stated, “On June 27, 2017, Goodman published a video on YouTube entitled, ‘FRANK BACON Call Regarding Robbing and Stealing #unrig’. As of September 1, 2017, the ‘FRANK BACON’ video was accessible by clicking the following link (link identified). At 2:38 of the video, Goodman states, “Let’s assume for a moment he’s a con man or a hypothetical situation in which he may be a con man, claiming to be an ex-CIA agent is sort of the perfect con.” At 10:21, Goodman admits that he personally contacted the Coast Guard and represented that he had ‘intelligence’ coupled with Government reports that a ‘dirty bomb’ was on board the Maersk Memphis, and he ‘instructed’ the Coast Guard to inspect the ship. At 19:25, Goodman calls Robert a ‘loser’.”
From a non-attorney’s point of view, (which Jason Goodman represents as a non-attorney pro se defendant), the quote at 2:38 appears to be taken out of context, the Maersk Memphis incident which became the point of no return in the short-lived relationship between the plaintiff and the defendant raises questions of coincidence or a deliberate setting up of these parties as adversaries, and finally, the comment at 19:25 is protected free speech as a statement of opinion, and would not seem to be legally defamatory.
So then on April 13, 2018, more than seven months into this lawsuit, the original complaint of 37 pages was expanded to 97 pages, as an Amended Complaint against defendants Jason Goodman, Patricia A. Negron and Susan A. Lutzke aka “Queen Tut”. [Although it was early recognized that a reckless error had been made in naming Carla A. Howell as Queen Tut, the plaintiff and his attorney Steven S. Biss, did not take steps to correct the record in the lawsuit, and it was the Judge who reacted to the legal implications of this error, when Biss attempted to serve Susan A. Lutzke, who had not been named in this lawsuit at that point of time.]
In viewing the statement on the Frank Bacon phone call, the Amended Complaint added the following accusation: “As part of the modus operandi of the conspiracy and the scheme to defame Plaintiff’s, Goodman and Negron employed caricatures to hide the identity of the speakers. The ‘FRANK BACON’ video features Goodman speaking with an anonymous person who is represented by the caricature of a hotdog and a strip of bacon:”. A 3-inch high image of Jason Goodman and a cartoon hotdog and bacon, shown as part of this Crowdsource the Truth video, was also added to the Amended Complaint.
Ahhh, a Scavenger Hunt Clue! Where will this lead us?
The day after the new lawsuit was refiled as Robert David Steele and Earth Intelligence Network vs. Jason Goodman in the Alexandria, Virginia federal court, the anonymous commenter, Lil Skill posted an interesting observation on her Twitter account:
Yep, a big Yikes, alright. I am glad Lil Skill brought up this touchy situation.
Lil Skill displayed item g. on page 12 of Document 1.[RDS v Goodman Doc 1 928 2020]. However, this particular statement continues onto page 13, showing the image and quotes which we had discussed earlier.
Lil Skill notes that documents filed in court are under oath. She wonders why the plaintiff Robert David Steele is treating the anonymous handle Frank Bacon as an unidentified person, when in fact Steele once had a close association with Frank Bacon, known in real life as Tyroan Simpson. The answer is that Steele wants to make an allegation that ignores the glaring facts; that, “As part of the modus operandi of the conspiracy and scheme to defame Plaintiff’s, Goodman employed memes and caricatures to hide the identity of the speakers. The “FRANK BACON” video features Goodman speaking with an anonymous person who is represented by the caricature of a hotdog and a strip of bacon:“. [the reason for this allegation will be tied in with the larger Steele/Biss agenda in a future article on anonymous internet commenters.]
Let’s take a closer view of the actual phone conversation:
FRANK BACON Call Regarding Robbing and Stealing #unrig. [This video is 33:54 minutes in length. I have transcribed the first 20 minutes. There is much over-talking in this phone conversation, so only the clear remarks are shown.]
Frank Bacon: Jason…
Jason Goodman: How are ya?
FB: I’m good man. How are you?
JB: I’m doing well.
FB: Man I, I’ve gotta tell ya something I, I..I’m, I don’t know much about ya, and I gotta uh apologize for all the shit that’s just happened cuz and I’m uh…you obviously you know my name, so you know I’m a real person. But I go by Frank..
JG: Oh, ok.
FB: … and my avatar, just like that King Tut woman you were just talking to, or whatever her thing was, that wasn’t her real name right? and there’s a lot of people
JG: well…
FB: that you’re connected, that you’re not using their real names
JG: Yeah, they don’t wanna reveal…
FB: Right, you’re gonna see that with me as I took on the uh, you know, the Frank Bacon moniker, but there’s a long story behind that, and I… I don’t wanna get into that I just wanted to get into the Robert David Steele stuff, Frank was the my impetus for getting all that going it’s uh it’s something Frank…Frank is my way of working with Robert, I’ve been I’ve been working for Robert for a number of years, writing for his blog and things like that and it didn’t go that, it didn’t go well
JG: What happened?
FB: and uh…well… I’m give you a little quick information about me, do you have time?
JG: Absolutely.
FB: Am I taking up too much of your time?
JG: No, no, I’d like to hear what you have to say.
FB: OK, excellent. I umm I’ve been following him for years, and uh been a big fan of his, I’m not, I’m not too much younger than you guys. I’m in my mid forties but this would’ve been late thirties. I was getting involved in politics and waking up and seeing all the problems of the world and I was you following you know Alex Jones and things like that Ya and um this was the only guy I really dug because he was into open source, open source everything.
JG: Yeah.
FB: and I’m, everybody in my circle, can’t stand him because he’s ex-CIA, so my circle groups of friends people say…
JG: Now lemme just stop you for a second how do we know that? How do we know that he’s ex-CIA ? What proof is there? What evidence is there of that?
FB: Well that’s a good point, you bring up a good point. Like have I gone through the rigmarole of, of verifying everything that he’s put out there, not necessarily, but I have done some research on to the point that I know he’s very well um, respected in the world as far as like… uh his writings. So, he was in Norway for example, he was giving a talk in Norway to the to the military in Norway. I would assume that they had done some of their due diligence as to whether or not this guy was just some some guy from Virginia.
JG: Maybe they just assumed that everybody else did their due diligence. I mean look people who’re in the CIA don’t go around really saying they’re in the CIA that much. And of course the CIA would never confirm or deny such a statement so I’m not saying he is or isn’t I’m just saying let’s assume for a moment, he’s a con-man or a hypothetical situation in which he may be a con-man. Claiming to be an ex-CIA agent is sort of the perfect con.
Tracking the Leopard Meroz: After looking at the online data on Steele back in 2017, it appeared that his resume was legitimate. However, Jason Goodman brings up a valid question, which is discussed in my September 6, 2020, article called “Two lawsuits that passed each other like ships in the night: One was a Criminal Indictment and the other a Civil Fraud Case: Both involved wire fraud and Black Ops Blarny” . That article compared elements of the criminal indictment of Wayne Shelby Simmons, who had falsely claimed he had worked for the CIA, with a civil lawsuit involving Thomas Schoenberger. Interestingly, Schoenberger has been close friends with Frank Bacon, and is connected with both Steele and Biss in a “research” capacity around 2017.
FB: You’re making a good point and you know what this is gonna get into a much better discussion I think with you because uhm, that’s kinda what Frank is. I’m, I’m making this very, very clear I, I uh I got very sick I was in a, I was in a research lab and I I um, worked on some stuff and I got you know sick from uh, a lot of things but uh…I essentially broke my back and so I was bedridden for a number of years this was like 2013, 2014, 2015…
JG: um hmm
FB: 2016… I started walking again and 2017 has been, I’ve been walking fine. I’ve been repairing my back and now I’m not in such pain induced psychosis anymore. So a lot of what I’ve done with Frank is it’s been over the last three years it’s kind of a way of like nursing myself back to health.
JG: Now wait, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, forgive me I, I understood that Frank was a name that you were using for yourself. Frank is… someone else?
FB: No, Frank is, is, is my work. But it’s a bigger work than just a uh an avatar I mean there’s a lot more to Frank than just what you and I are talking about
JG: I don’t think I understand..,
FB: there’s a lotta work I put into it
JG: is it an A.I. or…
FB: More, more, more like that, more like a marketing platform than a than a, like an A.I. (cough) there’s a lot to it and I’ll have to save that for another time ok cuz I think it’ll get us completely off course
JG: ok, ok
FB: and I don’t wanna make it like mysterious and weird I just wanna say hey look
JG: too late for that! (laughter)
FB: well ya, exactly but I respect the hell outta what you guys have been doing because it’s open source it’s working. you know what I mean like, it’s…. I don’t like people that have secrets, and Robert and I got very crossed at the very beginning with one another when I started working with him, which was over a year ago um. I finally got him on Skype and said hey, I love your work, I wanna help you get on Alex Jones.
I’m gonna do what I can for ya and I brought him over to Steemit last year right…uh, and it didn’t work out so uh you know he lost his key, and he doesn’t see the value in it, but I do. I’m kind of a psychic in that sense, I know what’s coming. I know what things are gonna, I know some things are gonna be happening, so, I also knew that I wasn’t gonna be working directly with him, but that I would be using that open source platform that open source everything mentality, that unrig,
JG: uh huh… yeah
FB: going after the deep state and all that um, so I run Phi Beta Iota; not his website but on Steemit, so I’m the at Phi Beta Iota.
JG: What does that mean, Phi Beta Iota?
FB: I don’t.. ya know I never actually looked it up. I never actually knew what.. it was just his blog that I would go to and he would post four good things a day, and then I started bugging him on email and he finally responded back, and he was like a hero of mine, I gotta be honest with ya I highly, highly admire what I’ve worked with and what I’ve seen of his ok…and here’s the other thing, I don’t know what he actually did to you guys what, what, what, went wrong cuz I don’t even know that part of the story do you mind sharing that?
JG: No, I don’t mind. I mean it’s all there in the live streams, I mean I might have taken out of the playlist or maybe unpublished I’ll put it back up because I want everybody to see it, I mean..we.. he.. I.. look I’ve seen him on InfoWars. I thought he was great. I had no issue with Robert David Steele and you know…
FB: He sent me a text one night; he’s like, hey you know cuz he knows I been buggin’ George I been trollin’ George around for a while, and it’s all in good, it’s not bad trolling, I bug him like I been buggin’ you like hey I wanna talk I wanna talk, right. and then we would talk and I talked to George a long time ago about hey we need to get on these open source platforms these blockchain platforms there’s this thing called Steemit. I can help you out and and he of course he’s been busy it’s not that he’s blowing me off or anything but then he starts texting me back recently and and uh
JG: who did? George?
FB: Robert!
JG: Right, right, right
FB: Robert’s like 40 minutes away from D.C. so I find out George is in D.C. and I’m like hey um I could get you Robert.
JG: Right.
FB: Because I was trying to get him in touch with somebody else I don’t even remember I’d have to go through my texts to find out and then I texted Robert, uh I didn’t text Robert he doesn’t let me text him (laughter). I said uh, I might be able to get you in touch with George Webb how would you like that, and he was VERY excited he was really uppity about it. He said yeah, I would love to. Please do whatever you can to get me get in touch, so I just gave George the number, said hey call him tell him Frank Bacon sent ya and… go from there.
JG: So that’s, that’s that’s what happened.
FB: That’s all I did.
JG: They went to lunch, they went to lunch and George said Hey, I’m having lunch with Robert David Steele. Why don’t we ya know Skype call in and do a live stream and we’ll interview Robert David Steele. I said sure, sounds great you know…so we did that and Robert said that he’s got this uh, you know Unrig, ya know uh thing
FB: Which is legitimate, I mean that is legitimate with Cynthia McKinney, and all that.
JG: Well, whatever it is, he presented it to us, we’ve got this Unrig thing and there’s a uh Indie go go or whatever, where he’s trying to raise money and in good faith I, I you know we… I felt a little reluctant about this because… at that point we hadn’t monetized our effort and even now we’re not taking advertising or supporting outside products we’re just you know inviting viewers to sponsor Crowdsource the Truth if they feel they want to and there’s no and there’s no obligation.
Everybody can still access it for free and everything like that but we were sort of did this little mini impromptu telethon for him that I, I wasn’t fully comfortable with, but you know uh, George has become a close ally, close friend, my partner in this effort and so…
FB: Dude, I watched you bail him out of jail. I know that you’ve gone the extra mile.
JG: That’s got nothing to do with it, that’s got nothing to do with it, but I’m just saying you know, he and I have developed a trust and so he was with Robert and this is what he wanted to do so we did it and I mean, we raised like fifteen thousand bucks or something like that –
FB: I saw it.
JG: …from our Crowdsource community in about an hour, or two hours. and I mean, I would think
FB: respectable, that was highly respectable that was something that you know of course he would have wanted to see.
JG: I would think that he would want to consider us an ally so I think that night or the next day…yeah and then so we planned, Hey Robert come to New York City and we’ll do one of my sit down multicamera interviews with you know nice lighting and
FB: like you did with Rod Wheeler.
JG: High bitrate camera Rod Wheeler, and we’ve done uh Jerome Corsi that I’m trying to find a minute in the day to finish, and we did Lionel, and uh Lee Stranahan, and I’ve done two with George.
FB: Oh that’s awesome.
JG: I did one with Jack Posobiec, and it’s you know, it’s one of the featured segments that we’re having here on Crowdsource the Truth. So I was like, sure yeah let’s do Robert I, I went to a nice hotel in Midtown and you know booked a uh, like a conference room for us to do this in, I mean I was treating the guy with the total respect, I would treat any guest with and uhm so the night prior to…the interview I mean I’d have to go back and do a time correlation to get this all accurate, but it was essentially this: the night prior to the interview or two days prior to the interview, George had received some intelligence from a very well trusted source of his, who has been very accurate in the past and this person said there was radiological material in a diplomatic container on board the Maersk Memphis.
Tracking the Leopard Meroz: For references on the “well trusted source” of George Webb, see my May 28, 2018, article, “The Unusual Telephone Calls of FBI Informant Okey Marshall Richards, Jr.“, and also Steve Outtrim’s November 29, 2018, interview with Queen Tut aka Susan Lutzke Holmes.
FB: Right, right, right.
JG: So we started doing a broadcast about this and everybody went online and went to the publicly available tools like fleet finder and uh shipping… what’s it called? genius or whatever it is, and then and you know we were like, hey wait a minute, this thing is pulling into port right now in the Port of Charleston, and you know people in the Crowdsource community and myself contacted the Coast Guard and said we have intelligence.
We have information coupled with government reports from the Obama administration and other people and you know publicly available news reporting that indicates that dirty bombs and the illicit transport of lose radiological material is one of the most credible uh and uh clear and present dangers to the safety of the people of the United States and we instructed them to inspect the ship we didn’t tell them there was a bomb. I didn’t call them and say there’s a dirty bomb. I believe they used the term, dirty bomb, or if I did say anything…
Tracking the Leopard Meroz: see, for example, Reuters.com article, “FBI opens probe of false ‘dirty bomb’ threat at South Carolina Port“, or the New York Times article, “How a Conspiracy Theorist’s Call About a Dirty Bomb Shut Down Part of a Port“.
FB: Somebody was just trying to get you guys caught up in the media cycle.
JG: Oh, no, no, no, I mean all we were trying to do was be responsible about reporting what we thought was a threat. We didn’t make a bomb threat.
FB: Without a doubt you guys did the right thing.
JG: So what happened was the next day, the next day, Robert David Steele sends me this ridiculous email saying that the interview is canceled and that I’m wanted by the NYPD and that he could appear on Skype; like I mean, I would really care about interviewing him if I’m gonna be arrested by the police.
This was the most bizarre aspect of it. He said he’s willing to appear on Skype but he can’t be in a room that I control. It’s like a bizarre email so I called him up. I mean, I thought he was a friend and an ally at that point and I called him up, and I said you know well what is this about – the NYPD. I mean my apartment is just a few blocks away from the uh police precinct. Certainly if the Coast Guard or the FBI or any government agency wanted me arrested I would imagine the NYPD would be here in a matter of minutes.
FB: Right.
JG: And I hadn’t even seen his email; it was an hour and a half old by the time I saw it, cuz you know, unlike him and some of his potential friends, I’m not monitoring everything he does at every minute of the day and commenting on it right away, which I also find a little bit odd. Not that there’s anything illegal about that. I’m not suggesting that.
They just seemed very obsessed with me, very interested in what we’re doing, so uh, I called him up and I said you know, what is this about the NYPD, and he said well you know I can’t do the interview, but if you wanna do Skype, and I was like, Robert, I don’t care about the interview.
I want to know about the NYPD. How do you know this? And he told me he has connections and he has contacts and he’s you know sophisticated intelligence person and all this, and uh you know, he basically said you know, Jason, our relationship is over. He used a lot of foul language. I broadcast the phone call in one of our live streams.
FB: Oh wow.
JG: Well I mean you know it’s legal in New York State to record a phone call if one of the parties on the call..
FB: Oh no, no I’m not saying, yeah absolutely I, I, I expect you to be recording this call, I mean I do honestly.
JG: With your with your permission I’d like to broadcast this call. With your permission and if you say no, then I won’t.
FB: Well yeah as long as you keep my name you know private, uh like I don’t..
Tracking the Leopard Meroz: It was Frank Bacon aka Tyroan Simpson, a former associate of Steele, that requested that his name be kept private in this instance. Thus, the Steele statement which has carried over into the new lawsuit is misleading when it says, “As part of the modus operandi of the conspiracy and the scheme to defame Plaintiffs, Goodman and Negron employed caricatures to hide the identity of the speakers. The “FRANK BACON” video features Goodman speaking with an anonymous person who is represented by the caricature of a hotdog and a strip of bacon:”.
JG: Could mask your voice, disguise your name, all of that lemme just continue, so he’s cursing at me in this phone call, he’s cursing at me and sending me threatening emails and then… you know… he emailed me outta nowhere, saying that he’s already had two people ask him for their money back; not because I told people to get their money back, but because people recognized he was acting like a crazy person and threatening me and being very unreasonable after we had in good faith helped him raise money for his uh event.
Tracking the Leopard Meroz: See Document 34 [rds vs goodman doc 34 307 2018] in the Richmond, Virginia, lawsuit on the fraudulent documents submitted to the Court by Queen Tut aka Susan Lutzke. Item 20 says in part, “…using that email address, she made a $25 donation to Earth Intelligence Network on June 13, 2017, under the name ‘Susan Lutzke’…”. So was Susan Lutzke an actual sincere supporter of Steele, or using the donation as a ruse?
In the case of Susan Lutzke as Queen Tut, Jason Goodman was the one to choose her anonymous internet handle, and created a problem for Steele when he hid the real identity of Susan Lutzke as a journalistic source. Since immediately after donating $25 to Steele’s #UNRIG campaign, Lutzke began to defame Steele under an anonymous handle on the Crowd the Truth show, as a regular guest, one wonders if it was a premeditated set-up.
FB: yeah a lot of money
JG: …for his organization or whatever it is, so he told me you know be very very careful and he’s sending me these threatening emails so uh….you know it basically escalated from there I told him not to communicate with me any more I have no interest in speaking to him. he sent me some certificate from his thing that said that I’m a part of his revolution and I told him I want my money back.
I am not part of his I’m not part of his organization I’m not part of any revolution that he’s planning and uh I want him to destroy the certificate destroy, destroy the original and send me my money back and so he said that he doesn’t have the money that Indie gogo has the money and Indie gogo is not giving him the money until July and that I have to go deal with Indie gogo. Now I think I gave him $50 or something like that and obviously I don’t want to lose $50 but I got a lot of things going on I’m not $50 is not at the forefront of my mind.
Tracking the Leopard Meroz: On page 7 of the refiled Complaint dated September 28, 2020, Steele states in item 11, in the last two sentences: “Only one (1) person who donated to Earth Intelligence Network on June 13, 2017, identified themself as living in New York. That person donated $50.” This became an issue when Jason Goodman claimed that Earth Intelligence Network had not registered as a charity in New York.
FB: yeah.
JG: I mean I want to get the money back but I just haven’t had a chance to I mean we’ve been trying to contact Eric Braverman, we’ve been trying to contact Julian Assange, it seems that you know he seems affiliated with Defango; he’s appeared on Defango’s show and Defango has praised him so you know, I don’t know what that tells you about him but uh Defango has also claimed that he contacted his colleagues at Oxford and then obviously as you saw they tried to kick us out of Oxford we weren’t there doing anything.
FB: yeah, I don’t think that had much to do with Defango he operates much the same way you and I operated.
JG: well so why do you suppose the Blavat… the Blavatnik school of government would want to kick us out for simply sitting there and wanting to report on their event if it wasn’t that someone called and…
FB: uh… good point I mean uh I think um you know number one, it’s interesting to see that Braverman is actually alive and and that is odd but you guys have become very um…famous as being these incredible like the mystery gang.
JG: Oh I don’t know about that.
FB: Well you’re famous enough, and not only are you famous enough I have a great deal of respect for people that in good health and good conscience go out there to fuckin’ snap the dragon that we’re trying to put down, I’ll I’ll be really clear I’ll be very frank with you – yeah -my reality my reality is I wanna see an end to the fuckin deep state I am tired of not being free and I see the internet as being the great equalizer of people being able to create the types of organizational structure that they need networks are markets in my world…(16:08)
(17:59) JG: I’m sorry, listen if he was dealing with me in a legitimate fashion and if he was an ally and a friend I mean, you know we just raised fifteen thousand dollars for him so let’s assume someone did contact him and say hey NYPD is going to arrest Jason. Why wouldn’t he just call me and say hey I don’t think we’re going to be able to do the interview tomorrow because I’ve just received good information that you’re going to be arrested by the NYPD. Why don’t you go down there to the precinct and turn yourself in because that’s exactly what I would do if the NYPD wanted me I’m not going to run from the NYPD.
FB: No.
JG: I would go over there and I would demonstrate that I am not going to resist arrest. I would want a lawyer and I’d go in there and I would face the charge, because as you can see I am not wanted by the NYPD, and I personally verified that by going there and asking them and calling. And he could’ve done that, he’s this big fancy intelligence operative he could’ve done that he was clearly in my mind trying to intimidate me in the email that he sent to me he included a message for George which obviously he wanted me to see, why does he need to CC me on a message for George?
FB: It’s childish.
JG: It’s childish, it’s like a five year old ok. He says George, I think the best thing for you to do is dump Jason and come work with me, so now he’s accusing me of tortious interference which is a civil tort — that’s not a crime. That’s interfering with somebody else’s business. He’s the one that’s committed that civil tort. I don’t need to sue him; he’s a loser and I don’t want money from him, I just want him to give the money back to our Crowdsource community members, who feel that he was less than honest with them, that he was less than honest in his dealings with me; that’s all I want. I don’t ever want to talk to him again I have no respect for him and I don’t care about the truther movement or whatever movement I’m not going to join a movement. .. (19:46)
Ahh, that last statement of Jason Goodman’s calling Steele “a loser” has an ironic context, now that the first lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice, and Steele had to begin again with another judge in another federal court division of Eastern Virginia.
Tracking The Leopard Meroz 