![]() ![]() ![]() Powell’s entity Defending the Republic contributed $550,000 to an ongoing effort to try to discredit President Joe Biden’s win in the Grand Canyon State through such bizarre methods as hunting for bamboo fibers in ballots. In late July, the firm behind Arizona’s so-called “forensic audit” disclosed its donors. The Kraken’s fundraising effort has not ended. “The Cross-Pollination of Extremist Funds” That brought Fink to another phase of his opposition: “Defanging the Kraken.” He also wants the judge to sanction the nine lawyers with a fine for the money that they raised in support of their election conspiracy theories. A federal judge in Michigan has been considering Fink’s long-pending request to refer Powell, Wood, and seven other attorneys working with them for disbarment proceedings. In December, Fink became the first attorney to seek heavy sanctions against Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and other lawyers pushing former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. “Step one was stopping the Kraken,” Fink reflected on the Law&Crime podcast “Objections: with Adam Klasfeld.” “Step two is caging the Kraken.” ![]() The last court is where the Kraken met perhaps its most tenacious adversary: Detroit’s lawyer David Fink, who decided that defeating the lawsuit was not enough. The creation of pro-Trump conspiracy theorists, the Kraken took its name from an octopus-like creature of mythology and inserted its tentacles into federal courts in Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia and Michigan. Soundly defeated in four separate courts, the election-attacking legal monster known as the “Kraken” has been morphing into a different beast. Listen to the full episode on Apple, Spotify or wherever else you get your podcasts, and subscribe! ![]()
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