Ex-Secret Service Boss Kimberly Cheatle Named in $7 Million Lawsuit
(So the SS is now persecuting agents or ex-agents for some reason, not unknown but very similar to FIB)
Published Jul 24, 2024 at 11:38 AM EDT
Former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was named in a $7 million lawsuit three days before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, which ultimately led to her standing down on July 23.
The suit, filed by Boris Zavadovsky and Elena Dvoinik, and obtained by Newsweek, targets the Secret Service, its director, the Austrian police and othersfor defamation and invasion of privacy among other causes of action.
Zavadovsky and Dvoinik, who were being investigated for alleged fraud, claim the Secret Service and other U.S. agencies contacted hotels and other U.S. companies under the premise that they were conducting criminal investigations in America against the pair.Zavadovsky was allegedly a U.S. government employee at the time.
The case is part of their long-running legal action against the U.S. and Austrian governments. Several lawsuits taken by Zavadovsky and Dvoinik, based on the same set of facts, have already been dismissed in the U.S. courts.
The latest filing in the case includes a redacted 2021 email with the subject:"USSS [United States Secret Service] and Beacon Hotel." The email is listed as being the property of the Secret Service. In it, one person discussed Zavadovsky's alleged forged hotel receipt from 2006. The person who sent the email writes to another person to agree that the receipt is a poor-quality forgery that Zavadovsky allegedly created on Microsoft Word.
The claim that contacts made by the Secret Service to hotels and others in America "were made by the United States Secret Service at the request of the Austrian police," the filing says.
The Secret Service allegedly sought confirmation that the two plaintiffs "forged receipts, certificates, and other official documents in order to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, insurance companies, and Plaintiff Zavadovsky's employer, 'the U.S. Government.'"
Some of these invoices, receipts and certificates appear to have been discovered during a search.
But after resigning from the role as director of the Secret Service, Cheatle's name in the lawsuit is likely to be replaced by her successor, who the White House has said will be appointed soon.
New York attorney Colleen Kerwick told Newsweek: "Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 25 governs substitution of parties. In particular, Rule 25(c) provides: 'Transfer of Interest. In case of any transfer of interest, the action may be continued by or against the original party, unless the court upon motion directs the person to whom the interest is transferred to be substituted in the action or joined with the original party.'"
Kerwick added that, from past case law, it was likely that Cheatle would simply be replaced and would not be joined in the case.
The Secret Service was contacted for comment via email on Tuesday. Newsweek also reached out to the lawyers for Zavadovsky and Dvoinik via email on Tuesday.
https://www.newsweek.com/secret-service-boss-kimberly-cheatle-7-million-defamation-lawsuit-1929273
PS: Why doesn’t anyone know her Date of Birth? (She’s one of them) And look at early life and education, she has none. From WIKI
Kimberly A. Cheatle (born 1970/1971[1]) is an American former law enforcement officer who served as the 27th director of the United States Secret Service from 2022 to 2024.[2] She joined the United States Secret Service in 1995. She left the Secret Service in 2019 and served at PepsiCo as senior director of global security from 2019 to 2022. She assumed the office as director of the United States Secret Service in September 2022 by the appointment from President Joe Biden.
She was in charge of the Secret Service during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump,[3] which brought her into the national spotlight where she faced congressional hearing, widespread criticism, and calls to resign.[4] She resigned on July 23, 2024.
Early life and education
Cheatle was born in Hinsdale, Illinois, and grew up in Danville, Illinois.[5] She completed her undergraduate studies at Eastern Illinois University with a major in sociology and a concentration in criminal justice.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Cheatle