My question involves defamation in the state of: Florida
Recently my fiance started a facebook page and a gofundme for a disabled child. There was an agreement of when the funds were to be released to them. Approximately 10 days before the funds were to be released, they started calling, texting and facebook messaging him claiming he had until midnight to give them the money. He told them we had an agreement but, they continued to threaten him. They went so far as claiming that their local police department was at their house and telling them that he had to comply. When he phoned them they even had a family member impersonate an officer on the phone and when the supposed officer refused to give him his badge number he became increasingly suspicious. He hung up and contacted their local PD to see if they had an officer by that name, which they didn't. The local PD also confirmed that at that time no officer had been dispatched to their home. He told them that he knew that they were lying. They did at that time, call the PD and file a report. The report is clearly false and according to them states that he refused to "ever" give them the money. They further harassed him and even went so far as messaging his mother and his aunt on facebook using his status as an atheist and stating that he had prior drug charges and had ran "other fundraising scams". He has never even had a traffic citation let alone any criminal charges. he paid for a been verified background check on himself and sent it to them. They removed him from the facebook page that he created and publicly defamed him on the page. He has spoken to the PD out there several times and they told him there are currently no charges pending against him but, the report was sent to the DA for further review. He has every facebook conversation and hundreds of texts between him and the parties that made the accusation proving that none of this is true and proving their harassment, threats and defamation. What can he do legally? He tried to file an extortion report here in FL and the local Sheriff's dept said it didn't fall under that law because he was going to give them the money at a later date per the original agreement. This doesn't seem right. They threatened him for monetary gain, even stating that they wanting the money because they opened a high interest yielding account to deposit it into. 3.9% monthly interest on about $5000.00 actually. This Facebook page he started has over 3600 likes and has had quite a bit of media coverage including The Today Show Online and The Huffington Post. Also, he had previously given them $1000.00 cash from it when they made a trip to FL. All this occurred over only a short period of time, about 5 or 6 weeks.
Recently my fiance started a facebook page and a gofundme for a disabled child. There was an agreement of when the funds were to be released to them. Approximately 10 days before the funds were to be released, they started calling, texting and facebook messaging him claiming he had until midnight to give them the money. He told them we had an agreement but, they continued to threaten him. They went so far as claiming that their local police department was at their house and telling them that he had to comply. When he phoned them they even had a family member impersonate an officer on the phone and when the supposed officer refused to give him his badge number he became increasingly suspicious. He hung up and contacted their local PD to see if they had an officer by that name, which they didn't. The local PD also confirmed that at that time no officer had been dispatched to their home. He told them that he knew that they were lying. They did at that time, call the PD and file a report. The report is clearly false and according to them states that he refused to "ever" give them the money. They further harassed him and even went so far as messaging his mother and his aunt on facebook using his status as an atheist and stating that he had prior drug charges and had ran "other fundraising scams". He has never even had a traffic citation let alone any criminal charges. he paid for a been verified background check on himself and sent it to them. They removed him from the facebook page that he created and publicly defamed him on the page. He has spoken to the PD out there several times and they told him there are currently no charges pending against him but, the report was sent to the DA for further review. He has every facebook conversation and hundreds of texts between him and the parties that made the accusation proving that none of this is true and proving their harassment, threats and defamation. What can he do legally? He tried to file an extortion report here in FL and the local Sheriff's dept said it didn't fall under that law because he was going to give them the money at a later date per the original agreement. This doesn't seem right. They threatened him for monetary gain, even stating that they wanting the money because they opened a high interest yielding account to deposit it into. 3.9% monthly interest on about $5000.00 actually. This Facebook page he started has over 3600 likes and has had quite a bit of media coverage including The Today Show Online and The Huffington Post. Also, he had previously given them $1000.00 cash from it when they made a trip to FL. All this occurred over only a short period of time, about 5 or 6 weeks.
Libel: Libel on Social Media and Possible Extortion
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