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Activist with UN Link Sued and Got
Facebook Post Removed Now Files Email
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 11 – Suing for defamation
and some say censorship in
U.S. Federal Court is a
Venezuelan self-described
human rights activist
affiliated with the United
Nations.
On November
25 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Robert W.
Lehrburger held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Maria Herminia
Graterol-Garrido back in June
sued Patricia Maria Vega in
the SDNY, alleging that Vega
"has engaged in a deliberate
attempt to destroy Plaintiff's
professional reputation as
part of a scheme to extort
money from Plaintiff's
husband, who fathered a child
with Defendant through a
one-time sexual
encounter."
There was
a settlement conference, and
now Graterol is asked Judge
Lehrburger to make Vega take
down a Facebook post they say
is based on a confidential
settlement session.
At times
in the SDNY it is unclear
where the confidentiality
begins, and where it ends. The
letter urging Judge Lehrburger
to act against Vega makes the
public Facebook page a sealed
exhibit. Since the Facebook
post is public, here's from
it:
"My son's father
has not uttered a word of
testimony in years. He sits
silently as his unethical
attorney lies for him and the
MAGISTRATES who are required
to verify evidence from
credible sources accept her
uncorroborated lies even when
I dispute their
veracity. He has never
even been asked to
disclose his tax
identity by a single hearing
officer. My son’s
stepmother has profited from
evasion of obligations to
support a child. The alleged
facts of her financial
dependence was one of the many
false allegations used by
lawyers to influence the UCS
to deviate from the law.
"Maria
Herminia Graterol Garrido
knows that my son is legally
fatherless. No legal
Order of Support can exist
against a parent until their
'Ability to Pay' has been
investigated No Court
has been permitted to ratify
stipulations of support for
Children born out of wedlock
since 2009. A
stipulation of support for my
son CANNOT legally be ratified
by any court in the United
States and An Order of Support
for my son cannot exist
without an investigation by
the State and trial before a
judge competent to intervene
to protect the child’s best
interests....
"Confidential
Child Support hearings and
Family offense proceedings
before magistrates who do not
verify facts is a cash cow for
unethical lawyers to create
revenue streams that last for
decades. I am grateful
to have decided to get an MBA
and not a law degree. I am
grateful to have obscure
expertise in systemic failure
in complex organizations. I am
grateful that I still see
light at the end of the tunnel
and that it does get a tiny
bit brighter every day."
Graterol
for example signed on to a
letter as representing UNIFEM
/ UN Women. The follow
up hearing on whether to hold
Vega in contempt was re-set
for December 2, and Inner City
Press again covered it.
Ms. Vega
said she had taken the post
down on November 30, even
though, she said, she
shouldn't have to. This drew
resistance, and a stern
warning to not do it again. It
was acknowledged, however,
that anything that is public
can be published, and
republished.
On December 9,
Graterol's lawyer filed into
the docket an email from Vega
on her efforts to track down
for DNA testing Peter
Ikladious; Graterol's lawyer's
part of the exchange was
"January 7 is the deadline in
the Case Management Plan. We
do not consent to extending
it." Vega on December 11
requested just that.
The case is
Graterol-Garrido v. Vega,
20-cv-4209 (Cronan /
Lehrburger)
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