I would add this to what Giovanni has observed.
Rossi probably sued first because not only was his failure to perform
obvious to all insiders at IH, but moreover - he considered Industrial
Heat to be his actual partner in an ongoing scam which "could have"
dragged on for far longer (had they been dishonest).
The problem was - Rossi could see that IH/Cherokee etc. were raking in
lots of cash from investors - far more of the loot than Rossi was
getting, so he sued to get a bigger share -- hoping they would settle,
rather than expose what he thought was a joint windfall, in which he was
not getting his fair cut.
He possibly believed that IH had valuable deep pocket investors in other
projects of dubious merit, and did not want to risk loosing them when
the money seemed to be flowing in strongly from Europe and China. The
"brownfield" businesses of IH and Cherokee etc had itself been claimed
by some to be ripe territory for scam artists, and Rossi was fully
familiar with that niche in Italy due to his prior scam in brownfields:
the Petroldragon affair.
http://newenergytimes.com/v2/sr/RossiECat/RossiPetroldragonStory.shtml
When viewed from the perspective and history of Petroldragon, Leonardo,
brownfields and Rossi's past contacts (at high level in our DoE - the
other Leonardo) which were involved with his TEG scam, then a "silent
partner in crime" scenario makes sense ... especially to a delusional
inventor like Rossi.
Giovanni Santostasi wrote:
The courts are full of frivolous lawsuits and crazy claims of all
types. People spin the truth or straight lie all the time in court
proceedings from divorce to business cases.
And it is well known that filing first gives you a psychological
advantage.
So Rossi could have simply anticipated he would be sued so he sued first.
The fact he filed first is not the proof of anything.
Giovanni
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:11 AM, a.ashfield <a.ashfi...@verizon.net
<mailto:a.ashfi...@verizon.net>> wrote:
Jed,
It is you who is missing my point. Show me one case where the
fraudster took his victim to court.
That is the last thing a fraudster would want to do, to have all
the facts come out IN COURT.
