After LEOSU Director Steve Maritas admitted to destroying relevant evidence in the SPFPA’s defamation lawsuit against Defendants LEOSU and Maritas, the SPFPA brought this improper behavior to the attention of the Federal Court. On September 22, 2022 the Federal Court’s Discovery Master found that LEOSU and Maritas “deleted relevant [evidence] during this lawsuit,” that evidence “has been lost because they failed to take reasonable steps to preserve it,” and recommends a Court order of “an expert computer forensic examination of Defendants’ Electronic Devices….” In the federal court’s report issued on September 22, 2022 it outright rejects LEOSU’s and Maritas’ unbelievable and frivolous claim that the destroyed evidence was not relevant, as “it strains credulity to say none of the emails or text messages Defendants deleted during this litigation were relevant.”
The forensic exam will focus on and determine the “timing, manner, extent, and nature of Defendants’ deletions of” evidence. After the forensic examination is completed, and the report identifies when and how often Maritas and the LEOSU improperly destroyed the evidence, the federal court will then determine the appropriate remedy, which may include “default judgment” and “monetary sanctions” against LEOSU and Maritas.
Remember, the last time the SPFPA received a “monetary” judgment against Maritas, it was for more than $500,000. This time we are predicted to get a judgment for substantially more. And now that Maritas’ improper actions have drawn the LEOSU into his mess, the LEOSU is a Defendant subject to the judgment. LEOSU members should be questioning why so much of their hard-earned dues contributions will be paid to the SPFPA to satisfy this next judgment, and only because Maritas lacks the ability to control himself. It has long been predicted that the feds will eventually catch up to Maritas, and that time is here.
We are not making this up. Read it for yourself, see the full Report below.
