Three years ago I left a business partnership under very bad conditions. My investment money had been sunk, by my business parter, into his "other" company and claimed I still owed him for $180,000 of his "time" spent working for this "other" company (we were supposed to be 50/50 partners). After realizing I had no assets, no money, and no way of making money that would not be taken by my partner I left with the shirt on my back and two threats leveled at my life (one of which was documented by a police report).
I fought for two years in a civil case and managed only to get my name off the company (since all debt and creditors were directed toward me after I left). The company was still in business and still making money for a while, but then ceased most, if not all its opperations.
.....fast foward three years. Someone on the internet asked me why I was not still at the company and I gave the explanation above (almost verbatim)....with the added words of calling my ex partner a "Scumbag".
Well, the response was on a web forum and to my supprise my ex-partner found it and replied in an almost scary, stalker-like swiftness, and posted a message of his own....vicious in nature. Within minutes I had the moderators remove the entire thread. The next day though I recieved notice of a lawsuite being filed claiming slander.
What do I do?
The facts stated were true. The "scumbag" remark is oppinion.
What I did was stupid. I should *never* have said a thing and I let my guard down thinking that he was no longer in business, and no longer stalking me.
I spent $30,000 + dollars just to get my name off the company and remove myself from being liable for the debts that were being racked up after I left....I don't want to go thru that again.
Any advice??????
I fought for two years in a civil case and managed only to get my name off the company (since all debt and creditors were directed toward me after I left). The company was still in business and still making money for a while, but then ceased most, if not all its opperations.
.....fast foward three years. Someone on the internet asked me why I was not still at the company and I gave the explanation above (almost verbatim)....with the added words of calling my ex partner a "Scumbag".
Well, the response was on a web forum and to my supprise my ex-partner found it and replied in an almost scary, stalker-like swiftness, and posted a message of his own....vicious in nature. Within minutes I had the moderators remove the entire thread. The next day though I recieved notice of a lawsuite being filed claiming slander.
What do I do?
The facts stated were true. The "scumbag" remark is oppinion.
What I did was stupid. I should *never* have said a thing and I let my guard down thinking that he was no longer in business, and no longer stalking me.
I spent $30,000 + dollars just to get my name off the company and remove myself from being liable for the debts that were being racked up after I left....I don't want to go thru that again.
Any advice??????
. I'm a bit shaken by all of this though. 