Filed under: Sex, Scandals, Scoops, Law, Barack Obama, Drugs, Larry Sinclair
Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who claims to have used drugs with Sen. Barack Obama in 1999, has filed a new defamation lawsuit against several individuals who, he claims, made up and spread lies about his mental state and character after he posted his allegations about Obama in January on YouTube. He is seeking $3 million in damages.
Big Head DC has obtained a copy of the suit, which requests a jury trial to determine the possible liability of three Internet posters in defaming Sinclair. The individuals Sinclair is suing have registered accounts at DemocraticUnderground.com, YouTube.com, and Digg.com, although their real names are not yet known. They are currently listed in the suit by their screen names:
TubeSockTedD, mzmolly and OWNINGLIARS.
The case, filed on Thursday in D.C. District Court, reiterates claims Sinclair has made in the past about Obama.
“On the evening of November 6, 1999, Plaintiff’s limousine driver telephoned then-Illinois State Senator Barrack Obama to set up a introduction of Plaintiff to Mr. Obama,” according to the lawsuit. “Later that evening at a bar which Plaintiff believes was called Alibis, Plaintiff met Mr. Obama. Mr. Obama offered to purchasing cocaine for Plaintiff. Mr. Obama made a telephone call from his cellphone to a presently unknown individual during which Mr. Obama arranged the cocaine purchase.
“Mr. Obama and Plaintiff then departed the bar in Plaintiff’s limousine and proceeded to an unknown location where Mr. Obama exited the limousine with two hundred fifty dollars ($250) tendered by Plaintiff and returned a short while later with an ‘eightball’ of cocaine and gave it to Plaintiff,” the suit continues. “Plaintiff and Mr. Obama then ingested cocaine.”
A sexual encounter allegedly took place after the drug use.
Each of the individuals involved in the suit have made Internet claims indicating that Sinclair is lying, although the Obama campaign has not publicly commented on the matter.
A PolyScore computer analysis conducted on Sinclair in February indicated that he was being truthful in his drug claims, although experts hired by WhiteHouse.com, the Web site that paid for the polygraph, disagreed with the PolyScore readings.
