Greenpeace should be worried. A second large company has accused the prominent environmental group of violating the potent U.S. racketeering law. In a lawsuit filed August 22, Energy Transfer Partners accused Greenpeace of spreading lies and inciting vandalism to raise money and hamper completion of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
The legal attack follows a similar suit against Greenpeace brought last year on behalf of the Canadian timber company Resolute Forest Products Inc.
However these cases turn out—and Greenpeace strongly denies liability in both—the litigation could put a serious dent in the group’s coffers and distract its leadership from other priorities. What’s more, additional lawsuits may be on the way.
The New York law firm Kasowitz Benson Torres filed both anti-Greenpeace complaints and engineered the theory that the activist outfit has violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Marc Kasowitz, the firm’s founder, is President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney (though he was marginalized recently in the Russia-influence investigation).
TVNL Comment: This is Trump's way of destroying his adversaries: sue them out of existence because they cannot afford to fight back. Evil is evil is evil.