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| Zeev Haskal |
A lawsuit was filed earlier this week in Santa Barbara Superior Court against Mega Group Investigations, Zeev Haskal and Sarah Byrnes (husband and wife), of North Hollywood, California, and their client, currently referred to as John Doe.
Defendants are charged with Libel, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, Invasion of Privacy-False Light, Invasion of Privacy-Intrusion, Stalking, Negligence and Negligent Supervision, with regard to a website that was designed to exist in total anonymity.
The website’s owner went to great lengths to shield its identity, using a UK company to register the website with a Bahamas-based registrar, hosted on servers in Turkey, with ownership of the domain name transferred to a Panama-based company.
Very clever. Very sophisticated.
Except for one thing...
Mega Group left fingerprints and got caught, red-handed.
Their misconduct is depicted in the lawsuit as taken with an improper and evil motive amounting to malice and in conscious disregard to Plaintiff's rights.
Furthermore, Mega Group, Haskal and Byrnes are charged with contravening the California Private Investigator Act, which prohibits licensed PIs from committing any act constituting dishonesty or fraud.
A Complaint will be filed imminently with the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, which issues PI licenses and takes disciplinary action against license-holders who abuse their positions.
Furthermore, Mega Group, Haskal and Byrnes are charged with contravening the California Private Investigator Act, which prohibits licensed PIs from committing any act constituting dishonesty or fraud.
A Complaint will be filed imminently with the California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, which issues PI licenses and takes disciplinary action against license-holders who abuse their positions.