Sunday Easter is very lively and warm.

The Westeros family invited many group executives and their families to take yachts to Santa Cruz Island west of Los Angeles for a picnic. During this period, the children also organized various Easter activities. The party did not end until the evening, and the guests and hosts enjoyed it.

This time, Simon directly showed up with two Jenny and three children in front of everyone, which was considered to be a public confession of some revelations during this period.

The participants were all core executives of the Westeros system and had heard of the intimate relationship between Simon and the female assistant, so they had no special feelings. When they got along, they were sincere blessings for a lucky girl. Many women at the scene felt Simon's concern for the female assistant mother and daughter, and even gave birth to the feeling that "It's better to have a child than to struggle for decades."

The short-lived holiday warmth did not change the political and public opinion chaos in the Westeros system.

Monday, April 4th.

After the Westeros system launched another more fierce offensive after launching a ban on Hurst Group two weeks ago.

Paul Lamart, a former business owner who once operated an auto parts factory in Edwardsville, Illinois, pointed out that between 1986 and 1987, the local newspaper Edwardsville Reporter published six consecutive false reports accusing his company of tax evasion and product quality problems. These reports later proved to be false because the investigation and severance of cooperation between the authorities and partners were misled by the newspaper, which eventually led to the bankruptcy of his factory.

Paul Lamart filed a lawsuit against Edwardsville Reporter for serious damage to personal property for malicious defamation, demanding a total of up to $60 million in compensation. At the same time, 263 workers who had lost their jobs due to the closure of the accessories factory also jointly launched a class action lawsuit against Edwardsville Reporter, with the cumulative claim amount exceeding $50 million.

The sight turned to San Antonio, Texas, in the southern United States.

In 1991, a horrific case of priests assault on boys occurred in San Antonio. There were as many as 21 victims recorded by the police.

The pastor involved was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment.

Although justice has been late for many years, it finally comes.

However, during the investigation of the case, in order to pursue news hot spots, the local San Antonio Impression in San Antonio City exposed the personal information of 15 of the victims through direct or indirect measures in order to attract the public's attention, and the personal lives of the other 14 children whose personal information was exposed were also seriously affected.

Now, 15 families have jointly filed a lawsuit with the San Antonio Impression for serious violations of citizens' privacy rights, demanding a formal apology and a total of $80 million in compensation for the 15 victims.

Connecticut on the east coast of the United States, Stanford is located next to the north of Greenwich City.

During the peak of the real estate bubble in the United States in the 1980s, a group of owners in Stanford purchased 61 apartments in a newly developed community with a total of 200 properties in the northern part of the city around 1986. As a result, these apartments were later detected to have used seriously carcinogenic asbestos materials during the construction process.

The real estate developers involved have gone bankrupt due to subsequent lawsuits and the economic turmoil in the 87 stock market crash, and many owners have failed to receive the compensation they deserve.

After communicating with each other, many victims found that most of the owners chose to buy a house in that community due to the large-scale advertising of the local Stanford Advocate. At that time, serious factual words such as "energy-saving and environmentally friendly" were even used as promotional slogans on the advertising page.

Therefore, 61 owners who are still trapped in the unfinished community filed a lawsuit against the Stanford Advocate on Monday after Easter on suspicion of false advertising, demanding that the newspaper publicly apologize and claim compensation for personal property losses totaling more than $60 million, including potential health damage.

The news of the three lawsuits with a cumulative amount of $250 million was exposed, which directly shocked American society. The large traditional media groups in North America felt a chill on their backs.

There is no doubt that the three newspapers that have been litigated are all media under the Hearst Group.

Moreover, just these three lawsuits, the huge $250 million claim is equivalent to one-tenth of the total assets of the Hurst family.

The Westeros system has no concealed itself. The truth about the promoters behind these three lawsuits. The detailed reports of the three lawsuits that day appeared on the homepage of the Igret Portal.

In comparison, a former Wei family maid who was in a huge breach of contract lawsuit for betrayal of the Westeros family at the same time, while betraying the Westeros family, seemed less attention-grabbing.

With the strong attention of the entire American society, more news was exposed on the Internet and traditional media that day.

The initiators of the three lawsuits have all hired the top lawyer team in the United States with the help of a "Media Victims Legal Aid Foundation". Industry insiders predict that the huge amount of claims involved in the three lawsuits will be unless a settlement can be reached in the short term. Otherwise, the most conservative estimate is that the cost of lawyers in each lawsuit will be more than tens of millions of dollars. If the three lawsuits continue for a long time, the cost will be even more immeasurable.

Even if the details of the specific agreement signed by a foundation and the recipient cannot be explored, it is obvious that the Westeros system will definitely not easily accept the settlement of the Hearst Group.

On the other hand, as the defendant, any set of compensation amounts in the three cases will be enough to make the newspaper involved go bankrupt and liquidate. After all, the entire Hurst Group's annual net profit in 1993 was only US$169 million. Moreover, even if these newspapers really go bankrupt due to litigation, according to relevant federal laws, both the litigation cost and the final compensation will be borne by the parent company Hurst Group in the future.

Simon Westeros' move is definitely ten times more ruthless than the Hurst Group's previous inconspicuous exposure of other people's scandals. Of course, except for Simon Westeros, no one else can afford this move in the United States and even the world.

Now, no matter how Hearst Group responds, it will inevitably bear the consequences that are even more serious than being banned by the Westeros system half a month ago.

If you are passively dealing with this lawsuit, then you can wait to lose the lawsuit and pay $250 million in compensation.

If we respond actively, the Westeros system will not bear less than ten million for each lawsuit, and the Hurst Group's efforts cannot be less than Simon Westeros.

The only solution to this matter is to quickly reach a settlement.

However, the conflict between the two sides lasted for several years. In the past week, the entire Hurst Group has spared no effort to expose Simon Westeros’ various unknown privacy, and it is already in a state of trouble. Westeros obviously cannot agree to a quick reconciliation.

Not only that, the three lawsuits exposed today are likely to be just the beginning.

Since this move was come up with, Simon Westeros could not have used it only three times.

In CNN's report on the incident that afternoon, a law professor from Columbia University analyzed that according to the exposed materials, the biggest reason why Simon Westeros was the first to file these three lawsuits may be that these three lawsuits have relatively sufficient evidence to support them.

Among them, the victim Paul Lamart, the victim of the Illinois Auto Parts Factory, has been suing that newspaper over the years. However, before the Westeros system provided support, facing the powerful Hurst Group, Lamart, who was already alone after the company went bankrupt, had no chance of winning at all.

The professor also pointed out that Simon Westeros did not file a lawsuit directly with the Hurst Group for the false revelations he encountered during this period, but instead indirectly chose to support victims of vulnerable groups at the bottom of society. This decision was even more sophisticated.

If Westeros sued the Hurst Group for his own experience, it would be difficult to gain support and sympathy from the media and the public. Everyone would only watch the two major consortiums' forces confront each other with a lively mentality.

Now, in this indirect way, the case of the Hurst Group, especially Illinois, has not forgotten to attract hundreds of employees who were unemployed due to the bankruptcy of the auto parts factory. The plaintiffs in the other two cases are also from the bottom of society. Therefore, whether they are proactive or forced, the media and public opinion cannot show a harsh hostility, and the general public will only tend to express sympathy for them.

Suddenly becoming the defendant in three huge claims lawsuits, Hurst Group will certainly not remain indifferent.

On Monday afternoon, several evening newspapers under the Hearst Group slammed the three lawsuits on the front page for their ulterior motives under Simon Westeros, and accused Simon of using his huge financial resources to humiliate the freedom of the press that has lasted for more than two hundred years, and is a serious violation of the provisions of the First Amendment to ensure freedom of the press.

The Igrit Portal responded to the Hurst Group's accusations immediately.

Freedom of the press is never absolute freedom.

The Hurst Group used its so-called freedom to slander and slander other companies to cause huge property losses for taxpayers and hundreds of workers to lose their jobs. It used its so-called freedom to commit secondary harm to the victims of sexual assault cases, and used its so-called freedom to conduct false propaganda for real estate developers, resulting in double damage to citizens' property and personal health. This is not freedom.

This is a crime!

In addition to the direct counterattack article, the Igrit Portal immediately re-exposed the Hearst Group's previous abuse of news dominance in the form of a large-scale special topic.

At the end of the 19th century, in order to promote the sales of its own newspapers, the Hurst family used quite despicable means to provoke a war between the United States and Spain, which directly led to the unfortunate deaths of tens of thousands of people on both sides of the war.

In 1901, because the supporters of the Hurst family were defeated in the presidential election, the newspapers under the Hurst Group were furiously inciting the public to assassinate the president, which eventually led to the assassination of William McKinley, the 25th President of the United States. At that time, the newspapers published by the Hurst family inciting assassination were even hidden in the assassin's arms.

In 1909, because they did not obtain sufficient World War I news information, the Hurst Group simply organized a group of people to fabricate news out of thin air, causing a sensational "International News Agency fraud case".

The list goes from the 1890s to the 1890s.

All these.

Not to mention the 'yellow news' standard created by the Hurst Group has seriously interfered with the fairness and seriousness of news media around the world.

The fierce verbal battle continued until Tuesday, and the Egret Portal suddenly announced again that Daenerys Entertainment will join forces with Time Warner to re-released the Hollywood classic "Citizen Kane" in major theaters in North America on April 22.

As we all know, the prototype of the male lead in "Citizen Kane" is William Hurst, the first leader of the Hurst family.

The news article also specially extracted the chilling plot in "Citizen Kane" when he thought about it. Kane asked the reporters in Cuba to write some poems describing the tragic war scenes in the local area. The reporter reported that there was no war in the local area. Kevin replied to the telegram: "Dear Whit, you are responsible for writing poems, and I will provide the war."

No matter how hysterical and angry the Hurst family was, the summons from the three lawsuits were delivered to the head of the corresponding newspaper under the Hurst Group on the third day after the lawsuit was initiated.

At this point, the Hurst family, who had been arrogant for a century, finally realized how powerful they were facing, and finally realized how vulnerable the media weapons that had previously scared the political circles of the American mall were in the face of absolute overwhelming strength.

Out of the sad mentality of the rabbit's death and the fox's grief, other media groups in the United States have more or less objected to Simon's behavior, but they have learned from the Hurst family, and these voices are very cautious.

In politics, among the many candidates for Congress who are busy with the midterm elections, even David Meroth, who is supported by the Hurst family, chose to remain silent, but there are always many people who have made their debut.

Senator Craig Emes, a Democratic Wisconsin who has always been scrupulously sympathizing and supporting the plaintiffs in the three lawsuits, immediately pointed the finger at Simon, saying once again that although the young super rich man did the right thing for the time being, the huge wealth he owned still needs to be strictly restricted, otherwise it will inevitably cause potential huge damage to American society.

The Egret Portal simply did not respond to Craig Ames' remarks, after all, the response was to increase the popularity of the other party. The team responsible for sniping the far left congressman candidate in the Westeros system has quietly entered Wisconsin, which is the main force to attack the other party.

Since it is a 'litigation bombing' plan, of course there are more than three lawsuits against Hurst Group.

As some media analyzed, the reason why these three cases were chosen is mainly because the evidence was relatively conclusive, and the victims of the three lawsuits were relatively vulnerable. Even if they were not affirmed, most media did not dare to speak out and blame them.

In addition to the three lawsuits, the team in charge of Jennifer's uncle George Norman is also collecting and sorting out information on as many as 27 other potential lawsuits. Most of the lawsuit claims are not as eye-catching as the three that have been disclosed. It will be enough for the Hurst Group to be exhausted in the future.

Although no notice of recruitment was clearly issued, after the three lawsuits were launched, more victims of media under the Hurst Group contacted the Westeros system in hopes of obtaining legal aid.

In the next few years, even if all lawsuits were not won once, the huge litigation costs were enough to erode all the profits of the Hurst Group and further devour the foundation of the Hurst family.

What's more, it is impossible to win a lawsuit even if you can't win.

Simon's request to those top law firms is that if he wins the lawsuit, there will be continuous cooperation in the future. If he loses, there will be no future.

Therefore, the reality is that most lawsuits are actually very popular.

Even if the final compensation amount may not reach the litigation number, as long as any lawsuit is won, the huge claim will basically make a newspaper under the Hearst Group go bankrupt.

While the Hurst family was exhausted from dealing with a series of sudden lawsuits, the huge Westeros system was not disturbed much and still functioned as usual.

Wednesday, April 6.

When most of the media and public attention was on the litigation dispute between the Westeros and the Hurst Group, Daenerys Entertainment Group, one of the core companies of the Westeros system, formally submitted an IPO application to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Chapter completed!