An Arizona state judge on Thursday ordered that the Arizona “audit” contractor Cyber Ninjas pay $50,000 in fines every day until it provided documents that the Arizona Republic newspaper had successfully sought in a public records request.
“I’m smiling because I’m thinking of the accusations against me that you made in the motion to recuse me for cause that you did not appeal,” Hannah responded. “Where you said I’m biased against conservatives and, on information and belief, a Democrat. I smile every time I think about it because I’m not a Democrat.”
“I’m smiling, but I’m very fooking furious.”
Wait…can they avoid the $50K/day fine by shutting down?
Those eyes are not smiling eyes.
Shorter CyberNinjas - “We can’t lose if we quit the game before it’s over!”
“Cyber Ninjas Says It’s Shutting Down.”
Damn, that’s gonna increase this month’s unemployment numbers by…(checks notes)…one.
They demonstrate this degree of high profile contempt for a court’s orders and yet, people get arrested for stealing a can of soup and unpaid parking tickets. Time to put these guys into a nice small room for as long as it takes to concentrate on some possibility thinking. That, and also to tell all they know.
So it was all about money, not truth.
It was about truth in the same way that wolves are about sheep.
(Drunk incompetent wolves, but still wolves.)
All they had to do was turn records over to a newspaper which they refused to do. As the article says…
"An Arizona state judge on Thursday ordered that the Arizona “audit” contractor Cyber Ninjas pay $50,000 in fines every day until it provided documents that the Arizona Republic newspaper had successfully sought in a public records request. "
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I never thought of what the Cyber Ninjas were up to as anything other than a “fraudit”, not an audit
Just look at the rat nest of cable on the floor in that photo
Post Office Boxes
Lots of people use them because there are lots of Porch Pirates out there who steal mail. And have you ever seen the mail room lobby of a lesser-income apartment building?
I can just imagine a Republican operative following the mailman/woman and lifting the ballots sent from the local election office.
So even the goober contractors cannot win in court. Add that to the 60+ challenges to the election that trump attempted which all failed in court. The trump edifice is a mirage…an empty idea without substance. It’s a Ponzi pyramid scheme bent only on grifitng anywhere it can. As Ms Cheney very rightly said… donald trump should never ever be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office again…ever.
I would say that there are multiple Cyber Ninjas directors and officers currently reviewing the company’s D&O liability insurance policy. And they’re probably not liking what they’re seeing.
Great article here
The $50,000 daily fine imposed by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah far exceeds the $1,000 levy suggested by a lawyer for The Arizona Republic newspaper, which filed the public records lawsuit in 2020. Hannah said the lower amount would be “grossly insufficient” to coerce Cyber Ninjas to comply with his orders.
He looks like every Bond villain as they send some clueless red-shirt investor off to the shark tank / floor-less elevator / open-air helicopter after they ask to be let out of the malevolent scheme being presented.
“Hans, will you kindly see that Mr. Smithers is taken care of. He no longer wants to be part of my brilliant plan.”
‘Cyber Ninjas’ is the sort of name a 12-year-old boy would choose for his web development business. Who could take these bozos seriously?
Oh, yeah, republicans could.
Siri? Is it a good idea to annoy a judge?
The demise of Cyber Ninjas and another case of “everything trump touches…dies” … or the corpse ends up in court.
You know, I feel we’ve exhausted the humorous possibilities of the “not sending their best” meme, so I’ll just +1 that because I’ve always felt it was just a terrible idea to make a judge mad at you. It’s like arguing with a cop, or really about 99 percent of authority figures. Typically no good comes of it. “Your honor, we’d like you to impose a fine of one thousand dollars every day until the records are turned over.” “Make it fifty thousand.” “That will be acceptable too.” 
