Sidney Powell ordered financial documents to be made available to Dominion

by Junna Base November 10, 2024

FILE – Sidney Powell, an attorney for former President Donald Trump, leaves federal court in Washington on June 24, 2021. Trump-allied lawyer Sidney Powell and others hired a computer forensics team to copy data and software on voting machines in Coffee County. about 200 miles southeast of Atlanta, according to invoices, emails, security videos and witness statements prepared in response to subpoenas in a long-running legal dispute (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File).

So-called “Kraken” attorney Sidney Powell was ordered to provide Dominion Voting Systems with various and material documents in a discovery order issued by a federal court on Friday.

In that case, the voting machine company filed the first lawsuit against Powell in January 2021 – claiming that the Texas-based attorney defamed the company by claiming they “rigged the election, Dominion was founded in Venezuela to manipulate elections.” for Hugo Chávez, and that Dominion bribed Georgian officials for a no-bid contract.”

Since then, several additional plaintiffs, counterclaimants, defendants, and plaintiffs have filed motions in no fewer than eight related cases. Along the way, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani were also sued. Another voting machine manufacturer, Smartmatic, also filed some lawsuits.

As the procedural nature of the matter became increasingly complex, complicated and unwieldy, the D.C. District Court found in March of this year that various parties and cases had “conspired and/or voluntarily coordinated to make disclosures in connection with this litigation.”

There have been disputes over the discovery between Powell and Dominion for some time.

In November 2023, Powell complained that Dominion was engaging in “document dumping,” thereby undermining the company’s “obligation to review its documents for relevance to this lawsuit or to produce them in a manner that Powell can reasonably determine which documents.” to respond to their disclosure requests.”

The company fired back. In a filing, they insisted that the five defendants’ 763 different document requests were being processed efficiently at this time. The company shrugged off objections from Powell and others that they declined to conduct a “relevance” check and a “secondary responsiveness check.”

Dominion’s take on the discovery continued:

Furthermore, contrary to defendants’ arguments, it is virtually unnecessary for defendants to examine all documents to find the documents they want. This is not the 1980s. The defendants do not check the documents individually, but manually. Defendants load them into their own databases, and because Dominion has appropriately provided extensive metadata that allows defendants to identify exactly the documents they want – using their own search terms, by time period, author, recipients, attachments, and all sorts of other criteria – your complaints ring hollow.

Fast forward to this summer. Then the case, originally before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, was transferred to Judge Moxila A. Upadhyaya.

A disclosure hearing was held in early October.

Now Powell has been ordered to respond to multiple inquiries from Dominion on various topics.

“Defendants Sidney Powell and Powell PC are hereby ORDERED to produce any requested documents based on a theory other than punitive damages, such as actual malice,” the court’s order states.

In other words, the court has ordered the pro-Donald Trump attorney to produce certain documents that could support the notion that she intentionally lied about Dominion when she made the aforementioned false claims about the company after the 2020 election.

The court also ordered Powell to provide detailed financial details.

From the order in detail:

[T]The Powell parties are also directed to submit documents containing the following additional specifications:

The Powell Parties must provide the maximum amount of Ms. Powell’s income for each of the requested years.

The Powell Parties must also provide financial records sufficient to show profits and losses, with the right to redact only information that is obviously unrelated to this lawsuit (e.g., Social Security). The parties meet and discuss a redaction process.

Powell was ordered to comply with the court’s orders by December 6.

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