Jerry Falwell, Jr. is being sued by the school his father founded. Liberty University has filed a $ 10 million complaint against its former president.
“The new breach of contract and fiduciary lawsuit alleges that Mr. Falwell withheld scandalous and potentially harmful information from the Liberty Board of Trustees while negotiating a generous new contract for himself on false pretenses in 2019. According to the New York Times, Mr. Falwell also failed to disclose or address “his personal impairment from alcohol”.
However, according to the Talking Points memo, which published the entire complaint, the lawsuit is far more scandalous.
“The evangelical institution alleges in the lawsuit filed with the Lynchburg Circuit Court in Virginia that Falwell kept his relationship with Giancarlo Granda secret from the university.”
“If the Liberty Executive Committee had known in 2018 and 2019 that Granda was trying to blackmail Falwell Jr. in order to harm Liberty, and had known the full details of Granda’s blackmailing of Falwell Jr., it would have The executive committee refrained from it in the employment contract 2019 “, it says in the lawsuit.
“The actions of Falwell Jr. and Granda have violated Liberty’s enrollment, impacted the donor base, disrupted faculty, enabled the 2019 employment contract that adversely affected Liberty’s interests, and damaged Liberty’s reputation,” it said in the lawsuit.
The suit adds that “Granda had a lot of information that could deeply harm Falwell Jr. in the eyes of the evangelical community.”
Falwell Jr.’s social media posts are notorious, and some are included in the lawsuit.
In August 2020, before leaving Liberty, Falwell said his wife had an extramarital relationship with the man identified as Giancarlo Granda.
“Becki had an inappropriately personal relationship with this person that I wasn’t a part of – it was still very annoying to learn about it,” claimed Falwell.
But Granda responded by accusing Falwell of being involved in that relationship.
“Jerry enjoyed watching,” claimed Granda.
This is breaking news and a developing story.
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