Politician Defamed Regarding Favors For Campaign Contributions:  Barket Gets Verdict in His Favor

When an upstate New York politician lost an election, he sued a man for spreading lies about him prior to the election. The allegations were that the politician voted for bills in the Legislature that were backed by his campaign's contributors.

Bruce Barket was brought in to conduct the trial. He sized up the legal claims and the evidence, shifted the strategy previously employed by other lawyers, and cleared through the brush of legal issues and distractions. After re-arranging the legal claims, he proceeded to trial.

While the evidence revealed that the client did indeed vote for legislation favored by those who paid him campaign contributions, Barket's cross examination of the Defendant and other tactics employed by him persuaded the jury to vote in the client's favor, declaring that he was defamed by false statements. The case then settled for an undisclosed sum.