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Editor’s note: Click here to read the letter published in Saturday’s edition to which Mark Hall is responding.
Dear Editor:
Let’s begin with some education. Libel is a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation – a written defamation. Just because it’s in a letter to the editor doesn’t excuse the person from personal liability.
Facts are amazing in that with just a little effort, which was clearly not done here, you can prove or disprove your claim.
Ms. Fisher wrote: “Most recently, he was voted off his neighborhood H.O.A. board position.”
FALSE – I am not now or have ever been a member of my H.O.A. Board. Never ran for it, have never served on it, and obviously was never voted off it. Had Ms. Fisher taken two minutes to ask anyone with knowledge it would be easily verified. She could have called the property management company Ardsley Management and verified. (LIBELOUS)
Ms. Fisher wrote: “Looking into his businesses, does he have over 20 registered active and defunct businesses and shell companies with several lawsuits attached to them?”
Facts again rule the day. I’ve started over 30 companies. I have also closed over 25 businesses. Ms. Fisher doesn’t explain...
A front-page article with the byline of veteran New York Times opinion writer Nicholas Kristof is the latest poisonous example of what I call the NGO “halo effect.” Headlined “The Silence That Mee...