A pro-Trump firm that carried out an audit of 2020 Presidential Election ballots in Arizona is shutting down after threats of fines over its allegedly error-strewn recount.
Florida-based Cyber Ninjas, which was launched in 2013, has fired all of its employees, which the company's LinkedIn page said was between two and 10.
'Cyber Ninjas is shutting down. All employees have been let go,' Rod Thomson, the company's representative, said Thursday.
This comes after Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Hannah said he would levy a $50,000 fine for each day Cyber Ninjas refused to hand over documents relating to the audit, which it is claimed contains at least 80 misleading or false claims.
A local newspaper, the Arizona Republic, filed a public records request, with Cyber Ninja failing to comply with its legal duty to do so, resulting in the threat of the $350,000-a-week fines.
Jack Wilenchik, a lawyer for Cyber Ninjas, has not yet responded to media requests for comment.
The report from election officials in Maricopa includes a record of nearly 80 misleading or false claims made by Cyber Ninjas in their audit.
'Truth is truth. Numbers are numbers,' Arizona Senate President Karen Fann said at the time.
Those same Republicans had hired Cyber Ninjas to do the review of ballots in Maricopa, the state's largest county in terms of population.
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