MAGA Lawyer Lin Wood is Facing a Lawsuit Avalanche
A pro-Trump lawyer who helped architect the Stop The Steal movement has been fined $5,000 for contempt of court, while legal pressures mount against him in at least three other cases.
L. Lin Wood became a key promoter of election fraud myths shortly after the 2020 presidential election and helped Donald Trump’s team unsuccessfully challenge the election results in court. Since those failed challenges, Wood has faced his own legal trouble. A trio of former colleagues sued him in Georgia, accusing him of bizarre behavior and breach of contract. The Georgia Bar held a disciplinary trial for Wood in May while it weighs whether to disbar him. Earlier that month, a Michigan attorney regulatory agency filed a misconduct case against Wood and colleagues for their election fraud lawsuits. And this month, a former ally in the QAnon world filed suit against Wood, accusing him of defamation.
Wood, a bombastic celebrity attorney, rose to fame when he defended Richard Jewell, a security guard wrongly suspected in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing. Wood later represented prominent conservatives like Herman Cain and Marjorie Taylor Greene, before entering Trump’s legal orbit during the 2020 election and its aftermath.