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Moto media wants absolutely nothing to do with bringing this kind of info to light.
Brian is exhibit A in how this sport chews up and spits out the riders.
NASCAR just went through a major antitrust lawsuit and their media sphere had no problem covering it. Some outlets (like the NASCAR version of Racer X) were more sympathetic to the France family than others, but by and large the coverage was factual.
It happened at a race. About the injury of a promising young racer. How is it not relevant?
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What is the best way to follow this? Is here someone who has a professional account on PACER, I want to write about it and send a french version to my companion.
In the past, I’ve used pacermonitor.com. They charge like $0.10 per page, max $3 per document. I think I had to prepay $5-10 at a time.
I remember a thread in non moto that got very few if any comments on it. I believe it was about this:
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/may/08/heirs-of-famous-circus-hardly-under-one-tent/
I would assume once the case is finished there will be some sort of coverage on it.
Would be expected but I would be surprised. Then again I didn’t think Prado would podium a SX so maybe ‘26 is the year of the surprise
Good god.. That story is about the owners of Feld? 😬
I now believe everything Cooksie says... haha. 🤣
But FOR REAL... this is MESSED up. CIA Jewish Mafia money laundering and murder? WTF are we supporting?
From the link above... You have to read it all. crazy.
Kenneth Feld has gone to great lengths to protect the family’s privacy; he even hired a prominent former top CIA covert operative to run a secret eight-year operation to spy on and divert an author who wanted to write a family history. The author’s revelations included Irvin Feld’s homosexuality, his wife’s suicide and his children’s long-running feud.
Neither sibling is a stranger to civil litigation. Karen Feld has also sued a man she was in an auto accident with and her former private nurse, who countersued alleging Karen Feld was abusive. Karen Feld tried but failed to persuade Judge Huvelle to bar evidence of her nurse’s suit and the airport and concert incidents from being introduced in this case.
Kenneth Feld has been a defendant before, too. His former right-hand man, Charles Smith, sued after he was fired as a Feld Entertainment executive and eventually reached a settlement. The case revealed Feld’s management of a multiyear, multimillion-dollar plot against writer Jan Pottker, who had written a magazine article on the Felds in 1990.
Feld responded to the article by hiring former top CIA operative Clair George to investigate Pottker. George was fired as the head of CIA covert operations after being convicted of lying to a congressional committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair. George was pardoned by President George H.W. Bush on Christmas Eve 1992 and became a consultant.
As part of George’s spying mission for Kenneth Feld, he obtained an outline of a biography of the Feld family that Pottker was writing, according to court documents. George oversaw a scheme to spy on Pottker and arrange to secretly fund other writing projects to divert her from the Feld book. George dispatched an associate to one of her appearances who offered assistance on her projects and successfully inserted himself into Pottker’s life for eight years as an editor and confidant, while secretly sending Feld written reports on her activities.
George’s associate even helped Pottker get a contract for a book about another wealthy family, which controls the Mars chocolate candy business, to keep her too busy to pursue her book on the Felds. When Pottker learned of the spy plot from the Smith suit, she sued Feld as well and the litigation lasted nine years before ending in a confidential settlement.
George also revealed that Feld authorized spying on critics of the circus, in particular animal rights groups that alleged the animals were abused. The Performing Animal Welfare Society and People for the Ethical Treatment sued Feld, too. His company also went on trial on allegations from animal activists that it abuses its elephants, but the case was dismissed without a ruling on the merits.
“Just as he’s treated animals cruelly, he treated people cruelly in some cases,” Karen Feld said in the interview at her Georgetown home, with her dog Campari on her lap. “And I think I’m one of them.”
Judge Huvelle rejected Karen Feld’s request to introduce evidence of the covert operations in her suit to demonstrate what her brother is capable of. The judge also agreed with Kenneth Feld that there should be no testimony about anyone’s sexual orientation or about his sister’s allegations that he may be a member of a “Jewish mafia” involved in money laundering and murder.
I wonder if the silence from AMA/Feld regarding the slow response to Barcia's accident last weekend has anything to do with this trial going on? Could easily be used against them here.
What exactly are you looking for? Case was filed in 2022 and went to trial this week. You’re looking at thousands of pages of court filings in the interim. No verdict yet as far as I can tell.
“Just as he’s treated animals cruelly, he treated people cruelly in some cases,”
And the industry media has to sniff these guys asses 24/7 and be a nice puppy to get a media pass for the events. Sound like fun 😆.
I don't' read every issue of Racerx, but I am guessing at the time they did cover it. But as far as the courts are concerned that's seems like an entirely different matter that's not on them to keep up with. Maybe when it's all said in done , I don't know.
another world class failure by our moto-media to cover what SHOULD BE a very high profile legal case with profound impacts on our sport. Stories like this are how real reform happen. If Moreau's team can expose serious failures in Feld/AMA's health and safety protocols, the exposure of those by our moto-media (by covering the trial) COULD force A-Stars/Feld/AMA to make serious changes that COULD seriously improve rider safety.
All of this is possible, but our media is so deep in the pockets of AMA/FELD, they are allowing this entire story to be swept under the rug. What a disappointment.
There’s a huge hole in the media market in moto IMO. Almost everyone focuses on the racing and almost none on the business side. This story, the whole KTM/Bajaj thing, Mirtl’s situation etc.
agreed. they focus on what they're TOLD to focus on. Hell, this Barcia incident is GLARING and nobody is posting their in-depth interview with Doc B. Nobody is asking FELD any questions. Nada. Silence. Barcia could have been not breathing and would be DEAD because of this, but our media is so busy fist-bumping the riders and putting out their clean little PR "summaries" after the races that they refuse to speak about the damn elephant in the room.
I don't know, maybe someone to pay for the court documents, read through them, and publish the findings alongside some analysis. Maybe an interview with a legal expert regarding the merits of the case. You know, the same as every other lawsuit.
Pit Row
This story is WILD. I thought the Feld/CIA thing was Cooksey nonsense, but turns out it has been proven in court and reported in multiple places:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a27363/the-craziest-circus-story-you-will-ever-read/
Witness testimonials is something that would be interesting. How looks everyone back to that event.
agreed. this isn't rocket science. You have plenty of people that could comment on this story, and the media COULD be reviewing the details and then sharing them with their audience...like how media works in other sports.
The Moreau family (I assume) would take some pride in knowing that their lawsuit based on Brian's tragic injury helped cause significant improvement in safety and perhaps saves some other kid's life...instead we get a media blackout. Disgusting, honestly.
Don't be so quick to put NASCAR reporting on a pedestal. There was a lot of criticism directed to the Daytona Beach News Journal for giving almost no coverage at all.
the fact that there was criticism at ALL should tell you there's a higher expectation. Us moto folks are just left screaming into the void...notice how ML and Lewis barely ever comment when these criticisms are made?
One hometown paper vs. everyone from Bob Pockrass to NASCAR.com? I agree that the News Journal's lack of coverage is ridiculous, it'd be like the Indy Star not covering the CART/IRL split, but almost the entirety of motorsports media covered the NASCAR lawsuit. Due to MJ's involvement, a lot of sports and even traditional news media provided some coverage.
Yes NASCAR and that lawsuit are orders of magnitude larger than SX/Feld and this lawsuit, so perhaps expecting a moto journalist to post live updates from the courtroom or during recess is a stretch. But had I not bumped this thread, 99% of the people here wouldn't even know that the case was this week. I don't think that expecting someone to make mention of the case somewhere is that unreasonable.
Totally understand I was just mentioning it because the France family has quite a bit of pull locally and can control the narrative. NASCAR is a much bigger sport so they can't control national stuff especially if a guy like MJ is involved.
WTF are we supporting?’ feels a little selective. It’s interesting how outrage suddenly shows up here, while people are perfectly comfortable backing far bigger and uglier stuff without blinking. If FELD is the hill we’re choosing to die on, let’s at least be honest about the rest, like a pedo conman that is running things.
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
Transcripts of deposition and trial testimony are not uploaded to PACER. The various motions, responses and orders may have reference to certain testimony but not long form.
One interesting thing I found in a quick skim is the court ruled the release Moreau signed was valid thus waiving any claims up to and including ordinary negligence. The jury will have to find gross negligence to hold the any or all of the defendants liable.
Or it could lead to Feld/AMA becoming uninsurable and Supercross ceasing to exist.
We're on the verge of losing the ability to get insurance for local racing as it is, putting shit like this in the spotlight isn't going to help that.
Its a civil suit between 2 private parties. Their lawyers surely have told them to not talk to anyone about the case. Do we know that media hasn't reached out at all and just got an answer of "absolutely not"?
What do they do if no one will talk?
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