Nick Rekieta & his wife have just been arrested on felony gun and drug charges
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I first heard of him because of Vic Mignogna.
God, I hope it's not true.
Everything regarding lawyers and law-tubers in Vic's case has been a huge fucking grift. I now have to wonder if any of them actually cared.
I haven't followed Rekieta since Kyle. Kinda sad seeing what happened after.
If it's not too much to ask can you explain this Vic stuff. I've seen it mentioned around, but have no idea what the criticism is.
All I know is that Nick got his friend Ty Beard hired with the GoFundMe money for Vic. Ty is indeed bearded and is kind of a Texas meme that unfortunately never played out in reality. He doesn't actually have experience with defamation law and came to court unprepared to contest the anti-SLAPP motion. The (possibly lib) judge ruled against them and that kind of sunk Vic's case. I'm probably missing a lot of details, but those are the broad strokes.
What makes this worse is he was holding weekly livestreams with Nick where they would use "Ty just lost the case again" as a punchline, because randos were saying that on Twitter, then he goes and actually loses the case.
The other tidbit that came out over time was that Ty Beard was actually Nick's mother's family lawyer managing the family trust money from the tens of millions of his grandfather's Texas oil wealth.
Nick hid the fact that he was a wealthy trust fund baby from his fans for years (and still doesn't acknowledge it explicitly), instead portraying himself as a working class, hardworking, God-fearing midwestern family man who grew up with financial troubles just like everyone else.
So Nick, being a lawyer himself at the time, recommended Vic hire his family's probate lawyer with zero expertise in defamation and without acknowledging how he knew Ty or his family's ties.
Then years later when things went to shit and Vic lost the case and hundreds of k in legal costs because of Ty's fuckups, Rekieta boldfaced lied in public that he didn't know Ty personally and never officially made the referral, despite his family's ties and streaming and grifting for years with Ty specifically off Vic's situation.
not to be that guy, but I said this years ago and everybody in places like KIA2 were falling all over themselves to defend Rekieta.