Nick Rekieta & his wife have just been arrested on felony gun and drug charges
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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.
He claimed that he never knew Ty and doesn't know him currently? Really?
Nick went into total lying weasel denial mode after Vic & Ty lost their final appeal because of a clerical filing blunder by Beard's office.
He pretended to have never Beard/had no personal relationship with Beard prior to Mignogna hiring him as counsel despite there being livestream evidence with Beard on stream as evidence to the contrary.
He also tried to retcon his recommendation to Vic to hire Beard as his counsel after the disastrous result. He tried to pretend he simply made a suggestion in passing instead of a personal referral/recommendation and that hiring of Ty's office was completely of Vic's own choosing.
I'm sure there's clips of Nick washing his hands on the whole thing after the disastrous ruling on KF and clip channels, but it's so hard to search the backcatalog of Nick lore.
It's very similar to Nick trying to gaslight his old fans that "Rekieta Law was never a law channel" 18 months ago whenever he was challenged why he stopped covering trials or serious legal happenings. Instead pretending his content had never changed when it slipped in to getting sloppy drunk nightly while blabbering on about sex toys and thinly veiled homosexual innuendo.
Edit: The clips I went back and watched weren't as egregious/explicit as I remembered.
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/nicholas-robert-rekieta-rekieta-law-nickrekieta.53871/post-14685784
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/nicholas-robert-rekieta-rekieta-law-nickrekieta.53871/post-14689553
Nevertheless, the point stands that Nick acted as a slimy, unaccountable weasel when the Vic case went bad.
Instead of acknowledging his role in personally profiting off Vic's misfortune and personally recommending an incompetent and unqualified attorney (while being disingenuous about his own family wealth and personal connections behind the referral), Nick gaslit after it was all said and done that "I hardly knew the man" and that "Vic made his own choices, I wasn't his lawyer".