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Replies to post #3379 on Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc (OMEX)
Vexari
07/16/22 10:42 PM
#3380 RE: Steven1f #3379
Meson repeatedly refers to the negative ruling in the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes (Black Swan) case in an effort to undermine management's credibility. In particular, Morris pays heed to a harsh rebuke the company received at the hands of Judge Steven Merryday in Merryday's September 2013 ruling. Yet, Morris fails to disclose a couple crucial facts that occurred around this case which cast doubt on the impartiality of the US government, and its agents, when it comes to the case of the Black Swan. First, diplomatic cables made public by Wikileaks appear to show that the US government offered to surreptitiously help Spain in its case against OMEX. The US gave Spain's lawyers special assistance and access to confidential information regarding OMEX in exchange for Spain's help in reclaiming a valuable painting held in Spain, obtained by the Nazi party in World War II, and claimed by a US citizen. Second, the Executive Branch of the US government filed an amicus brief in the Black Swan case, "changing its previous position and supporting Spain in the "Black Swan" case by setting forth a re-interpretation of the language in the Sunken Military Craft Act (SMCA) to allow government owned vessels on commercial missions to enjoy sovereign immunity." (Odyssey website) When the federal government secretly moves to cut deals with a foreign nation at the expense of OMEX, changes the rules of the game on salvaging government owned ships on commercial missions during the trial, files an amicus brief in the case, and sends DOJ attorneys to the trial in an effort to support the other side, you know the deck is stacked against the firm. It would not take much imagination at all to suspect that active federal government involvement in this case at very high levels might influence the case's tone.