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Jilly_in_VA

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Wed Nov 30, 2022, 02:00 PM Nov 2022

QAnon influencer's 'groomer' past shaken loose by ill-conceived defamation suit against newspaper

Court records reveal a QAnon influencer has a criminal past involving a sexual relationship with a minor.

Conspiracy theorist Phil Godlewski filed a defamation suit against the Scranton Times-Tribune that inadvertently outed him as the sort of "groomer" that fellow QAnon adherents are purportedly worried about, and the newspaper has filed a new motion that claims he perjured himself and broke other courtroom rules, reported The Daily Beast.

The Pennsylvania-based Godlewski has more than 600,000 followers on the right-wing social media app Telegram and another 156,000 subscribers on the alternative video platform Rumble, and he bought a $1.7 million house earlier this year with money he made directing his fans to sign up for multilevel marketing schemes and other financial arrangements.

But the conspiracy theorist pleaded guilty more than a decade ago to corruption of a minor and sentenced to three months under house arrest after he was indicted on a variety of charges related to an alleged sexual relationship with a girl he met when she was a 15-year-old high school freshman and he was a 25-year-old high school baseball coach.

https://www.rawstory.com/phil-godlewski-pennsylvania/

Be sure your sins will find you out. That's what my grandfather used to say.

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QAnon influencer's 'groomer' past shaken loose by ill-conceived defamation suit against newspaper (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Nov 2022 OP
Oscar Wilde, "never sue for slander, they might prove it on you" Walleye Nov 2022 #1
Discovery's a bitch. n/t Hela Nov 2022 #2
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