139 rows · Victor Joseph Mignogna (/ m ɪ n ˈ j ɒ n ə /; born 1962 or 1963) is an American voice actor and musician known for his voice-over work in the English dubs of Japanese anime shows, such as Edward Elric from the Fullmetal Alchemist series, which he earned the American Anime Award for Best Actor in 2007. Other animation roles include Broly from the Dragon Ball films, …
One of the defense's key points in court was to tie Mignogna to Nick Rekieta, the Minnesota lawyer who created a GoFundMe page for Mignogna's legal funds and who has been very aggressive on YouTube towards the defendants, including stating, “I think they’re terrible people and I want to see them ground into dust.”
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· Nick Rekieta of Rekieta Law and the host of the YouTube channel of the same name launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for Vic Mignogna’s legal defense fees. The Go Fund Me comes after Vic Mignogna accused of sexual misconduct by a number of individuals. Following these allegations Mignogna was replaced by both Rooster Teeth and Funimation for …
Funimation and Rooster Teeth cut ties with the Mignogna, famous for roles in Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Ball Z, Ouran Host Club and RWBY, after several fans and other voice actors accused him of sexual misconduct. Rumors have swirled around Mignogna for years among older anime fans, yet many others either didn't believe or refused to believe the accusations. Thus, an ugly conflict broke out.
Rekeita also spread rumors that voice actors Christopher Sabat and Ron Toye (one of the people being sued), intending to defame them. The evidence for these claims rarely held up under scrutiny, especially when people close to the matter spoke out.
Mignogna, or, more specifically, those around him, could have been better served if he kept quiet and waited for the heat to die down. By launching this poorly planned, ineffective lawsuit, he made himself even more of a pariah. His defenders, ironically, made him even more hated, by association.
While much of this has to do with the strong performance of the defense's legal team, a lot of blame can be placed on the pitiful performance of the plaintiff. Mignogna, for one, never showed up to court.
These distractions served only to try and defame those who criticized Mignogna, but didn't disprove anything he was accused of. Neither did these claims support Mignogna's lawsuit. They only hurt more people. All of these claims, one thrown out after the other, were a desperate attempt to bring down Mignogna's accusers.
While the lawsuit is still ongoing (all charges against Marchi were dismissed, while most charges against the rest were dismissed), it seems unlikely Mignogna will win. You have to wonder why Beard, with apparently no real evidence, would want to keep pushing it.
Nick Rekieta of Rekieta Law and the host of the YouTube channel of the same name launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for Vic Mignogna’s legal defense fees.
Mignogna has made multiple statements denying the allegations. He first denied the allegations on Twitter and then would deny them again at an appearance at Bak-Anime 2019. Mignogna would also be disinvited from a number of conventions.
Rekieta does state that he is not representing Vic Mignogna.
If any of you have been following the recent case with Vic Mignogna, he has been kicked out of Funimation and disbarred from producing things with certain other actors after it was found that he was sexually harassing other coworkers and fans. Naturally the fine anime community has taken sides in the situation with many of them telling Vic to get a lawyer to "prove his innocence" against the evil Monica Rial and others. Vic hired lawyers and bullies like Ty Beard and Rekieta who have been doing their, well let's say their best, to harass others from actors to followers of #KickVic. And those who support Vic with the #IStandWithVic hashtag have been nothing but horrible lying people who refuse to accept that Vic is in the wrong and that everyone is afraid of them. They've also begun to accuse the #KickVic people of being aligned with ANTIFA. Sadly this vocal community has been bringing more followers in with Vic's lawyer clearly thinking that Vic will win this lawsuit. You can find it all in much better detail here in the thread made by Sibersk Esto
Of course Vic's fans aren't having it and continue to harass people and try to argue with these lawyers thinking that they're "not being fair to Vic".
And it goes on! Anime/Vic fans obviously know more than a certified lawyer about lawyering!
They certainly didn't watch dubs, or even cared about Vic was until it became another front on the culture war. I mean Vic's biggest fans before all this were teenaged girls, so yeah it's all about sticking it to libs.