In the ongoing case in United States federal court of Kurdish Victims Fund versus Kurdistan Regional Government, Masoud Barzani, Masrour Barzani, Waysi Barzani, and Barzani family members and others, as of this broadcast only one legal motion has been filed with the court by the Barzani lawyers. 

In that motion to the court. the Barzani’s high-priced, high-profile Washington attorneys recklessly and carelessly attacked plaintiff Maki Revend – ruthlessly, dishonestly, and unfairly.  Mr. Revend is one of the plaintiffs in this historic case.  He is a seasoned and widely-respected Kurdish investigative reporter who courageously exposes political and commercial corruption and criminality in Kurdistan.  KVF lawyers informed the judge that this wild attorney motion of character assassination and deliberate falsehoods and reckless disregard for the truth is consistent with the pervasive and continuing intimidation and harassment tactics and deceit orchestrated by Masoud Barzani, Masrour Barzani, Waysi Barzani, and Barzani family members and agents.  The KVF also informed the judge thisoften includes physical and psychological abuse, humiliation, rape, kidnapping, torture, starvation, isolation, forced confessions, and murder.  All of this the KVF has pointed out to the U.S. courts in significant detail.

The Kurdish Victims Fund has informed the court, and also Members of the United States Congress and United States government agencies, that the United Nations Human Rights Council has documented arbitrary arrests by Kurdish security forces and in some cases where citizens were forcibly disappeared, retaliatory attacks, and human rights violations, including death in detention.Extensively documented evidence which will be presented by KVF at the trial confirms the KDP, under the command and direction of Masrour Barzani, and his agents and representatives, commonly use false propaganda and purposefully misrepresent the facts.

In a weak and ineffectiveand deliberate effort to discredit this case in this court, Barzani lawyers intentionally defamed and maligned Mr. Revend.  This is a deceptive attempt at misleading the United States federal court by recklessly making factually untrue and entirely fictitious statements to mislead or influence the judge.  That may work in Barzani-controlled Kurdistan courts, but it does not work in United States courts.

And Barzani’s and their lawyers will pay a penalty,as this unlawful offense has now been added as yet another cause of action in the case before the United States District Court in Washington, DC.  The United States Supreme Court has declared that attorneys have an absolute duty not to mislead, and that such behavior by an attorney in a court of law has consequences.

As the Kurdish Victims Fund attorneys have declared to the American federal court, Barzani attorney Joe Reeder knowingly presented false statements and demonstrated an appalling and tragic absence of credibility.  With a deliberate disregard for the truth, Barzani lawyers attempted to mislead the court, and did not conform to the code of legal ethics.

This objectionable behavior perpetuates the Barzani’s corrupt and continuous pattern of diverting attention away from their criminal behavior and misconduct and acting with a pervasive pattern of deliberate indifference to the law.  Unlike the Barzani controlled courts of Kurdistan, it will not be acceptedby a United States federal judge.

         In the United States, it is against the law to make dishonest public statements about an individual, as the Barzani attorneys have done in this case.These attacks on Maki Revendbefore a United States Judge are unprecedented and unfounded. These attacks by Barzani lawyers are one hundred percent false, and will not influence the Kurdish Victims Fund or the rulings of the United States federal court.

         In Kurdistan, the Barzani regime may verbally attack individuals even when the attacks are untruthful, and they may tell lies about those who oppose their corruption.  In the United States, that is very clearly against the law and is not tolerated by the United States courts.
         The Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise has an extensively documented history of lying – to the Kurdish people, to the Iraq central government, to the media, to American universities, to the United States Government, and to other nation governments.  The KVF has assembled a large, impressive, and growing list of witnesses, including very senior U.S. Government officials, intelligence officers, foreign diplomats, bank executives, title company managers, and Barzani insiders,who they intend to call as witnesses at trial who will testify in public courtas to this continuing pattern of orchestrated deception and dishonesty.

         In the United States, you cannot just slander someone, defame them, lie about them.  In U.S. law this constitutes defamation.  The United States Supreme Court stated that “society has a pervasive and strong interest in preventing and redressing attacks upon reputation.”  The court in this case will now also judge this dishonesty, as part of the hundreds of federal crimes alleged to have been committed worldwide by the Barzani Continuing Criminal Enterprise.

         One of America’s original Founders once said that defamation is the revenge of a coward.So it now appears to also be in this case.