Hilarious: Assange Backers Lose Fortune in Bail Money
Leftists who put up the cash to get Wikileaks Creator Julian Assange out of jail have lost their bail money. These leftists include Michael Moore, Jemima Khan, Ken Loach and Felix Dennis. And they are out £200,000.
From the Guardian here:
Celebrity backers of Julian Assange have lost £200,000 in bail money they put up for the WikiLeaks founder, it has been confirmed.
At a hearing at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday, district judge Howard Riddle adjourned a further hearing until October to decide whether nine other backers should also lose their money, after Assange fled an attempt to extradite him to Sweden last June.
A £200,000 security pot given to the court before Assange was bailed – and believed to have been paid into by high-profile backers, including Jemima Khan, film directors Ken Loach and Michael Moore, and millionaire publisher Felix Dennis – had been forfeited at an earlier hearing in July.
Assange skipped bail in June and took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in Knightsbridge, London, in defiance of an order to have him extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape. He has claimed the Swedish extradition request is a ruse to facilitate his onward extradition the US, where he could face the death penalty.
Journalist Phillip Knightley, Caroline Evans – the wife of former Labour minister Lord Evans – Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir John Sulston and Frontline Club founder Vaughan Smith, who also allowed Assange to stay with him at his Norfolk mansion during extradition proceedings, were among those who pledged sureties – a promise to pay the court – of £20,000 each. All nine of those listed in Tuesday’s hearing had pledged a total of £140,000. All in all, Assange’s backers could lose £340,000.
It is quite telling that Julian Assange has betrayed everyone now, including his own supporters. I think one of those whackjob leftists should hire Dog the Bounty Hunter to go into the embassy and drag his scrawny albino rapist ass out of there. It sure would make for some great TV!
