Yet Another Brewer Lawsuit

We can’t find a link, but it’s “NRA and Wayne LaPierre vs. Mark Dycio and Law Offices of Mark R. Dycio,” No. 2022001960, filed in the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, on February 11.

Dycio is an attorney who appeared in Ackerman’s lawsuit on their behalf. In the past he’d done work for LaPierre. Brewer challenged his appearing for Ackerman, and he said that he’d not represented NRA (probably meaning that he represented LaPierre personally, not the organization, and one claim was that he’d represented LaPierre on his big-money employment contract with NRA). The case settled on the eve of trial (meaning the legal fees kept piling up until the last moment).

That’s over now, so we suppose Brewer didn’t want to let his cash flow reduce, so now he sues this Dycio guy for damages. The suit, and discovery, should be a hoot.

Let’s see — para. 14 says Dycio provided legal services since 2013 and the retainder letter says that the clients are NRA and Wayne LaPierre “in his individual capacity.” Yet the NRA paid all the fees?

Para. 16, in Feb and March 2018 he attended NRA meetings (?) and had a meeting “with one of the NRA’s top fundraisers,” then a meeting with Woody Phillips. Para. 18, he solicited LaPierre to hire him as NRA counsel for the Lockton lawsuit, and LaPierre hired him to review the case.

Para. 24, Dycio billed NRA $13,725 for legal services in September 2018. In December 2018 he sent an invoide for $23,415.

Footnote 1 refers to what sounds like a 2019 court ruling that Dycio had been paid by the NRA “hundreds of thousands of dollars . . . It has recently become known that Defendants submitted invoices for legal work that was never performed.”

Para 32, Tony Makris, of Ackerman, introduced Dycio to LaPierre.

Para 39, in April, 2019, LaPierre wrote Dycio, referring to him as “a trusted friend” and saying “Susan and I were personally offended to learn of this development.”

Para. 40, Dycio withdraws from representing Ackerman on April 22, 2019. (Almost three years ago. We wonder what the statute of limitations is in Virginia? A quick Google says it’s two years for a personal injury. Oops!)

Para. 49, in September 2019 Dycio sued NRA on behalf of Under Wild Skies (linked to Ackerman and run by Tony Makris). The LaPierres had appeared in UWS’s “shoots” (note the plural).

Para. 50, Dycio had billed the NRA over $300,000.

Para. 63, “Although the (retainder) contract was never signed, over the course of many years, the contract written by defendant was ratified and followed by NRA and by LaPierre.” So it was just a draft, never signed, and $300,000 was paid out on an unsigned contract?

The suit asks for a million in compensation, refund of all fees paid, and a court order forbidding Dycio from revealing information.

It’s signed by Bill Brewer and a Virginia attorney for NRA, and by a third attorney (who is probably being paid by NRA) for LaPierre. Now, this is a Virginia lawsuit between Virginia people, and under Virginia law. NRA and LaPierre already have Virginia lawyers. Why would you want to add Brewer, a hyper-expensive Texas lawyer?

Here goes some more NRA money down the legal drain. It shows how things were handled in the past, too. A person who was a personal friend of the LaPierres was paid $300,000 of NRA money even though nobody had bothered to sign his contract. Now, NRA will pay more hundreds of thousands to sue him.