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Date: August 12, 2023 05:43PM
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/08/seeking-jury-awarded-damages-from-bundy-st-lukes-lawsuit-alleges-sham-transaction/"St. Luke’s has filed a new lawsuit against Ammon Bundy that accuses him of hiding assets to “frustrate” collection efforts by the health care system and other plaintiffs, who won a defamation case against Bundy and other defendants.
In the 22-page complaint, which was provided to the Idaho Statesman by St. Luke’s attorneys, the plaintiffs are asking the 3rd Judicial District to void any transfers of property or assets made by Bundy and his wife, including the sale of their 5-acre 4,760-square-foot Emmett home, which St. Luke’s claims was done to avoid paying millions in damages.
In a separate filing, St. Luke’s also asked the court to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent Bundy from trying to hinder the plaintiffs from collecting court-ordered damages. The plaintiffs are seeking an order that would prevent the defendants — including Bundy’s wife, Lisa Bundy — from making any further transfers, sales or conveyances of property they own.
The memo also asks that Bundy is prevented from transferring ownership or assets of any of his entities, including the People’s Rights Network and Bundy’s political organization.
The health care system in its memo called the sale a “sham transaction” and said Bundy made public statements after selling his home that he did so in order to hide his assets.
The roughly $1 million home’s title was transferred to Welling on Dec. 5, and in exchange Welling paid the Bundys $250,000, which was later reimbursed through a bank loan, according to the memo. The Bundys — who still live on the property — then entered into a “very favorable lease agreement” and are paying minimal rent, the memo said.
St. Luke’s said Bundy’s public statements acknowledged that he “disposed of assets, including selling his home, to protect his assets,” and the legal filings called the home transaction a “casebook example” of a fraudulent transfer.
Stidham told the Statesman that Bundy “owes for the damages caused by his lies and his grift for money and publicity. Now, Mr. Bundy is acting to hinder collection on the judgment. In fact, Mr. Bundy has been making statements in videos that he will call in his supporters to thwart collection of the judgment against him.
“Without shame, Mr. Bundy is recruiting his followers to be his protection in a stand-off to preserve the monies he has made off his grifts, which primarily targeted the same followers he now implores to protect him from accountability — a grifter standoff using those he grifted as human shields.”