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Bachmann, Coulter Named As Witnesses In Suit Over Alleged Tea Party TV Scam

Jillian Rayfield | January 27, 2012, 10:56AM

After no one took him up on his televised "lie detector challenge," the man accused of scamming his co-investors in the failed television venture Tea Party HD is trying to make his case by calling a number of high-profile conservative witnesses like Michele Bachmann and Ann Coulter to his defense.

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Topics: Ann Coulter, Anthony Loiacono, Bill Hemrick, Judson Phillips, Michele Bachmann, Tea Party HD

Anthony Loiacono

Alleged Tea Party HD Scammer Countersues Former Business Partners

Jillian Rayfield | December 23, 2011, 12:26PM

A conservative businessman, accused of scamming investors in a Tea Party television venture, is countersuing his former business partners, claiming that they conspired against him and that he "has suffered shame and humiliation" as a result of their suit.

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Topics: Anthony Loiacono, Bill Hemrick, Tea Party HD, Tea Party Nation

Conservative Investors Sue Over Sham Tea Party TV Network

Jillian Rayfield | November 11, 2011, 6:25AM

A group of conservative investors in Tennessee is suing a California businessman for allegedly conning them into investing in Tea Party HD, a TV channel aimed at tea partiers, that they say turned out to be a scam.

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Topics: Bill Hemrick, Judson Phillips, Tea Party, Tea Party Nation

Tea Party Nation

Tea Party Convention Backer Sues Organizer

Zachary Roth | March 31, 2010, 9:54AM

At a tea party in Philadelphia

In the latest sign of Tea Party rancor, the key backer of last month's national convention at which Sarah Palin spoke is suing the event's organizer, charging that he reneged on a deal to continue working together on Tea Party business.

Bill Hemrick, the founder of the Upper Deck baseball card company, loaned Tea Party Nation $50,000, which went towards the $100,000 speaking fee given to Palin. He says the money was loaned on the condition that he could remain involved with the conservative political action committee that TPN founder and convention organizer Judson Phillips said he was putting together. Hemrick says that Phillips backed out of the deal, and even barred Hemrick from attending Palin's speech. He also claims that Phillips defamed him by writing an email to supporters saying he was not "reputable" or "trustworthy."