Ethan Conrad files defamation lawsuit against alleged victims' attorney
KCRA 3
[{'start': '0.800', 'end': '5.939', 'text': "THIS IS KCRA THREE NEWS AT 430.  A REAL ESTATE AGENT OR INVESTOR,  I SHOULD SAY ETHAN CONRAD HIRED  THE SAME ATTORNEYS WHO HELPED  ACTOR JOHNNY DEPP WIN A  DEFAMATION CASE.  AND NOW THEY'VE HELPED CONRAD  FILE A DEFAMATION CASE OF HIS  OWN AGAINST A LOCAL ATTORNEY.  KCRA THREE INVESTIGATES.  LYSEE MITRI REVEALS THE LATEST  IN THIS LEGAL BATTLE.  LIZZIE.  LISA.  CURTIS, WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING  THIS BACK AND FORTH IN COURT  SINCE OUR FIRST REPORT IN  DECEMBER.  AT THIS POINT, A SPAN OF ABOUT  SIX MONTHS HAS GONE BY WHERE  ETHAN CONRAD HAS FACED FIVE  CIVIL LAWSUITS FROM FIVE  DIFFERENT WOMEN.  SEVERAL OF THEM MAKE ALLEGATIONS  OF SEXUAL BATTERY AND ASSAULT.  SPECIFICALLY, SOME OF THEM  ALLEGE THAT CONRAD DRUGGED THEIR  DRINKS AND THEN RAPED THEM.  BUT THESE ARE ALLEGATIONS CONRAD  HAS VEHEMENTLY DENIED.  AND NOW CONRAD IS SUING ONE OF  THE ATTORNEYS, CHASE MEISTER,  WHO HAS BEEN REPRESENTING THE  FIRST TWO ALLEGED VICTIMS THAT  CAME FORWARD.  THE CIVIL LAWSUIT STATES THIS IS  A CASE ABOUT A MALICIOUS  CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY A MAN'S GOOD  NAME AND EXTORT MONEY THROUGH  LITIGATION, LITIGATION, ABUSE  AND DEFAMATION.  THIS ACCUSES MEISTER OF  ATTEMPTING TO FIND ANDND RECRUIT  OTHER WOMEN TO SUE MR. CONRAD,  HOPING, QUOTE, THE PUBLIC WILL  ASSUME FROM THE VOLUME OF THEIR  COMPLAINTS THAT WHERE THERE'S  SMOKE, THERE MUST BE FIRE.  NOW, OUTSIDE OF THE BATTLE IN  COURT, THE LAWSUIT ALSO INCLUDES  MEISTER'S POST TO INSTAGRAM.  AT LEAST ONE OF THEM DIRECTLY  REFERRED TO CONRAD AS A RAPIST,  AND THIS LAWSUIT ALLEGES THE  POSTS ARE FALSE AND DEFAMATORY.  IN RESPONSE, MEISTER SPOKE WITH  US.  HE SENT US A STATEMENT.  HE SAYS IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE  HOW THE ABUSER IS TRYING TO  PROCLAIM HIMSELF THE VICTIM WITH  IRRELEVANT AD HOMINEM ATTACKS  AND UNSUPPORTED CLAIMS AND  INNUENDO AGAINST ONE OF THE  ATTORNEYS.  THE LAWSUIT, FOR INSTANCE, DOES  MENTION A WARRANT FOR MEISTER'S  ARREST OUT OF PLACER COUNTY.  WE DID LOOK INTO THAT, AND THE  COURT WEBSITE SHOWS MEISTER  FAILED TO COMPLETE A THREE MONTH  DUI PROGRAM AFTER PLEADING NO  CONTEST LAST YEAR TO A  MISDEMEANOR.  BACK TO YOU.  SO HE'S NOT THE ONLY ATTORNEY  REPRESENTING SOME OF THESE  ALLEGED VICTIMS SUING CONRAD.  HAVE YOU SPOKEN TO ANY OF THE  OTHER ATTORNEYS?  WE DID.  WE TALKED TO JOHN GARNER.  HE IS CO-COUNSEL WITH MEISTER ON  THEE FIRST TWO CASES, BUT HE SAS  OTHERWISE.  HE AND MEISTER HAVE SEPARATE LAW  PRACTICES.  NO OTHER PROFESSIONAL  AFFILIATION.  AND HE POINTS OUT THAT MEISTER  HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE  THIRD, FOURTH, OR FIFTH LAWSUITS  AGAINST CONRAD.  HE IS NOT AN ATTORNEY LISTED ON  THOSE CASES, AND HE SAYS MEISTER  DOESN'T EVEN KNOW THOSE ALLEGED  VICTIMS.  SO HE'S SAYING THAT THIS CLAIM  THAT MEISTER FOUND AND RECRUITED  ALL THESE WOMEN TO SUE IS JUST  UNFOUNDED.  ALL RIGHT.  THANK YOU.  AND WHILE THERE ARE NO CRIMINAL  CHARGES AGAINST CONRAD, AT LAST  CHECK, THE SACRAMENTO SHERIFF'S  OFFICE SAYS THERE ARE AT LEAST  THREE ACTIVE, OPEN  INVESTIGATIONS INTO CLAIMS  AGAINST"}]