| Cohen &
Co Was Sued About Vitaly Malkin Now Rollag
Legal Threat On Link to Oligarch
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 10 – Kevin Rollag sued
Cowen and Company after
complaining it accepted
investments into is Cannabis
group from "Vitaly Malkin, a
Russian / Israeli oligarch
banned from Canada for 19
years."
Rollag said his
bonus was slashed and he was
thrown off the cannabis team.
On March 2,
2021 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Ronnie Abrams
held a proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it.
Cohen
wanted to compel arbitration.
It made filings with
redactions in nearly every
paragraph, and alleged that
Rollag had engaged in
defamation. They have been
told they could separately sue
for that.
Now in April 2022
it is Rollag's family sending,
via counsel, a legal threat,
which we publish: "Dear Mr.
Russell: I have been retained
to represent Ms. Katherine
Rollag to address her concerns
regarding the financial,
personal and reputational
damages caused by your article
about her husband Kevin Rollag
entitled Cohen & Co is
Sued After Took Vitaly Malkin
Money for Cannabis Unit
Redactions in SDNY, dated
March 2, 2020, located on your
site at the following link
The
article contains damaging
information, and we are
requesting that you remove the
link. To that end, the article
mentions a lawsuit involving
Mr. Rollag where Mr. Rollag
claimed he was improperly
terminated after he objected
to his former employer’s
dealings with a
Russian-Israeli oligarch. The
article discussed various
procedural filings in the
case, including the motion to
compel arbitration. Since the
date of the article, namely in
early 2022, Mr. Rollag’s
lawsuit was settled. Despite
the fact that the litigation
was settled, your article
remains online, calling into
question my client’s actions
and reputation. While the
article may have had an
inadvertent intent, the
article, and the way you are
presenting this information to
the public, is causing
tremendous damage to my client
and his reputation, and as a
result of the presence of the
article online, Mr. Rollag is
suffering great emotional
strain and financial loss.
Namely, when potential
business employers Google
search my client’s name, your
article appears near the top
of the search results."
The case is
Rollag v. Cowen Inc. et al.,
20-cv-5138 (Abrams)
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