Like any producer who deserves his salt, Rodrigo Teixeira tried to make a deal to solve a problem. When the December 14 talks in the fraud proceedings of Sao Paulo financier Luiz Mussnich failed, Call me by your name the manufacturer rejected in court with a harsh motion of rejection.
‘With his complaint in the present action, the applicant Luiz Mussnich, a Brazilian citizen living in Brazil, launches vindictive personal attacks against defendant Rodrigo Teixeira, another Brazilian citizen living in Brazil, claiming that the applicant’s association with defendant Teixeira and RT Features ruined The applicant’s self-proclaimed “strong reputation” as a “financial management professional” says the December 21 case in federal court at RT Features and his lawyers Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro (read it here).
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“However, the applicant ignores his own unpleasant history,” says the motion to discard Mussnich’s $ 16 million case. ‘The crucial fact that the applicant did not intentionally disclose in his complaint – and was not intentionally disclosed to Teixeira or RT Features – is that he destroyed his own reputation long ago, when he received a five-year sentence. imprisonment from the Brazilian government for securities and taxes. fraud.”
Taking that bodyslam as a starting point, Teixeira’s movement becomes as relentless as that of 2019 Ad Astra, which he also produced.
Long process: While acknowledging that the film business can be hot and cold, Teixeira and his lawyers G. Jill Basinger and Steve Basileo insist that the Brazilian producer, “despite the long chances of success in the film industry, involving in particular a company over 6,000 miles from Hollywood, ”he makes critically and commercially successful films. In addition, while he does not declare himself another boy and claims that not every release is an Oscar-winning hit, as directed by Luca Guadagnino Name, Teixeria proclaims that it does not confuse the money of its investors. In this sense, Mussnich’s contrary accusations are a false and “imagined” scheme.
Mussnich, on the other hand, claims that, since 2009, Teixeira has been supporting it with “a shell-type game involving intellectual property rights, rather than traditional stocks, bonds or debt instruments”, in order to attract investors and live the high life. “Mussnich has been severely damaged, as Teixeira has exploited Mussnich’s business partners, wealthy Brazilian families and even Mussnich’s own family for tens of millions of dollars in what turned out to be unnecessary investments. “, Says the extended complaint from October 21 that gave rise to everything is stopped.
No doubt, and unfortunately, you’ve heard this story about how the bright lights on the big screen blinded some to the risks they could take with their money in search of “big profit.” Citing other lawsuits in Brazil and elsewhere against Teixeria and RT (some have been resolved, others not), Mussinch claims that RT’s American accountant and defendant Joseph Gues told him “that Teixeira and RT will routinely settle cases with dissatisfied investors, taking funds from investors allocated for other settlement financing projects. “
By portraying Mussinch as a very dissatisfied investor, the dismissal motion practically denounces the jury requesting the applicant’s initial complaint and outrage.
“He also claims that, for years, he has remained in a happy way, unaware that these many investments he has brokered for the closest business and personal relationships were underperforming and he did not find out. and investigated up to a time in the last three years. “these problems”, is shown in the file of the high quality indie producer about Mussinch’s litigious indignation.
Going from subjective to objective, the motion for rejection adds: The complainant’s complaint does not take into account any basic principle of case law: a legal cause of action must be stated in order to successfully pursue a dispute. For a number of reasons, the applicant’s complaint does not exceed the grade.
Mussinch’s American lawyer, Arash Sadat, did not respond to the request for comments on the motion to reject his client’s case
Hollywood lawyers Glaser Weil from Teixeira want the motion to be rejected, with prejudices, before Judge Marc Scarsi in the DTLA, on January 25 next year.
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