Judge imposes $335,000 penalty on Ronaldo accuser’s Vegas lawyer

Judge Lilly-Spells pointed to Judge Dorsey’s earlier decisions to shield from public view the results of police investigations, a 2010 confidentiality agreement between Ronaldo and Ms Mayorga and allegedly stolen records of attorney-client discussions between Ronaldo and his lawyers.

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A lawyer has been hit with a 335,000-dollar penalty for pressing a bid in US courts to force Cristiano Ronaldo to pay millions of dollars more than the 375,000 dollars in hush money he paid to a Nevada woman who claimed he raped her in Las Vegas in 2009.

“I find that Ronaldo would not have incurred a majority of the fees and costs that he spent on this litigation absent plaintiff’s counsel’s bad faith,” US District Judge Jennifer Dorsey said in a scathing 18-page ruling.