Democratic huckster versus Islamist hucksters; this can only end well…
Via NY Post:
Al Gore better hope this legal battle goes better than the one he lost in 2000.
The former vice president and his one-time partner at Current TV filed suit on Friday against Al Jazeera, the Qatar-owned media empire that bought the cable channel for $500 million.
The suit, filed in Delaware Chancery Court, claims the channel renamed Al Jazeera America is illegally withholding $65 million due Current TV’s former shareholders under the terms reached in January 2013.
Gore, 66, was set to personally pocket an estimated $100 million on the sale of his 20 percent stake in the network, which he helped found in 2004.
“Al Jazeera America wants to give itself a discount on the purchase price that was agreed to nearly two years ago,” David Boies, who’s representing Gore and Current TV’s other co-founder, Joel Hyatt, said in a statement.