Hunter Biden's ex-lawyer ordered to pay $50K to former Trump aide after harassment claims crumble
FIRST ON FOX: The Superior Court of California is ordering Kevin Morris, an attorney previously dubbed as Hunter Biden's "sugar brother," to pay $50,000 to former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler...
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FIRST ON FOX: The Superior Court of California is ordering Kevin Morris, an attorney previously dubbed as Hunter Biden's "sugar brother," to pay $50,000 to former Trump aide Garrett Ziegler and Marco Polo, the conservative nonprofit research group he founded, to cover legal expenses. The ruling ends a protracted dispute over whether Ziegler impersonated a Democratic strategist to pry sensitive information out of Morris about the Hunter Biden laptop during a conversation over the phone in 2022. To Jennifer Holliday, Ziegler’s attorney, the judgment doesn’t even begin to make up for three years of legal battles. "I t's not really how I envisioned it would play out, and I don't think that's how the Constitution envisions that something like this would play out — which is why we filed a petition with the Supreme Court of the United States to review," Holliday told Fox News Digital. FORMER '60 MINUTES' PRODUCER SAYS HE WAS PRESSURED TO APOLOGIZE OVER HARRIS INTERVIEW "I certainly hope that they will take a really hard look at what happened here because this is not a situation that should have ever happened," she added. Holliday is asking the Supreme Court to evaluate California’s anti-SLAPP law, arguing the state’s protections for free speech actually only worsened the case by prolonging what she believes were weak accusations. A person familiar with Morris’ case called the conclusion a formality and downplayed the Supreme Court filing as unlikely to receive a review, noting that Ziegler’s representation had requested as much as $300,000 to conclude the case. Morris’s legal battle with Ziegler began when Morris picked up the phone and spoke with someone whom he thought was a Democratic operative about the laptop back in 2022. But when, after the call, he received an image depicting a squid, the phrase "NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH," and the words "Marco Polo," Morris realized his mistake. Morris, who reportedly loaned Hunter Biden approximately $6.5 million to bankroll h…