But Fraud Is Part of God’s Plan?
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Former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis is facing a new lawsuit in her home turf accusing her of hiding inherited assets to avoid paying the $565,000 federal civil rights judgment against for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Attorneys for the two Kentucky men whose case drew international attention after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015 filed a lawsuit in Rowan Circuit Court this month. They want a judge to void the transfer of Davis’ half-interest in property she inherited from her mother last year and later gave to her husband, son, brother and sister-in-law. The attorneys claim Davis lied under oath about the inheritance to defraud David Ermold and David Moore of the money a federal jury awarded them in 2023. “This is a slam dunk in any court,” said Michael Gartland, a Lexington attorney for Ermold and Moore who has represented the couple since Davis first refused to sign a license marrying them in 2015. “The minute her mother died, those properties were half hers with her brother, and that’s a problem for her.” The lawsuit marks the latest chapter in the decade-long legal battle that began when Davis, then Rowan County clerk, refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples after the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision.
Why do bad things happen to horrible people?