MMUK wrote:
RYinRV wrote:Very interesting. The Georgia Supreme Court has ruled against another TransCon cheater: Stanley Cottrell. There are huge similarities to the Rob Young case.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7479211
A very entertaining read; we could only hope RY sues someone and then has to defend his attempt in court...
Lol, so some scammer was doing the exact same thing in the 70s as Rob Young.
"A self-proclaimed marathon runner and Christian evangelist has lost his appeal of a Cobb County judge’s ruling that overturned a jury’s $635,000 verdict in his favor against five people he had sued for posting defamatory statements about him on the internet.
According to the facts of the case, for a number of years, Stanley Cottrell, Jr. engaged in highly publicized running exhibitions that had a Christian evangelical and “friendship†emphasis. Cottrell gained public notice and his solo running achievements were often portrayed in movies, books and other media. He successfully parlayed his image as a “world-renowned ultra-marathon runner†into business endeavors, executive leadership roles, and motivational speaking. However, his notoriety was accompanied by controversy related to his character and media reports that questioned the authenticity of his achievements, including whether he actually ran the long distances he claimed. His critics also complained that as a married man he was engaged in a number of extra-marital affairs in conflict with his self-avowed Christian evangelism. Among his critics were five people Cottrell ultimately sued: Glenn and Marian Crocker who worked for Cottrell and helped plan two of his running exhibitions; Dr. Hugh Johnson, a Baptist minister who was Cottrell’s prayer partner and confidant and learned about several women with whom Cottrell was intimately involved; Peggy Smith, one of the paramours; and Karen Smith, Peggy’s daughter-in-law, who located and contacted several people she believed had information about Cottrell, including the Crockers and Johnson.
After becoming convinced that Cottrell deceived people for financial gain and had no intention of repaying her mother-in-law for a $20,000 loan she had given him, Karen Smith and her husband created a “WordPress†blog about Cottrell called, “You Shall Know the Truth.†According to briefs filed in the case, the posts contained statements such as, Cottrell was a “scam artist,†and “his runs aren’t even real.†Karen Smith also sent emails to a “list-serve†group criticizing Cottrell and sharing links to the Blog posts. Peggy Smith sent messages to a number of Cottrell’s Facebook friends making similar allegations."