PART 2 - Read & Kearney SUED: Koskoff's $1.4 Billion Sandy Hook Firm Files in MA - Legal Breakdown

The law firm that won the $1.4 BILLION Alex Jones / Sandy Hook verdict just

sued Karen Read and Aidan "Turtleboy" Kearney for defamation in Massachusetts.

On April 16, 2026, attorneys from Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder and Hinckley Allen

filed a 50-page, 14-count civil complaint in Barnstable Superior Court on

behalf of Jennifer McCabe, Brian Albert, Colin Albert, and federal ATF Special

Agent Brian Higgins — the four witnesses the Karen Read defense team spent

two criminal trials telling two juries were the "real killers" of Boston

Police Officer John O'Keefe.

Bob and Ali Motta break down the entire complaint paragraph-by-paragraph,

identify the single defense that could blow the whole case wide open, and

explain why this lawsuit is the most important post-acquittal civil filing

in America since the Sandy Hook verdict.

WHAT WE COVER:

✔ All 14 counts: defamation, defamation per se, civil conspiracy, intentional

and negligent infliction of emotional distress, aiding and abetting, and

Chapter 93A unfair trade practices — ranked strongest to weakest

✔ The Massachusetts Anti-SLAPP statute (M.G.L. c. 231 § 59H) — its 1994

origins, the full doctrinal arc through Duracraft (1998), Blanchard (2017),

and Bristol Asphalt (2024), and why Kearney's 60-day motion is both his best

weapon AND probably doomed under Fustolo v. Hollander and Cadle v. Schlichtmann

✔ THE TRUTH DEFENSE — the single most important legal point in this entire

case, and the one most commentators are missing. Why the Hepps rule (U.S.

Supreme Court, 1986) puts the burden of proving falsity on the plaintiffs,

not the defendants — and why the Karen Read criminal acquittal haunts every

page of this civil complaint

✔ The co-defendant conflicts that were engineered into the pleading — why

Read and Kearney cannot mount a joint defense, who has the documents, who

runs out of money first, and why Read is the likelier cooperator

✔ Every key allegation cross-referenced to a specific paragraph of the

complaint — including the alleged 189 phone calls and 40+ hours of contact

in 2023 alone, the alleged intermediary "copy and paste vessel," the alleged

Yannetti texts, the real-time texts during the Higgins confrontation,

Kearney's alleged post-verdict admissions, the celebration photo caption,

and Read's Rotten Mango statements.

EVERY FACTUAL CLAIM about the defendants in this episode is sourced to a

specific paragraph of the civil complaint. These are allegations, not

findings. The defendants have not yet answered. We walk through the defense

counterpoints on every major allegation — because that's what lawyers are

supposed to do.

COMPLAINT: Publicly available on the Barnstable County Superior Court docket.

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Karen Read

Sullivan

Per Se) KR

Per Se) AK

Infliction Of Emotional Distress) KR

(100 Mass. App. Ct. 1105 (2021))

(2022)

Infliction Of Emotional Distress) AK

- COUNT EIGHT (Aiding & Abetting

Intentional Infliction Of Emotional

Distress) AK

- COUNT NINE (Negligent Infliction Of Emotional Distress) KR

- COUNT TEN (Negligent Infliction Of Emotional Distress) AK

- COUNT ELEVEN (Aiding & Abetting

Negligent Infliction Of Emotional

Distress) KR

- COUNT TWELVE (Aiding & Abetting

Negligent Infliction Of Emotional

Distress) AK

Conspiracy) KR & AK

(Massachusetts Unfair Trade Practices

Act) AK

JURY DEMAND