A federal judge in Newnan is allowing civil racketeering claims stemming from a protracted child custody battle to go forward against Atlanta attorney Millard Farmer, his former co-counsel in the custody case, and a child custody activist with a local radio show who injected herself into the litigation.
In a 90-page order issued March 31 rejecting motions to dismiss the case, U.S. District Judge Timothy Batten held that lawyers “are not automatically shielded from prosecution for criminal acts simply because those acts took place in the context of litigation.” The racketeering suit was on behalf of John Murphy—a former Columbus mortgage banker—and Murphy’s current wife, Renee Haugurud, the founder and chief financial officer of Galtere, a New York commodity trading hedge fund.
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