'Beyond the Pale': More Than $500,000 in Attorney Fees Awarded to Google in Civil RICO Suit
A King & Spalding team argued that two Russian nationals residing in Russia worked with others to create an illicit network called a botnet, and through the botnet stole Google users' personal information.
March 07, 2023 at 05:33 PM
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The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York on Friday awarded $525,673.81 in attorneys' fees to Google after finding that two defendants in a civil RICO suit engaged in a "willful campaign to resist discovery and mislead the court."
Google, through its attorneys at King & Spalding, filed suit in December 2021, arguing that the named defendants—Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov—were "Russian cybercriminals who have silently infiltrated more than a million computers and other devices around the globe."
The King & Spalding team argued that Starovikov and Filippov, who are both Russian nationals residing in Russia, worked with others to create an illicit network called a botnet, and through the botnet stole Google users' personal information.
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