SAN FRANCISCO — Famed investment advisor Charles Schwab filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing a Beverly Hills law firm and its client of creating a libelous website as a part of an alleged extortion plot aimed at him and his son.

Both Schwab and his son Michael filed complaints in San Francisco Superior Court accusing Steiner & Libo, partner Leonard Steiner, and client Nicholas Behunin with libel for their roles in publishing chuck-you.com, a website that claims the Schwabs sought to do business with the family of late Indonesian dictator Suharto.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]