Bo Jackson wins $21 million extortion case against niece, nephew

Bo Jackson was awarded $21 million in a civil swimsuit after his niece and nephew tried to extort him.

The two-sport legend filed a grievance final April against siblings Thomas Lee Anderson and Erica M. Andrews, accusing his niece and nephew of “relentless harassment and intimidation.

According to the lawsuit filed by Jackson, the pair attempted to extort $20 million from Jackson in exchange for not publicly revealing information that cast him “in a false light” and brought about “severe emotional distress,” in line with AL.com.

The Andersons continued to harass and intimidate Jackson by contacting his quick household through social media, “publicly disclosing and threatening to continue public disclosures of allegations,” in addition to threatening to look at places close to Jackson’s dwelling to intimidate him, in line with court docket data obtained by WSB-TV.

The cumulative actions and “relentless harassment and intimidation” from the Andersons reportedly brought about Jackson “severe emotional distress.”

Jackson was awarded the case after the Andersons failed to look in court docket on Jan. 31 to contest a brief protecting order the case decide issued final May.

“Defendants have acted with malice, wantonness, oppression, with a conscious effort of indifference to circumstances and with the specific intent to cause Plaintiff harm,” Cobb County decide Jason Marbutt wrote within the ruling obtained by AL.com.”

Jackson was awarded simply over $1 million in compensatory damages and to offset legal professional charges, with an extra $20 million for punitive damages. Jackson has additionally been awarded a everlasting protecting order against the Andersons, forbidding them from contacting him or his household, barring them from coming inside 500 yards of the Jacksons and their properties, colleges, or workplaces, and prohibiting them from posting about Jackson on social media.

The former Raiders working again and Kansas City Royals outfielder has expertise defending his character up to now. In 2005, Jackson sued the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin after the newspaper quoted a dietary specialist claiming a hip damage Jackson suffered enjoying within the NFL was the results of steroid use. The paper finally retracted the story, issuing a public apology to Jackson.