'Defanging the Kraken': Detroit's Attorney Speaks Out About Sanctions Fight with Election-Attacking Lawyers (Feat. David Fink)

Soundly defeated in four separate courts, the election-attacking legal monster known as the "Kraken" has been morphing into a different beast. Associated with pro-Trump conspiracy theorists Sidney Powell and Lin Wood, the Kraken took its name from an octopus-like creature of mythology and inserted its tentacles into federal courts in Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia and Michigan. The last court is where the Kraken met perhaps its most formidable adversary: Detroit's lawyer David Fink, who decided that defeating the lawsuit alone was not enough. "Step one was stopping the Kraken," Fink declared on the podcast. "Step two is caging the Kraken." In December, Fink became the first attorney to seek heavy sanctions against the lawyers pushing former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. A federal judge in Michigan has been considering Fink's long-pending request to refer Powell, Wood, and seven other attorneys working with them for disbarment proceedings. He also wants the judge to sanction the nine lawyers with a fine for the money that they raised in support of their election conspiracy theories. That brought Fink to another phase of his opposition: "Defanging the Kraken." Learn more on this podcast. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.