A public breakup that has allegedly been discussed by both parties on social media has now landed in court.
On June 30, Newnan-based L Strategies LLC filed a lawsuit in Coweta County Superior Court against Angie Wong, one of the company’s founding owners, alleging misappropriation of $2,000 and defamation for both defamation as for slander. The organization is seeking $1.4 million in punitive damages and $282,000 in compensatory damages.
Almost three weeks earlier, Wong posted on his Facebook page his “official statement” about L Strategies. The letter, with a typewritten signature by Atlanta attorney Alex Kaufman, told attorney Jared B. Craig, Patrick Collis, Stan Fitzgerald and Donna Fitzgerald to “immediately cease and desist from publicly distributing false, misleading information and/ or derogatory about Ms. Wong. , information disseminated with the intent to defame and damage Ms. Wong’s character and reputation.”
According to state records, L Strategies was registered in Georgia by attorney Craig on Oct. 12, 2022. It re-registered in March of this year. The three partners in the political consulting and media buying brokerage firm were Craig, Stan Fitzgerald and Wong, according to the complaint filed in the suit.
In April of this year, the complaint states that unexplained money began appearing in the company’s bank accounts. Wong told the other partners that it was based on contracts she had unilaterally created. Of these, two have been configured correctly, the complaint states. The other two, with Texas Booker and Real America Voice were not, according to the lawsuit. The Texas Booker contract allegedly included a $2,000 kickback for Wong, and the Real America Voice contract includes media impact points that L Strategies claims Wong used, according to the complaint.
After those discoveries during an investigation of the contracts, Wong was asked for an explanation, which he did not provide, according to the complaint. So on May 30, Craig and Stan Fitzgerald voted her out of the partnership.
But in her letter, Wong accused her partners of removing her from the company after she asked
in the drafting of the company’s accounting documents.
“The refusal to provide routine business records and Ms. Wong’s subsequent withdrawal following this records demand is highly suggestive of wrongdoing by Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. Craig, including possible criminal conduct related to the receipt and use of these records. funds, and likely violate the governing instrument, statute, or common law, and deprived Ms. Wong of her contractual rights,” her letter states.
L Strategies said in the complaint that it complied with Wong’s letter and removed all posts and comments about the controversy from the company’s websites and social media pages. It claims Wong failed to do the same, leading to the lawsuit.
