Court documents filed in former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shae Moss’s lawsuit against now-technically bankrupt extremist fake news outlet the Gateway Pundit obtained in discovery and then picked up by the Guardian reveal that the crew had “major concerns as to the professionalism, reliability, and honesty of several contributors, including Jordan Conradson, who wrote some of the” articles defaming the Georgia mother-daughter duo as Soros-paid saboteurs who tampered with ballots to steal the 2020 election from fat former President Trump.

Freeman and Moss’s lawyers asserted they have an email by Gateway’s counsel John Burns, who warned staff not to rely on a “source” in Georgia named Kevin Moncla, writing that he’s a “goddamned fraud” is a “known fabricator. I wouldn’t touch/publish anything he produces.” And an email from Moncla telling a reporter he will “help you nail these bitches,” referring to the two.

Moncla, who in 2006 was ordered to pay a $3.25 million civil judgment after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor voyeurism charge for hiding a camera in his home’s bathroom to spy on people, wrote in an email that Burns was “entitled to his opinion, as I am entitled to mine. I would challenge the son of a bitch to provide any support for such statements – in the multiple articles I have ghost-written for his client, The Gateway Pundit, or otherwise. I stand by my work and my statements as I invest the time to do the work and research and take very seriously what I publish.” Moncla had managed to obtain Freeman and Moss’s non-public employment files from the Fulton County elections commission, which was probably the only actual real information he got on which to base his defamatory assault on the women who won $148 million from Rudy Giuliani last year.

The Guardian notes that the filing, submitted to a St Louis federal court on April 16th, probably explains why Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft filed for bankruptcy protection a week later.