Teti files lawsuit

| December 15, 2014

Earlier this month, we reported that Discovery Channel personality, Joe Teti was ready to file a lawsuit against some of our friends. Military Times reports that the suit has been filed in a North Carolina venue;

The lawsuit also names:

The Special Forces Association and its president, retired Army Col. Jack Tobin.
Retired Special Forces Sgt. Maj. George Davenport, a longtime SFA member who added Teti to his Special Forces Poser Patrol’s Facebook “Wall of Shame.”
Former Marine Scott Hughes, moderator of the Military Phonies website, who was among several calling on Teti to produce his active-duty DD-214 and National Guard NGB-22, both official military documents, listing units, schools, awards and other pertinent details of service.
Monique Haina, who the lawsuit claims has posted “dozens if not hundreds” of false and defamatory statements on Facebook and other websites.

All are named for alleged defamation and causing Teti financial losses and emotional suffering.

Tobin and the SFA did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Davenport declined to comment until he could consult with his lawyer. Hawke and Hughes deny Teti’s claims.

You can read the lawsuit at the link to the TAH link at the top of this post, if you haven’t read it yet. The folks at Professional Soldiers write to tell us that there has been a PayPal account set up if you’re moved to help the legal defense.

In my opinion, I don’t think Teti has a chance and he’s probably sweating the discovery phase. But, like I’ve said before, this should be no surprise to anyone – it took him about a half hour after our first post about him for him to start threatening me with a lawsuit, and I basically gave him a tongue bath. The man can’t take criticism, even in small doses.

Category: Dumbass Bullshit

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NHSparky

Another clown from the Bernath School of Shitbaggery…sue them, cost them, wear them down.

And to think at one time I was willing to give him benefit of the doubt. Now? Pfft.

Green Thumb

Word.

Extra loser Teti is…

Sparks

Extra WORD.

Hondo

Was thinkin’ ’bout ya, Sparks. Glad to see ya made it back.

Just one request: no catheter stories this time, please. (smile)

Hondo

Yep. A perfect example of a SLAPP for reasons other than political.

Flagwaver

So, he’s going to try and Bernath his way into the lawsuit? I don’t think that will work because he is spending money on an attorney, too.

royh

I think you meant a tongue-lashing.

TankBoy

Maybe not. Don’t judge. It’s allowed now.

Green Thumb

When I take a knee or “take 5”, I always look for a patch of ice or snow to help me out.

I am that hard, It ain’t ever cold enough or wet enough for me.

Stay dry….whatever.

2/17 Air Cav

Sorry, but I just need to see this in print again:

“I don’t often drink piss but, when I do, I prefer to drink my own. Stay thirsty my friends.” –Joe

B Woodman

Please! A Spew Alert in advance would be polite.

JAGC

Teti needs to placate his legions of sycophants so this lawsuit to me isn’t about the merits, but rather the theory that by filing the lawsuit, Teti can tell his fans that he filed it as a means of discrediting and clouding the fact that he is not a combat veteran. So whenever the issue comes up, he can say, “I filed a lawsuit against those who say otherwise.” By the time the court dismisses this because Teti is a public figure, or Teti drops it after the defendants don’t back down to his chagrin and discovery proves he is not a combat veteran, Teti will claim victory anyway by hiding behind the nebulous “it’s classified which is why the case couldn’t proceed all the way.” My opinion anyway.

Ex-PH2

Tse-tse flies carry sleeping sickness.

Teti-fly is so completely boring and predictable he puts me to sleep.

thebesig

With the way Joseph Teti is behaving, the “i” in “Teti” should be an “a,” as he’s acting like a boob. 🙄 💡

Medic09

Reminiscences of Gidduck come to mind…

Hondo

Yep. Except Gidduck was a lawyer who should have known his chances of success were somewhere around zero and nada.

ChipNASA

What a MASSIVE vagina.
He’s going to try to take the title from Jessie Ventura??

MCPO NYC USN Ret.

No kidding. There is not enough Vagisil or Mydol in North America to satisfy this pussy!

Argh …

Thunderstixx

Turdbottom…

Dave Hardin

Thought I might share what I have already posted on topic elsewhere and Teti’s attorney better get used to hearing it: Joe Teti It seems Joe Teti who appears in a show called Dual Survivor has filed a lawsuit against several people for calling some of his military claims into question. The bantering going on between all of these people has been eating at me. I am not one to sit on the sidelines and say nothing when I see something is wrong. Since I get asked about it, I thought I would post my opinion on the whole thing. First, it appears Teti was a Marine. He did serve with RECON. I do not believe that is being disputed by anyone. It seems to me most of this could have easily been solved by Teti a long time ago. There are several parts of this dispute I can speak directly to. By the time Teti had joined the Marine Corps I had several enlistments under my belt. I was still on active duty long after he finished his only enlistment. I am familiar with some of the units he served in. His attorney states that Teti completed the Special Forces Underwater Operations Course. Several people have done their due diligence and contacted that school only to find out there is no record of him attending. According to his records that I have seen posted online there is no record of that Army course listed. The reality is they are both partially correct. To my knowledge the Marine Corps used the Diving School at Key West and it appears Teti did attend. He then had to complete an additional transition course when he got back to his unit that made you a Combat Diver, it appears Teti did that while in Pearl Habor. The Marine Corps no longer authorizes RECON units to conduct their own Combat Diver training. That change happened after Teti was discharged from the Corps. NDSTC did not include the Combat Diver portion until 1992. At least that is when the Corps began to officially recognize it.… Read more »

Dave Hardin

Can we say getting verbose boys and girls. Teti put on his resume that he was in Beirut. Let me be very clear, his records show he washed out of his Scuba school in Key West, FL three days after the bombing in Beirut. That was also 1 day after the Landing in Grenada, in case he tries to feed that line of shit to anyone. At that time the Corps had taken by beloved desk away from me. I was back on the gun line with sand in my ass and yes Teti, I was on my way to Beirut. I certainly do not remember his ass being anywhere in the vicinity of Beirut. Please include this addendum with my suggested apology:

“Additionally I made claims that I was in Beirut, Lebanon. I was not. I apologize to any Marine that was and especially to those who’s sacrifice we should all honor.”

If anyone thinks I take joy in writing any of this you are dead wrong. It makes me sick that I have to. Semper Fi.

Dave Hardin

Ok, people are killing me with this already. Last post I am going to bed. This is my best guess with the records I have seen. He went to scuba school. Did not pass. Some kind of guard duty. Back to a RECON unit and then back to Scuba school which he did pass. He then gets the MOS 8653. He did not pass both schools. Best I can see in these records he is an 0311 Marine that is scuba qualified. Nothing wrong with that. He does not have 8652 which is jump qualified. He is not both jump and scuba qualified which got you the much revered 8654. You are only considered a Force RECON Marine if you are 8654. Plain and simple.

If all of this confusion exists because Teti failed that course the first time out and is ashamed to admit it, then more shame on his ass. He could have cleared all this up with his records and explaining what did happen. How hard is that. To my knowledge the course he claims he went to was not recognized until 1992 by the Corps.

Of course even if my best guess on this is correct, that still leaves the ‘Combat Veteran’ claim and a copy of a resume that is posted online with a claim he was in Beirut.

Taps, Taps, lights out.

ChipNASA

Again,
Dave,
I believe THIS is in order……

streetsweeper

Very well done, Dave Hardin!

Teti: Do yourself a favor, come clean, admit your ‘error’ correct it and move on, troop. Save yourself some lawer bucks, too. Dave Hardin just offered you the best method of getting yourself clear of this crap, that I have ever seen in my 15+ yrs of dealing with fakers and embellisher’s.

Otherwise, continue with discovery…There is stupid and then, there is stupid. Tighten up, Marine.

streetsweeper

Yea, I have about that much time. I got started in the mid 90’s after a guy in a shop I worked in, was running around telling bullshit Nam stories about shooting livestock, cutting ears off of enemy troops, kicking ’em out of helo’s and other shit that falls under “battlefield crimes”.

Mary, Chuck and Steve helped me with it, heh.

RM3(SS)

Emotional suffering??? Just reading that is giving me the PTSD!
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Maybe he needs this to feel better.

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Club Manager

I would donate money to the SF Assn just to write the Discovery request. What a flaming uninformed asshole this guy has to be. What is he going to do, respond the documents are classified.

clamsgotlegs

Doesn’t ‘someone’ have bigger problems to deal with? Like a lawsuit about a helicopter crash, two lost souls and a military type reality show/competition? Or was ‘someone’ not named in that lawsuit?

What little I saw of that two man survival show looked like the hippie knew what he was doing and the other guy was acting like a petulant child. Just my opinion, of course.

He’d be entertaining on Dude You’re Screwed tho. It would be fun to make up his survival kit. I’d include a crying baby doll.

Piss Drinking? Bear Grylls did it first AND did it better. And he is credited with actually saving a couple of kids who got lost and used knowlege gained from his show to survive. Just sayin’.

Mike96BS

Will this pissing contest ever end? SOFREP already confirmed my suspicions that this has nothing to do with stolen valor and more about a business deal gone wrong between hawke and teti.

Dave Hardin

That was kind of my take on it for a while too. I might not have even taken a closer look at his claims until he filed the lawsuit. People in grass huts should not stow thrones.

Scotty

Never has been a pissing match with me. I exposed Teti long before Hawk-eye came into the picture.

That reporter from SOFREP can pound sand.

monique marie

Mike96BS, the problem with you and others like you is that you ignore the facts in favor of Teti’s whining reasoning. Really? How about you read about the facts and then get back to us……… Dave Hardin says: December 15, 2014 at 1:45 pm Thought I might share what I have already posted on topic elsewhere and Teti’s attorney better get used to hearing it: Joe Teti It seems Joe Teti who appears in a show called Dual Survivor has filed a lawsuit against several people for calling some of his military claims into question. The bantering going on between all of these people has been eating at me. I am not one to sit on the sidelines and say nothing when I see something is wrong. Since I get asked about it, I thought I would post my opinion on the whole thing. First, it appears Teti was a Marine. He did serve with RECON. I do not believe that is being disputed by anyone. It seems to me most of this could have easily been solved by Teti a long time ago. There are several parts of this dispute I can speak directly to. By the time Teti had joined the Marine Corps I had several enlistments under my belt. I was still on active duty long after he finished his only enlistment. I am familiar with some of the units he served in. His attorney states that Teti completed the Special Forces Underwater Operations Course. Several people have done their due diligence and contacted that school only to find out there is no record of him attending. According to his records that I have seen posted online there is no record of that Army course listed. The reality is they are both partially correct. To my knowledge the Marine Corps used the Diving School at Key West and it appears Teti did attend. He then had to complete an additional transition course when he got back to his unit that made you a Combat Diver, it appears Teti did that while in Pearl Habor. The Marine Corps… Read more »

Green Thumb

Whatever.

Ranger11bv
hawke

myke here
don’t much care what the naysayers think
anyone who knows me knows money don’t drive me.

i helped that guy, i gave him my blessings to go do his thing after he did me wrong, i tried over and over to ask him to leave me be. some folks can’t get their head around it. a guy who lies like that, does alot more wrongs too. i ain’t got any kinda track record of lying, or snivelin’ or doin anyone wrong.

and shame on folks who think that lowly. i went to war when the nation called. i always served my brothers and my people. the facts are there plain to see for anyone lookin’.

he started the lie about this being business and jealousy. let the fools believe what they want, just like he spun the yarn to them. enjoy that.

and the sofrep guy is entitled to his opinion, but i disagree, regardless of teti. stealing valor is wrong- plain and simple. if you don’t see that, then there ain’t nuthin’ else to discuss here.

that man claimed to be a combat green beret, this year, to christians, speaking about god, sharing the stage with duck dynasty, for the wildfire weekend. he took money from the public claiming to be a combat green beret of haiti. that’s called lying, that’s called stealing valor.

and his bio on discovery says he had 20 yrs in special ops? try 10, part time. it says he had 10 yrs in combat? try 1, as a contractor. sorry folks, if you can’t see that as wrong, then too bad. most can.

i’m done here, gotta get back to being sued for telling the truth. and naw, we ain’t backin’ down. be well, salute to the truth keepers and happy holidays all. even those who don’t care about stolen valor- may no one steal from your stockings.
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