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Far-right activist Ammon Bundy has claimed to have approximately $50,000. He actually controls ten times that much, according to a hospital that is suing him.
Bundy, who made his name in a pair of armed standoffs against the federal government, is being sued by an Idaho hospital group, after a Bundy-led mob falsely accused the hospital of being a nexus for child sex-trafficking. Bundy repeatedly failed to participate in the hospital’s defamation lawsuit, leading a jury to order a $52 million verdict against Bundy and his co-defendants this year. Now the hospital is suing Bundy again, this time for allegedly hiding assets to avoid paying his share of the $52 million.
On Monday afternoon, Bundy appeared in court for the first time in his legal battle with St. Luke’s Health Systems. During the court appearance (which came days after a weekend arrest on contempt charges stemming from the hospital’s first lawsuit against him) Bundy insisted that he was the victim of an “an absolute political prosecution.”