Navy SEAL "No Easy Day" author sues lawyer for bad advice

Ex-SEAL author sues city lawyer
Blames him for trouble with bin Laden book
The Journal Gazette
Rebecca S. Green
November 7, 2014

There was money to be made with the publication of a book, movie rights and continued speaking engagements for retired Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette.

But when his book, “No Easy Day,” an account of the killing of Osama bin Laden, drew the ire of his brother SEALs and the U.S. government, Bissonnette targeted a local attorney, accusing him and his former employer of negligence in helping him ensure the book contained no inappropriate disclosures of classified information.

On Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Bissonnette – under his pseudonym Mark Owen – sued Kevin Podlaski and the Fort Wayne law firm of Carson Boxberger LLP.

In his 20-page lawsuit, Bissonnette, a former member of the clandestine Navy SEAL Team 6, accused Podlaski of “committing (Bissonnette) to a conflict with the government that he could not win.”
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