The bank also denied it made "representations which were false" in relation to possible fees.
Since the AWU and Melhem concluded the deal and issued invoices, some of which were false, they are the ones singled out for findings they may have breached fiduciary duties, not Shorten.
It says, "Goodell, speaking publicly about certain Saints executives, coaches and players, in relation to purported efforts designed to injure players, made public statements concerning Vilma which were false, defamatory and injurious to Vilma's professional and personal reputation".
The complaint details how Bundy and four unnamed co-conspirators worked together to recruit the supporters who massed on the Bundy ranch in 2014, using the internet to disseminate messages to a network of like-minded people, some of which were false and designed to inflame the passions of rightwing activists.
Dr Udalski's group, called OGLE (the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, a name that reflects the original, and different, purpose of the survey), made their list public in February 2002.A race then began to work out which of the 59 cases were genuine planetary transits, and which were false positives: eclipses due to companion stars, for example.
This makes his later claim that "everyone seemed fixated on the initial allegations made by the DA, which were false," harder to parse.
