UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
STEPHEN RUSSELL,
Case No. 18-cv-06691-RS Plaintiff, 11 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT NIR MAMAN, et al., 13 Defendants.
I. INTRODUCTION The facts of this case read like a Tom Clancy novel, and the docket reads like a fact pattern written by a civil procedure professor. Stephen Russell is an investor and entrepreneur. Upon returning from a business trip to Ukraine, he discovered his house had been broken into. He hired several security consultants, who told him there was an eavesdropping device in an electrical outlet. They stoked his fears about various baroque threats, and he paid them handsomely for investigation and protection. The principal security personnel were Ryan Micheletti, George Akkelquist, and Nir Maman. After Maman sent Russell an invoice with a $2 million charge to which he had not agreed, he became concerned he was being bilked. So, he did some…