There’s no such thing as a quiet offseason for Shaquille O’Neal, who always seems to be adding another 25 pounds nickname in the summer. A new lawsuit alleges he should be getting another one, but The Big Guy Who Plants Child Pornography To Frame An Employee And Throws A Different Computer Entirely In A Lake is a bit wordy.
New Details Emerge In Lawsuit Alleging Shaquille O’Neal Planted Evidence On Employee, Tossed Computer In Lake
A RadarOnline “exclusive” provides more details on this lawsuit, which has been around for a while, and that’s just one of the stranger ones.
Among the others:
- Former employee Shawn Darling, the plaintiff in the suit, alleges that O’Neal conspired with current and former law enforcement to frame him for a criminal offense...
- ...which was necessary because Darling, “who has an extensive criminal background,” was employed as O’Neal’s IT guy at first for work on “various O’Neal family projects,” then had his hacking expertise enlisted in an effort to retrieve information from O’Neal’s mistress, Alexis Miller, who was involved in a legal battle with O’Neal...
- ...which led to O’Neal, with “his houseboy Joe Caballero,” tossing a computer that Darling had “performed a Defense Department type wipe” on into a lake behind O’Neal’s house, in an effort to dispose of evidence of retrieving personal data from Miller by nefarious means...
- ...which could really have been the end of the story, except O’Neal later took another mistress, Vanessa Lopez, and when Darling discovered this, he reached out to Lopez and found evidence that O’Neal had been trying to break into Lopez’ phone system...
- ...which provoked the alleged aforementioned attempt to frame Darling, which “enlisted the help of an active Arizona detective to master a computer program that would allegedly allow him to frame Darling for possession of child pornography so that Shaq could confiscate the computer holding evidence of his affair with Lopez.”
Of course, the fun thing about civil lawsuits is that virtually anything can be alleged before a plaintiff has to produce clear and convincing evidence in a court of law, which occasionally produces articles full of progressively weirder bullet points like this one. Darling certainly has a lot of sordid allegations to make about Shaq, but we’re a long way from knowing whether any of them are true, even if Shaq allegedly sends messages like this one about why getting Darling out of his hair is necessary:
O’Neal wrote back “ok but in the meantime o boy needs to be put in jail, we have way too many law enforcement connections to let a criminal try to get over on mine o mine, we don’t need any distractions as we deal with Harvard guy, shoe line guy, restaurant guy, real estate guy and everything we are planning to do after basketball life...“In the interim, I’d like to recommend this story to whatever Chinese news agency has been doing CGI reenactments of events, because I thought the source material is ripe for some poorly animated hilarity, and that was before I read the part about Shaq having a “Harvard guy.”
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