[wplug] Need to protect my websites with a corporation

[Mike Semcheski]

Apologies for the late reply here... I tend to go through my personal email
every other month these days.

I don't know the back story here - something about Joomla and VPS's and
quango's of shady government contractors.  John is concerned about
retribution for a website he's putting together.  Seems like discussing
this on a (potentially) Google indexed mailing list (
http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/2015-January/035510.html) may not be
the best course of action if discretion is the key.

If you're most deeply concerned about personal retribution, then the one
good option you have is to QUIT WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD. There's no anonymity on
the internet, whether behind a registrar's anonymizer or incorporation.

Otherwise, your best bet is to put all the code on github.  If everything
that is needed to implement your muckraking is freely available, then if
there is retribution, either personal, technical or legal, well the horse
is already out of the barn.  Someone else can recreate what you've built.

Really just replying because I'm curious how the whole thing turned out.



On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:55 PM, John Lewis <oflameo2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for your response Doug.
>
> Lucky I don't have any pending litigation because I am not as good as a
> web developer as I should be so there so there is nothing to be
> litigated on outer than a couple of bare Joomla sites with no extensions.
>
> I don't have anything going on with contractors currently, I just want
> to avoid getting in any hot water after I embarrass them after people
> realize how much easer it is to find out how the government works using
> my project compared to their dated websites.
>
> I would really like to be removed enough from the company so that if
> someone tries to destroy it I don't get PWNED or OWNED personally after
> a successful attack.
>
> On 01/21/2015 07:59 PM, Doug Green wrote:
> > Staying out of the fray, here's a Direct Response to the OP
> >
> > This is NOT legal advice and I'm NOT a lawyer:
> >
> > I have started two corps, one LLC and one S-corp. My understanding of
> corporate law given your circumstances is that you will NOT be able to
> "shield yourself" from any pending litigation. You mentioned that they were
> contractors, so presumably you had a contract with them to perform some
> kind of activity. If you so much as Signed this document without your
> corporate title (relation to corporation), it is a personal contract and
> outside the boundaries of any corporate entity. Same goes with Payment. Did
> you pay them with a corporate account?? (Rhetorical question, No need to
> answer this)
> >
> > All of this falls under the category of Piercing the Corporate Veil,
> which is what you'll want to Google. Basically they can establish that you
> Are Not a separate entity from the corporation and are therefore Personally
> responsible for all corporate actions.
> >
> > Your best, least expensive bet is probably to discuss your differences
> with them and try to reach a mutually agreeable solution. In short, go Hug
> It Out.
> >
>
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