Avi Yemini: “I know I often crowdfund for other people’s cases, couple times for myself”. In this thread I fact check Avi’s claim that he’s crowdfunded only “a couple of times” for himself (1)
To set the scene: Avi / Rebel News have registered a dedicated URL for Avi’s personal crowdfunding - “AviLegalFunddotcom”. Surely that’s not necessary for someone who’s only crowdfunded “a couple times” for themselves? (2)
Campaign 1 - Sept 2020: Avi was arrested whilst at a lockdown rally. He was never charged. A week later, he filed a lawsuit against VicPol for alleged false arrest & assault. He ended up raising at least $100k in donations (3)
Campaign 2 - Jan 2021: Avi was detained for a brief period during an Invasion Day rally. He pleaded to his supporters for financial help (4)
Avi told his followers he’d been arrested. However police subsequently confirmed no arrests had been made that day (5)
Campaign 3 - Nov 2021. Avi’s website “Kill The Bill dot com dot au” was temporarily shut down. He suspected Dan Andrews was involved & asked his followers to donate so he could take legal action to unmask the person responsible. To my knowledge nothing was ever filed (6)
Campaign 4 - Dec 2021: After Avi was denied a parliamentary media pass, he filed proceedings in the Supreme Court to challenge the decision (7)
The trial was heard in March 2022, over the course of two days. Avi was confident of a win. But he was in for a surprise. In Dec 2022, the Court handed down its judgment dismissing Avi’s lawsuit (8)
Campaign 5 - Jan 22: Avi received a letter from police asserting he was in breach of the Surveillance Devices Act by publishing police bodycam footage. He asked followers to chip in to his “legal defence fund” so he could take on VicPol. No charges were ever laid (9)
Campaign 6 -Feb 22: Avi took Twitter to Court in a bid to unmask PRGuy hoping to prove that PRGuy worked for Dan Andrews. Avi was in for another big disappointment! Avi also said he wanted to sue PRGuy for defamation but so far no lawsuit has been filed (10)
Campaign 7 - Aug 2022: Avi was denied entry to New Zealand b/c he didn’t have the right paperwork. He crowdfunded legal action to appeal the decision however no appeal has been filed (11)
At the time, Avi said NZ Immigration told him they could refuse entry pursuant to s 97 of the Immigration Act. Decisions under s 97 are not subject to appeal. Perhaps that’s why he is yet to file an appeal? (12)
Campaign 8 - Dec 2022: Avi is suing RMIT for fact checking him (13)
CONCLUSION:
What was claimed: Avi Yemini has crowdfunded for himself “a couple of times”
Verdict: Avi Yemini has crowdfunded for himself at least eight times (14)
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