Two state legislators are suing Greg Mortenson, author of a best-selling book about building schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, asking a federal court to order the seizure of donations and proceeds from his book.
The legislators’ lawyer said, The law says you cannot make misrepresentations, you cannot tell somebody something’s true and have them buy your book and make donations to your institute, when in fact it’s not true. That’s covered by fraud, deceit, unjust enrichment, many parts of the law.” -db
From the Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2011, by Kim Murphy.