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Public statement source · YT373
EYE UPDATE 10 Surgeries and 20 Months after Taban Botch
Threat to liquidate his assets to fund "three dozen" leafleters in Los Angeles. "the reputation of these doctors is completely fabricated… Google reviews, Real Self, all that stuff is controlled".
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You stupid mother better stop gaslighting me before I liquidate every single one of my assets and have three dozen motherers handing out flyers of what this guy did to my face in Los Angeles.
Recorded under the batch-32 contract's settled editorial call for the leafleting videos (factor fixed, tier capped at Moderate because the cost mechanism is the leafleting rather than any filing). The mechanism, written in so the call is auditable: the flyers are targeted at Los Angeles, where the tracked defendant practises; they carry "what this guy did to my face"; the campaign is to be scaled to "three dozen" paid people; and it is financed by liquidating his own assets, i.e. the expenditure named in the sentence is his, and the harm to the doctor is reputational rather than financial-legal. The trigger stated is not any court event but the comments under his videos. Dissent recorded alongside, per the wave-2 question about a reputational rather than legal-spend motive: on the factor's own wording — "frames the opponent's legal spend as the point of filing" — this sentence names no filing and no legal spend, and No filing-conduct factor is the defensible alternative. The reason the settled call nonetheless survives contact with my slice is a different video: 7w3lFv31MzY at 14:53 quantifies the opponent's loss ("the amount of money they would lose over the course of the next 10 20 years… you'll be wishing you wrote me that check"), which is a cost-imposition framing, merely a commercial rather than a legal one. Both readings are on the record; the parent adjudicates.
Why this classification: Threatens to liquidate his own assets to pay three dozen people to hand out flyers about the surgeon in Los Angeles, an out-of-court publicity campaign that names no filing.
Yeah. I mean, I I really can't recommend that anyone ever get cosmetic surgery because the reputation of these doctors is completely fabricated. You know, Google reviews, Real Self, all that stuff is controlled.
He names both defendants of a case that did not yet exist. C018, Tufano v. Google (Lackawanna 2025-05634, in the Google / RealSelf dispute), was filed 2025-07-25 — twenty-seven days after publication — against Google, Alphabet Inc and RealSelf Inc, and its recorded refiling basis describes the wrong pleaded as "suppression of his negative reviews on Google's platform." The grievance in this sentence is that review platforms are controlled so as to fabricate a surgeon's reputation. "Real Self" is the captions' split-word rendering of RealSelf — a caption defect this research has already documented; the spelling as captioned matches no tracked name until the words are joined.
Moderate pattern relevanceJudicial or forum bias alleged08:47
Yeah. And I'm not too confident in the lawsuit and the legal system either because in my experience uh these judges just are just going to protect the doctor and I'm not going to get anything out of it.
A bias allegation attached to a specific, identifiable proceeding (the California malpractice action) rather than to courts in general.
Moderate pattern relevanceAdverse outcome describedJudicial or forum bias alleged09:12
I've literally been like physically disabled and unable to really read anything for the beginning part of this year. And I had someone send a letter in to the California court explaining, hey, uh, you know, I'm I'm still having some vision and eye issues and I still have to get additional surgical procedures. Can we please postpone the proceedings for several months? For some reason, the judge ignored that notice to court.
A party's account of an unfavourable procedural ruling in a named forum. This is a party allegation, not a court finding, and no order to that effect appears in the recorded litigation timeline; whether such a letter was filed and how it was treated is a docket question.
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2025-05634 — Tufano v. GoogleTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 05:16 researched as bearing on this case: "the reputation of these doctors is completely fabricated… Google reviews, Real Self, all that stuff is controlled".
3:25-cv-01574 — Tufano v. Google LLC et alTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 05:16 researched as bearing on this case: "the reputation of these doctors is completely fabricated… Google reviews, Real Self, all that stuff is controlled".
25SMCV00041 — Frank Tufano v. Mehryar Ray Taban, MD et al.Transcript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 08:47 researched as bearing on this case: No confidence in the Taban lawsuit: "these judges just are going to protect the doctor".