- The Quigleys have collected.
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- The Anti-Defamation League's payment of more than $12
million for defaming them has been transferred to their bank, according
to a Thursday press release from their lawyer, Jay Horowitz of Denver.
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- Bruce DeBoskey, director of the ADL's Mountain States
region, did not return a telephone call seeking comment.
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- The money went to the former Evergreen couple more than
nine years after ADL officials in Colorado denounced the Quigleys as anti-Semites,
based on illegally recorded secret interceptions of the Quigleys' telephone
conversations.
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- William and Dorothy "Dee" Quigley had feuded
with their Jewish neighbors, Mitchell and Candice Aronson. The Aronsons
contacted the ADL in 1994 after listening to the Quigleys' phone conversations
on a Radio Shack police scanner.
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- They said they heard the Quigleys discuss a campaign
to drive them away with Nazi scare tactics.
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- The ADL advised the Aronsons to start recording the conversations.
Hundreds of hours of recordings were turned over to Jefferson County prosecutors,
who charged the Quigleys with hate crimes - only to drop the charges, and
pay the Quigleys $75,000, after listening to the recordings and concluding
the remarks were made in jest.
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- The Quigleys won a $10 million verdict against the ADL
in federal court in 2000. An appeals court upheld that verdict, and the
U.S. Supreme Court refused last week to review the case.
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- With interest, the $10 million verdict grew to $12,169,557.61.
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- http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_2723185,00.html
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