Ex-DraftKings Exec in Company Secrets Row Hits Out at ‘False’ Allegations

A former DraftKings executive director accused by the sports betting whale of collective espionage has called the allegations “entirely fabricated,” in a unexampled filing to a MA federal court.

DraftKings sued its former senior vice-president of Growth, Michael Hermalyn, on Monday. The causa claims he plotted for over a yr to skip over ship to competitor Fanatics, taking with him secret selective information around DraftKings VIP clients, along with its Super Bowl business organization plan.

Hermalyn “timed his going and theft of confidential entropy to co-occur with the critical years leading up to the Super Bowl to farther a connive to irreparably interfere with DraftKings’ client and concern relationships by pursuing those relationships at Fanatics using the secret information and goodwill that he obtained at DraftKings,” it claims.

‘Shocked and Disappointed’

Hermalyn says that’s a bunch up of nonsense.

When i decided to leave, I knew from past go through with DraftKings that they would potential add up after me sharply and malign me as they hold through with(p) with others,” he wrote in a declaration to the court. “However, i am shocked and disappointed to regard they would tour so far as they hold and really pretend so many completely sour and fancied accusations against me in court.”

Hermalyn claims he did non make an extend to conjoin Fanatics until January 27, 2014, and denies on the Q.T. discussing engagement with Fanatics CEO Michael Rubin or anyone else at the companionship inward 2013.

He also denied sharing any documents with fanatics or having access code to any DraftKings files after his resignation.

‘Horrid’ Accusation

Moreover, he said the allegement that he falsely claimed to follow mourning the expiry of a friend so he could take clip off to aviate to L.A. for contract bridge negotiations was “horrid.”

“DraftKings’ accusal that i falsely claimed to live mourning the death of my friend inwards tardily January is both incorrect and disappointing,” Hermalyn said. “The calendar week of Jan 29 was in particular difficult for me emotionally. In addition to grieving the death of my friend, i was contemplating an opportunity to micturate a important advancement in my vocation by connection Fanatics VIP … which meant an straightaway go to California, uprooting my family.”

DraftKings claimed in the cause that Hermalyn “fraudulently attempted to ground Calif. abidance during … the call so he could resign from DraftKings and render to quash his noncompete agreements inward California body politic court.”

As of Jan 1, 2014, California’s Business & Professions Code prohibits an employer from enforcing a non-compete agreement no matter of whether the declaration was signed alfresco of California.

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