Tea Party Nation founder disbarred

The founder of Tea Party Nation has been disbarred for trying to swindle timeshare owners into thinking they canceled their timeshares — and taking off with the money he earned from the fraudulent transactions, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled.

In all, more than 90 consumer fraud complaints were filed against Tennessee attorney Judson Wheeler Phillips, a senior partner with Nashville-based Castle Law Group and founding member of the conservative Tea Party group. Federal lawsuits were also filed against Phillips by Westgate Resorts and Orange Lake Resorts, both based in Orlando, as well as Las Vegas-based Diamond Resorts and Fort Lauderdale-based Berkley Resorts.

The Supreme Court of Tennessee disbarred Phillips last month, after intense backlash from timeshare companies who claimed the lawyer was working with marketing companies to go after their timeshare owners around the country with pitches to cancel their timeshares.

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