Chris Wilson, Head of Data at Ron DeSantis’s Never Back Down super PAC, was fired and sued by his former employer, Qorvis Communications, which accused him and his wife of diverting profits by secretly billing clients directly, and stealing some 28,000 confidential files to help establish a rival firm. An arbitration concluded, in 2008, that Wilson had to pay the firm a sum of $366,037.72 for a breach of his contractual duty of loyalty:
In its complaint, Qorvis alleged that Wilson, along with others, conspired to form their own business in the fall of 2003 and thereafter “proceeded to divert lucrative business opportunities to themselves and divide hundreds of thousands of dollars in proceeds among themselves.” It also alleged that Wilson and others “downloaded over 14 gigabytes (28,404 individual files) of Qorvis’ highly confidential and proprietary information” for purposes of pursuing the new endeavor. The 16-count complaint contended that Wilson breached the 2003 employment agreement, breached his duty of loyalty and duty to maintain confidentiality of employer information, interfered with contractual and business relationships between Qorvis and others, misappropriated trade secrets, converted Qorvis’ property and trade secrets for his own commercial use, and committed computer fraud.
Wilson recently expressed irritation when his polling company, WPA Intelligence, was exposed for placing an article in Newsweek, promoting an anti-Trump poll without disclosing that he works directly for DeSantis’s super PAC.
Wilson also worked as a data guru for Ted Cruz’s failed presidential campaign in 2016, as well as for anti-Trump Governor Kevin Stitt (OK), anti-Trump Senator Kevin Cramer (ND), and RINO Governor Brian Kemp in Georgia. He has also worked for the failed campaigns of Martha McSally in Arizona, Adam Laxalt and Dean Heller in Nevada, as well as Matt Rosendale in Montana.
While at Qorvis, one of Wilson’s roles was to assist Saudi Arabia in its efforts to rehabilitate its image following 9/11, which involved 15 Saudi hijackers, some with links to the Saudi government.
Pfizer was another “major client” of Wilson’s firm, who is also reported to have “worked closely” with Karl Rove, a Bush-world RINO and Never Trumper.
Wilson’s partner and chief operating officer Bryan Allen, who contributes the ‘A’ to WPA Intelligence, is an alumnus of Public Opinion Strategies (POS), an even more controversial DeSantis pollster with links to Rove, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, and even George Soros.
Allen is also an anti-Trump partisan, accusing the former president of “going full infowars on 9-11” and alleging the only difference between him and Bernie Sanders is that “Bernie really believes the crap that comes out of his mouth.”
Such sentiments are common at WPA Intelligence, with Chief Research Officer Trevor Smith claiming that Trump “is the establishment” and that his election fundraising is a “scam”, for example.
Wilson is currently being sued by his ex-wife Kathryn, who alleges “he ripped off a data software, Archimedes, that they built together when they were married, but that she acquired in the divorce. She is claiming that the version he’s using now to collect data on voters, Bonfire, is just a modification of Archimedes and she’s demanding that he stop using it, along with other damages.”
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