About a year after Tami Longaberger sued current Longaberger parent JRJR Networks over $1 million she loaned the company, JRJR has countered, suing Longaberger for fraud.
In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Texas, JRJR — previously known as CVSL — accuses her of failing to disclose millions of dollars in tax liabilities when JRJR Networks bought the Newark-based company in 2013.
Tami Longaberger was traveling and not available to comment Monday. However, her attorneys said the suit “lacks merit.”
“(We) anticipate it will be vigorously defended,” said Steven W. Tigges of Zeiger, Tigges & Little LLP.
The suit, filed in District Court of Dallas County, Texas, says that when JRJR Networks bought the Longaberger Co., it was unaware that the company had made a tax increment financing agreement with Newark on May 1, 1996, for