Rayonier files amended complaint against Mullin

Rayonier/Raydient

September 12, 2019

"Rayonier filed its second amended complaint against Mike Mullin for his repeated breaches of fiduciary duty to the company. The court dismissed Rayonier’s prior complaint, with instruction to file an amended complaint to address perceived deficiencies.

For eight years, Mullin was Rayonier’s lawyer and he and his firm accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to secure development regulations that would allow Rayonier to meet its recreational development obligations through the donation of lands for public use. Mullin was successful, and these standards were adopted into the East Nassau Community Planning Area (“ENCPA”) and Nassau County’s comprehensive plan, paving the way for Rayonier to dedicate almost 12,000 acres within the 24,000 acre ENCPA for public use over the life of the development. Mullin himself developed and negotiated the establishment of these development regulations, and successfully secured the approvals for the ENCPA using only land donations.

When Mullin joined Nassau County, he turned against his former client and worked to undo the very development regulations Rayonier retained and paid him to develop. At the behest of members of the Nassau County Board of Commissioners ("BOCC"), Mullin attacked his former client and the regulations on which Rayonier depended, using his knowledge of Rayonier’s needs in an attempt to extort additional illegal exactions. Rayonier demanded that he stop the violations of his duties to his former client and that the County act to prevent his breaches, but instead, Mullin and the BOCC acted in concert against Rayonier. Rayonier’s complaint seeks injunctions against both Mullin and Nassau County to bring an end to this malicious campaign, an effort that has caused Rayonier millions of dollars in damage and has wrongfully set back the largest and highest quality development under way in Nassau County."

A complete version of Raydient/Rayonier's statement along with copies of the files can be found at https://info.raydientplaces.com/thetruth.