Peeples v. Carolina Container, LLC

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA ROME DIVISION Lloyd C. Peeples, III, Plaintiff, Case No. 4:19-cv-21-MLB v. Carolina Container, LLC and William Ponder, Defendants. ________________________________/ OPINION & ORDER This case arises from a botched wire transfer. Defendant Carolina Container, LLC was supposed to wire $1.71 million (“the Holdback Amount”) to Plaintiff Lloyd C. Peeples under an asset purchase agreement. But it ended up wiring that money to a crook who hacked into the email account of Plaintiff’s attorney (Defendant William Ponder) and used…