MDSO Deputies to Ben Affleck & Matt Damon
You Ruined Our Popularity!!!
Sues Manufacturing Firm
Revealed
“The Rip” — Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s film impressed by a 2016 drug bust in South Florida — trashed the reputations of some Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Workplace deputies … no less than based on a brand new lawsuit.
In line with reviews, the go well with was filed towards Matt and Ben’s manufacturing firm, Artists Fairness, and claims their Netflix movie unfairly broken the reps of the real-life officers concerned.
MDSO deputy Jonathan Santana advised NBC 7News … “When you rip something, you’re stealing something. We never stole a dollar.”
Santana and fellow officer Jason Smith reportedly cracked the Miami Lakes drug case in 2016 and seized over $20M within the bust.
However Santana says he’s been getting accused of stealing cash ever since Matt and Ben’s film dropped in January … and the lawsuit alleges it paints the cops as crooked.
Santana’s lawyer, Ignacio Alvarez, says the movie damage his shoppers’ reps, saying … “They portrayed police officers as dirty, they portrayed my clients as dirty.”
The go well with additionally says Smith and Santana ought to’ve been paid as consultants on the film … arguing that producers as a substitute introduced on a unique cop they are saying didn’t even work on the bust.
