“I’m Not Going To Be Rolled Over & Squeezed”: Dana Brunetti Wallops Cavalry Media With $1M & More Breach-Of-Contract Suit

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Not sure if Cavalry Media needs someone to come to the rescue, but the shaky shingle may now see its whole house of alleged cards come tumbling down.

Already trampled by financial ills, big-name exits and lawsuits related to the fatal 2021 shooting on Alec Baldwin’s Rust, the company run by Keegan Rosenberger and Ishan Sakena now faces a dirty-laundry lawsuit from former founder Dana Brunetti.

A year and change after Brunetti, the House of Cards executive producer and ex-Cavalry chief content officer, headed out the door to pursue his own projects (as they always say), he is now suing the company for more than $1 million in “wrongfully” withheld wages and more.

Or, as the lawsuit quotes Brunetti declaring to CEO Rosenberger in a tense digital November 13, 2022 exchange in which he learned he wasn’t going to get paid his $750,000-per-year salary: “I’m not going to be rolled over and squeezed.” “On information and belief, Plaintiff alleges that Defendant Rosenberger and Ishan Saksena raised several million dollars in seed funding for Cavalry Media projects but used that funding for other personal projects instead of using the money to pay Cavalry Media employees, thereby leaving Cavalry Media underfunded including at the time of incorporation,” read the lawsuit alleging breach of contract and other claims filed by the Joseph Farzam Law Firm. “On information and belief, Plaintiff alleges Defendant Rosenberger and Defendant Saksena used seed funding and other monies paid to Cavalry Media for personal use,” reads the complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.