Roundup Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Arrested on Extortion Charges (2)

Federal officials have arrested a Virginia lawyer accused of trying to extort a chemical manufacturer in connection with litigation over a common weedkiller.

According to the Justice Department, Timothy Litzenburg was arrested Dec. 17 for allegedly threatening “to inflict substantial financial and reputational harm” if an unnamed company didn’t provide a $200 million payment disguised as a “consulting agreement.”

Litzenburg helped represent a plaintiff who secured a critical jury verdict against Bayer AG in 2018 after alleging that the company’s product, Roundup, caused his terminal non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

His website references the decision and says, “In the wake of that victory, ...