Victory [ZeroDarkTony] / October 29, 2026 / YouTube / victory
He renamed his legal fund the “ZDT Justice Fund” on stream, saying “we are going to get some more justice.”
Anthony R. D’Amato, Jr., also known as ZeroDarkTony, opened an Oct. 29, 2026 YouTube livestream by celebrating a court win. That morning, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Holly L. Hancock-Goode granted in part his motion for attorney fees in his civil harassment case against Jarred Brooks and awarded him $10,725. He had asked for $23,197.40. D’Amato then warned people he has sent cease-and-desist letters that the letters are “the first phase of a lawsuit,” said “the John Doe cases are coming,” and asked viewers to give to what he called the “ZDT Justice Fund.” Legal fund: About 19 minutes in, D’Amato asked his moderator Wild Coconuts, whom he calls “Coco,” to “drop the links” for his Cash App and, it appears, his Venmo (the transcript reads “venom”). “This is the justice fund. It’s gone from the freedom fund and now it’s the justice fund again because we are going to get some more justice,” he said, adding that “the ZDT justice fund is now open for business.” About two minutes later he thanked a viewer “for the cash app.” He did not say which case the money is for. The archived chat log starts after this point, so HNZ could not confirm whether links were posted. There is no public accounting of the fund."The John Doe Cases Are Coming … We Are Going to Serve Them with Restraining Orders"
D’Amato spent the first minutes cursing at Brooks, whom he later called “Jared.” He said Brooks “has been court-ordered to go to the financial assessment office so they can figure out what he’s going to pay,” and that if he doesn’t pay, “he’ll be found in contempt.” The Oct. 29 minute order says nothing about a financial assessment office. It tells the two sides to agree on a payment plan within 30 days; if they don’t, the full amount is due at once. D’Amato also said a motion Brooks filed was “denied.” The minute order rules only on D’Amato’s fee motion, and on Oct. 16 the same judge granted Brooks’s request to give his income information to the court confidentially. D’Amato also named Jen De Leon among people he said pushed Brooks into the fight and would now leave him to pay alone. He then turned to people who have received his cease-and-desist letters. He said they “have not ceased nor have they desisted,” called the letters “the first phase of a lawsuit,” and said he is writing declarations to file against “some of these other shitheads.” He said John Doe cases are coming, that “we are going to serve them with restraining orders,” and that once he knows who they are, “we’re able to file criminal charges.” A private person cannot file criminal charges; he can report to police, and prosecutors decide. He named no case numbers, courts or lawyers for any of the new filings.Exhibit A
On the ruling, D’Amato says, “But this lying motherfucker tried to go in there and lie again.” Then, to Brooks: “You’re lucky I don’t change my fucking mind and sue your fucking ass for that bullshit. But I’m a man of my word, unlike you, cunt.”Timestamps: 00:01:39 – 00:03:33 | Watch with a free account
In this clip he puts the award at “around $10,700” and says Brooks must go to “the financial assessment office.”Exhibit B
He says “whatever motion that was filed” was denied, then signs off to Brooks: “Better get your little pay stubs and go over there to the financial assessor, fuck face. Bye. Don’t talk about me.”Timestamps: 00:04:32 – 00:06:27 | Watch with a free account
He also says he is “allowed to say” that he will sue someone and that he will use evidence from one case in another, calling that “very common.” He did not say what Brooks’s motion was.
Exhibit C
Turning to people he says stole his intellectual property, he says: “And now for what you have done to me, you are going to pay a dear price in that courtroom because I have you 100 fucking percent.”Timestamps: 00:07:20 – 00:12:08 | Watch with a free account
He tells cease-and-desist recipients they “can count on at least that being on your tab at least,” calls the ruling “the first domino to fall because there’s more coming,” and says he has “so much more evidence” against others. He did not say what intellectual property he means or who took it.Exhibit D
He says he will use the ruling against others: “And I am going to be able to attach [this order] to my declaration that I’m filing against some of these other shitheads because they’re all, you know, they’re working with each other, they’re in each other’s chat giving each other advice, making videos.” (The transcript reads “the disorder”; “this order” is the likely word.)Timestamps: 00:12:47 – 00:14:42 | Watch with a free account
He then asks whether “all you Jen De Leon’s” will help Brooks pay. He makes no legal claim against De Leon in this clip.Exhibit E
To the letter recipients: “I will tell you to the people that I got the cease and desist letters to, y’all are in some deep shit. You are in very deep shit.” If they “double down and try and get me to freak out or whatever,” he says, “it’s not going to happen.”Timestamps: 00:16:45 – 00:18:42 | Watch with a free account
“I can’t tell you what to do or not to do, but it would be ill-advised for you to continue down the path that you’re going,” he says, then: “one down, about five to go.”Exhibit F
D’Amato says, “There’s no venom, there’s no animosity. We’re just gonna take action.” He then asks Coco to post the payment links and calls it “the justice fund” now, no longer “the freedom fund.”Timestamps: 00:19:23 – 00:24:22 | Watch with a free account
Asked to repeat the figure, he says, “$10,725. He has been court ordered to pay.” He adds, “I am being benevolent enough that I am not suing him into oblivion.”Exhibit G
He returns to the letter recipients: “Just keep in mind that if you got one of those cease and desist letters, you will, yes, consequences for actions. Imagine that. And some of these individuals never thought they were going to get a cease and desist letter, and they have not ceased nor have they desisted.”Timestamps: 00:29:13 – 00:31:23 | Watch with a free account
He adds that “we’re going to turn off the oxygen on some of these people,” without saying what he means.Exhibit H
He says again what the letters are for: some recipients “never thought they would see the day when they would get a cease and desist letter from me, which is by the way, the first phase of a lawsuit. So I’m going to write up some things for these degenerates and continue my path of justice.”Timestamps: 00:32:04 – 00:34:08 | Watch with a free account
“I’m going to have the same amount of mercy that they had on me, and I’ve been nice to Jared, I’ve been nice about this. I’m not going to be so nice with these,” he says. The court’s minute orders list Brooks’s first name as “Jared.”Exhibit I
He lays out what comes next: “The John Doe cases are coming and we are going to have a big old Scooby-Doo moment. We are going to serve them with restraining orders and when we know who they are then we’re able to file criminal charges.”Timestamps: 00:36:38 – 00:40:11 | Watch with a free account
“I’ll just have to finish up writing some of these declarations and get some of these cases filed,” he says. He adds that there are “some things in the works that I cannot discuss,” that “some people” are “going to very much regret their behavior,” and that it is all “totally legal.” Of everything D’Amato described on this stream, HNZ has confirmed one item in the court record: the $10,725 fee award. He gave no case number for any of the John Doe suits, restraining orders or declarations he said are coming.Sources
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- Date: 2026-10-29
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