James Fishback, CEO of Azoria and founder of Incubate Debate, is set to make a major announcement about the Florida Governor’s race on Monday morning, which is expected to be his campaign launch.

After the announcement, Fishback is hosting a media availability at 9:30 a.m. at Florida’s Historic Capitol.

What he likely won’t talk about is how he has been accused of stalking, lying about his professional accomplishments, and failing to repay debts, as an extensive review of court documents and social media posts, and comments shows.

Fishback is expected to run for Governor on a “Florida First” platform aligned with Gov. Ron DeSantis, though DeSantis has not signaled support for Fishback. And he might want to keep it that way.

Court records show that in January, a protection injunction was filed against Fishback by a former employee at Incubate Debate, a conservative version of the National Speech and Debate Association that Fishback founded in 2019. The employee, Keinah Fort, accused Fishback of stalking. Fishback ultimately prevailed in the case, defeating the petition for protection. Still, the case involved several hearings discussing Fishback’s alleged history of domestic violence, which paints a troubling picture for a gubernatorial candidate.

Fort also appears to be Fishback’s former fiancé, with whom he broke up after learning that she didn’t think it was wrong for a friend to let her 12-year-old child skip church. He wrote that “a child can’t discern faith without hearing the Gospel and participating in the sacred mysteries,” adding that you should not “walk down the aisle” if there is not “unity on what matters most,” referring to raising children.

Fishback is also being sued by a former employer, Greenlight Capital, for misrepresenting his role at the company as “head of macro,” overseeing $100 million in gains. But the lawsuit contends Fishback was merely a research analyst.

Additionally, the lawsuit outlines years of poor performance, careless mistakes and dishonesty. It accuses him of lying and then blaming others for poor performance, and that he quit his job to avoid being fired. After he left the financial firm, the lawsuit claims that Greenlight discovered Fishback had completed very little work over several months because he was instead working nearly full-time on Incubate Debate.

But what is most troubling in the lawsuit is a suggestion that Fishback attempted to defraud his former employer into donating to his debate nonprofit, Incubate Debate. He requested the donation as part of an employee match program, but Fishback was unable to show that he had donated, going so far as to produce false evidence claiming he had.

The lawsuit further claims Fishback violated Greenlight’s confidentiality and secretly launched a competitive firm, Azoria, which he still leads, while still employed at the company, transferring confidential company materials to himself before and after he left the firm.

The lawsuit also claims Fishback has repeatedly threatened his former employer, including filing spurious legal and regulatory claims against the company and threatening to crash its holiday party.

The lawsuit alleges Fishback “has been on a campaign to harass, intimidate and defame Greenlight and its co-founder, David Einhorn, by disparaging them, by falsely inflating his title, responsibilities and contributions to Greenlight, by claiming a track record that does not belong to him.” It also claims he claimed he filed “complaints and litigation under false pretenses” and that he sought “to interfere with Greenlight’s relationships including with its customers in violation” of his legal obligations to the company.

In another lawsuit, Fishback was ordered to pay back more than $337,000 in loans to his former employer after defaulting on his payments. Greenlight has filed suit in several jurisdictions seeking to garnish funds from Fishback.

And his legal troubles are haunting him. Records show that just months after Fishback launched his own investment firm, two exchange funds voted to delist and dissolve an investment fund established, as Fishback described it, as an “S&P 500 fund without the woke shit,” citing Fishback’s legal challenges. Fishback later claimed the funds were shuttered due to his opposition to H-1B visas.

In another act of questionable fiscal transparency, Fishback recently launched a super PAC claiming to have donated $1 million to it, but records suggest no such donation has been made.

And as a GOP hopeful, Florida Politics’ review of past statements shows Fishback is also not aligned with the party’s platform or values.

Fishback is a well-known critic of Israel, having revealed himself as a Holocaust denier who has expressed support for White supremacist Nick Fuentes. He has attacked U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, calling him and fellow GOP gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds “do-nothing congressional Republicans.”

“All these two clowns do is write strongly worded letters, go on CNN and Fox News to whine, and then return to their districts pretending they accomplished something,” he wrote in a social media post.

Fishback also criticized Fine, who is Jewish, for his stance on Israel.

Fishback’s MAGA bona fides are also in question, considering he established a domain suggesting he supported Carly Fiorina over Donald Trump in 2016. The domain was FiorinaForAmerica.com.

And his opposition to H-1B visas, used to provide legal status to immigrant workers in specialty industries, is steeped in hypocrisy. Less than one year ago, he agreed with former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s comments that companies choose not to hire Americans because they celebrate “the prom queen over the math olympiad.” Fishback responded, “he’s right.”

And after Fishback’s Incubate Debate was acquired last year by the Bill of Rights Institute, which is controlled and funded by the conservative Koch family, Fishback parted ways with Bill of Rights and called the group “a total con job,” saying he had “dodged a bullet.”

Fishback has also made comments on social media that could discourage support among Black, Hispanic and women voters. He once wrote that George Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose and praised Trump for “bombing cartel boats in the Caribbean.” In another, he wrote that “we must completely reject modern-day feminism in our schools,” and he once said that encouraging young girls to consider careers other than being a stay-at-home parent constituted a “cancerous, slanderous ideology.”

Any of Fishback’s issues taken individually are troubling for a candidate. Still, taken as a whole, the allegations against him, paired with his own social media commentary, paint a picture of a candidate facing too many lines of attack to count, making a lane for him in a GOP Primary not just difficult but nonexistent. That’s especially true considering the uphill climb any Republican will have in this Primary against Donalds, who has firmly rooted himself as the front-runner through both cash — he’s raised well over $30 million so far, millions more than any opposition — and endorsements, including from President Trump.