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The Admonishment
This is the court record behind the Liana Shanti witness intimidation admonishment. Every quotation below is drawn verbatim from filings in Life Mastery Network LLC and Liane Wilson v. Haygarth, No. 1:25-cv-00297-JAO-RT (D. Haw.). No new claims are made — the documents speak for themselves.
On July 13, 2026 a federal judge admonished Liane Wilson — known publicly as Liana Shanti — for witness intimidation, ordering every party to stop posting about the case, its parties, and its witnesses. The trigger came three days earlier. On July 10, 2026, Judge Jill A. Otake ruled against Wilson on two motions in limine, keeping her “death threats” and “stalking” narratives out of the trial. The next morning she went to her @lianashanti account and turned on a disclosed defense witness. Three days later the court admonished her by name and ordered her to stop. This is the deflection reflex — adverse ruling, then public attack — happening in real time and now fixed in the federal record.
She had been warned more than once. This was not a first offense. Magistrate Judge Rom Trader instructed the parties at the October 30, 2025 settlement conference not to post about the case; defense counsel then put Wilson’s own lawyer on written notice again on July 2, 2026. The July 11 attack on a witness came after those warnings — which is why the court’s July 13 response was a formal admonishment carrying a sanctions warning, not another reminder.
1 · The trigger, and the attack (July 10–11)
With the death-threat and stalking material excluded on July 10, Wilson pivoted the next morning to a multi-slide attack on Amanda Brady — a witness the Defendants had formally disclosed — Brady appears on their Comprehensive Witness List (ECF 117), which came due and was filed on July 13, 2026, the very day counsel raised the intimidation and the court issued its order. In her own posts she branded the witness a perjurer, leveled immigration accusations at her and tagged federal immigration enforcement (@ICEgov) alongside criminal statutes, and twice declared she “looked forward to her arrest,” closing with a promise of an “upcoming TRUTH website” (#nomorehiding). It is the same move the record has seen before: what the court excludes, she relitigates in public — this time aimed at a named trial witness, in the ugliest available terms.
2 · The letter — “witness intimidation concerns” (ECF 124)
On July 13, defense counsel wrote Judge Otake that since the prior Friday’s hearing Wilson had been posting “threatening and harassing statements about at least one of the individuals Defendants had identified as a potential trial witness, Amanda Brady,” on or about July 11 and again that morning, and attached the screenshots. Counsel noted they had already warned Wilson’s counsel about earlier posts on July 2, and that Wilson had kept posting about the case since Magistrate Judge Trader’s October 30, 2025 settlement-conference order not to — calling the escalation to targeting a witness “particularly concerning.”
📄 ECF 124 — Witness-intimidation letter (Ing & Moritz) (PDF)
3 · The concession (ECF 125)
Within hours, Wilson’s own counsel replied to the Court: “I have instructed my client that no further postings about the trial, parties or witnesses until the completion of the trial. She understands and agrees.” He did not defend the posts, adding only that he did not “wish to engage in an email battle about the statements asserted in the email about postings prior to yesterday.”
📄 ECF 125 — Plaintiff counsel’s cessation email (Portnoy) (PDF)
4 · The order and admonishment (ECF 126)
The same day, Judge Otake entered an order directing the parties to “immediately cease” posting — on public and private accounts alike — “any statements, images, recordings, or content about this case and the parties and witnesses involved,” warning that any ambiguous post would be viewed “in a light that is least favorable to the party who posted it.” The Court expressly admonished Plaintiff Liane Wilson, confirmed with Magistrate Judge Trader that he had already ordered no such posts, and warned that “any future postings will result in the imposition of sanctions.”
📄 ECF 126 — Otake Entering Order & Admonishment (PDF)
5 · The order’s reach — in her own words
The order came down on July 13; Wilson did not act on it until July 15 — two days during which the offending material stayed up, including her July 13 Limitless Life Substack issue. That issue devoted nearly half its length to the case itself — a custody-and-abuse narrative and passages about the “August 3 courtroom” she says she will walk into — folded inside a spiritual essay, on top of a version of the dispute that misrepresented it from the start. Only on July 15 did she replace the issue with a “Temporary Edition,” telling subscribers: “a portion of it is missing right now… That is on purpose. And it is temporary… I am adhering to the Rules of Court as prescribed in an official order that was entered into the docket by the presiding judge.” Between the two versions, roughly 14,000 characters — the case-specific half of the article — were cut; the mud-and-spirituality essay stayed. In her own words, the admonishment reached her platforms — she pulled the case content two days late and framed the silence as lasting only until just after trial (“July 15 through August 8”).
📄 Her July 15 “Temporary Edition” of Limitless Life Issue 76 (redacted by Wilson) (PDF)
The shape of the redaction gives it away: the window she chose — July 15 through August 8 — brackets the August 3 trial and lifts the week after, a scheduled pause rather than a retraction; and by cutting the case-specific half specifically to “adhere to the Rules of Court,” she effectively conceded that half was about the case.
What the Liana Shanti witness intimidation order means
An admonishment is formal judicial censure — not yet a sanction, but the next violation becomes one automatically, a warning that now hangs over Wilson through trial. Just as consequentially, the screenshots of the July 11 posts are now part of the federal court record, available to the defense subject to whatever limiting instruction the court imposes. And the “upcoming TRUTH website / #nomorehiding” line signals the pattern this record has tracked from the start: whatever the verdict, the stated intent is another public platform to continue the campaign.
The record needs no gloss: the pre-trial conduct catalogued across these dispatches is the same conduct that drew a judicial admonishment and a sanctions warning on the eve of trial.
Sources: ECF Nos. 124 (letter, Ing & Moritz to Hon. J. Otake), 125 (email, J. Portnoy), and 126 (Entering Order / Admonishment, Hon. Jill A. Otake), all filed July 13, 2026, No. 1:25-cv-00297-JAO-RT (D. Haw.). Witness disclosure per Defendants’ Comprehensive Witness List, ECF 117 (filed July 13, 2026). July 10 rulings on Plaintiff’s motions in limine per the same docket. Verbatim court record; no new claims.