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A man that was convicted of stealing more than a million dollars from Dave Matthews Band violinist Boyd Tinsley is now suing him for more than $10 million. The Daily Progress reports that lawyers for the band have asked the Richmond Circuit Court to throw out the case, claiming it’s “little more than extortion.”

Getty A. Rothenberg, who worked as Tinsley’s personal assistant and property manager for 12 years, was convicted of embezzling from the violinist between 2009 and 2012. He plead guilty to wire fraud in 2013, and was sentenced to nine months in prison and ordered to pay $1.25 million in restitution. Rothenberg could have recieved a harsher penalty, but prosecutors told the judge that Tinsley had requested a lenient sentence so that Rothenberg could seek treatment.

Rothenberg was released on November 26 of last year, and has now filed a suit alleging that Tinsley was a sexual predator and claiming that the violinist sabotaged an opportunity for him to represent tennis player Andy Roddick.

Tinsley’s lawyers are arguing that the purpose of the lawsuit is to ruin their client’s reputation and extort him, writing, “Rothenberg uses the complaint as a mere platform to publish gratuitous, lurid allegations of sexual crimes and improprieties by Tinsley, some of which allegedly occurred as many as twenty years ago…Rothenberg, represented by more than one attorney, repeatedly has threatened to file civil complaints containing baseless and inflammatory allegations against Tinsley unless he pays Rothenberg millions of dollars in a purported settlement.”