Los Angeles July 3 (IANS) Marvel Comics icon Stan Lees former business manager has pleaded not guilty to charges that he filed a false police report amid claims of elder abuse.
According to the Los Angeles City Attorney s office the former business manager on Monday pleaded not guilty to the charges reports hollywoodreporter.com.
Keya Morgan pleaded not guilty on two counts of filing a false report of an emergency and two counts of filing a false report of a crime along with a probation violation according to authorities.
All charges are misdemeanours. The case is set for a pretrial hearing on July 26.
As per a transcript of the call on May 30 cited by the New York Daily News Morgan claimed "three strangers" broke into Lee s house locked out his security and possibly were "harming" Lee.
The strangers were in fact two Los Angeles police officers and a social worker performing a welfare check. Morgan allegedly tried to disrupt the meeting with the call.
In mid-June Morgan said via Twitter that his legal trouble and reports of elder abuse against Lee were "fake news".
He tweeted: "For over 10 years I have shown nothing but love respect and kindness to Stan Lee his wife a fact he has repeated countless time. I have never ever abused my dear friend. Everything you read in the #FakeNews is pure malicious lies and I will 100 per cent prove it. The truth will come out."

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