Vicki Gunvalson recently told us that it was SHE who pulled the plug on her disastrous, litigation-packed venture into the vodka business, but her lawyer representing her ex-business partner exclusively tells Breaking Celebrity News that the plug wasn't Vicki's to pull.

It's “nothing more than an obvious charade,” Stan Johnson, counsel to Vicki's former business partner Robert Williamson III, told us exclusively. “It is absolutely clear who owns Vicki’s Vodka and who is supposed to have operational control over the project."