[11] In 2007, Kouvalis was acquitted in the Ontario Court of Justice for allegedly uttering a death threat against Jeff Watson, a Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament.
[12] Kouvalis was accused of saying if he could kill Watson "with [his] bare hands and get away with it, I would," on July 13, 2005 while he was serving as campaign manager to Conservative candidate Rick Fuschi.
[13] Justice Lloyd Dean concluded that the words were simply an "expression of frustration" and merely spoken in the heat of the moment, which often occurs in politics.
[12] In 2011, Kouvalis' firm received a few complaints through the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association over phone calls in the Montreal electoral riding of Mount Royal.
[15] The calls were not of concern to the association, but the ongoing strategic use of Campaign Research's Gold Seal membership in the MRIA brought the action by the group.
[17] Kouvalis resigned as manager of Kellie Leitch's Conservative leadership campaign in February 2017 after he became the focus of media coverage for a series of posts on Twitter calling Emmett Macfarlane, a University of Waterloo political science professor, a "cuck" and a "traitor" after Macfarlane criticized Leitch's proposed policies and compared her to Donald Trump.