Russian bank owners sue BuzzFeed over Donald Trump dossier publication

[Jacque67 7,328]

The owners of a Russian bank are suing BuzzFeed for publishing a dossier containing unproven claims that the businessmen were involved in bribing Russian President Vladimir Putin years ago and took part in an alleged Russian government scheme to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan of Alfa Bank filed the defamation lawsuit Friday in state court in Manhattan, seeking unspecified damages from BuzzFeed as well as editor-in-chief Ben Smith, reporter Ken Bensinger and editors Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs.

The suit seized on Smith admitting that at the time BuzzFeed published the dossier in January he knew aspects of the dossier were wrong and that other aspects of it were unproven. That admission indicates BuzzFeed had knowledge sufficient to meet the legal standard for libel, the court complaint says.

 

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/05/26/trump-dossier-russian-bank-owners-sue-buzzfeed-238876

Edited May 27, 2017 by Jacque67

[Jacque67 7,328]

Now in discovery phase!!! Delish!!! 

Burning down the house.

 

as an aside , trump has cancelled his Iowa rally scheduled for next week-SAD!!!

kanpai!!!

[jg121783 3,921]

Oh the scandal. Suing a fake news publication for putting out slanderous stories. So shocking.