Author of Trump-Russia dossier wins libel case in US court
Source: The Guardian
The former MI6 officer Christopher Steele has won a legal battle in the United States against three Russian oligarchs who sued him over allegations made in his famous dossier about the Trump campaign and its links with Moscow.
The oligarchs Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan claimed that Steele and his intelligence firm Orbis defamed them in the dossier, which was leaked and published in early 2017. The Russians own stakes in Moscow-based Alfa Bank. All are billionaires.
On Monday, a judge in the district of Columbia, Anthony C Epstein, upheld a motion by Steele to have the oligarchs case thrown out. Epstein did not determine whether the dossier which a furious President Trump has repeatedly dismissed as fake was accurate or not accurate.
But the judge concluded that it was covered by the US first amendment, which protects free speech. He ruled that the oligarchs had failed to prove a key part of their case: that Steele knew that some information in the dossier was inaccurate, and had acted with reckless disregard as to its falsity.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/21/author-of-trump-russia-dossier-wins-libel-case-in-us-court-christopher-steele
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Nitram
(22,822 posts)Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)While the radical right moans about frivolous litigation, the radical is the biggest abuser of courts and the legal process.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)robbob
(3,531 posts)Hell just go on tv and say the judge could not say the Steele dossier was accurate. A judge, people! And he could not SAY the dossier was accurate!
You get the idea.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The DEEP STATE has struck again!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)Countdown to conservative hostile rage and death threats... 5...4...3...2...1
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Secret intelligence report leaked by BuzzFeed.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)Judge should have ruled that way instead of whether or not Steele knew it could be false.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)I've got a lot of papers in a locked lower drawer that I better shred quick.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)......to Russian oligarchs. They're a vengeful lot that "send messages" to others.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Go America!
Delphinus
(11,831 posts)to read this. Thanks!