Seth Rich family agrees to settle lawsuit against Fox News
Mike Brest 11/24/2020
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/seth-rich-family-agrees-to-settle-lawsuit-against-fox-news/ar-BB1bjMtA
"Rich was murdered at the age of 27 the morning of July 10, 2016, in what authorities say was a botched robbery. Conspiracy theorists began speculating that he was the source of the stolen DNC emails obtained and published by WikiLeaks.
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who is now facing possible extradition to the United States for a host of charges, helped promote the conspiracy theory. The government concluded, however, that the DNC emails were stolen by Russian military intelligence, and there’s no credible evidence pointing to Rich’s involvement.
The lawsuit, which was filed in March 2018, claimed that former Fox News guest Edward Butowsky and Fox News reporter Malia Zimmerman “induced” Rich’s parents to hire investigator Rod Wheeler to help “solve” their son’s murder, and that the three colluded “to pursue and develop a fiction” that painted Rich as the leaker. Both Butowsky and Zimmerman were sued by the Rich family as a part of their suit against Fox News.
Fox News published an article in 2017 titled Slain DNC Staffer Had Contact with WikiLeaks Say Multiple Sources which promoted baseless claims that Rich was involved in stealing the DNC emails, but the news outlet later retracted the story, saying it “was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting.”
A district court judge for the Southern District of New York dismissed the Rich family’s complaint in August 2018, but lawyers for the Rich family appealed the case to the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and judges overturned the lower court’s decision in a 28-page ruling in September 2019."
I need someone that can think a little deeper for me on this….
Why would Fox News settle if he really was the one who gave the emails to WikiLeaks?
Why did they not want the announcement of the settlement until after the election?
I might have some more questions in a bit.
"Seth Rich" Q Drops