Aaron Rich, the brother of the Democratic National Committee staffer who was killed in 2016, filed a lawsuit on Monday against right-wing activists, individuals, and conservative media companies that he believes all had a hand in peddling an unfounded conspiracy theory surrounding the unsolved murder of his brother.

Aaron Rich filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia on Monday. The suit claims that Ed Butowsky, a Texas businessman; Matt Couch, host of America First Media; America First Media, and The Washington Times pushed a conspiracy theory about Aaron Rich that used his past work as a defense contractor to allege he worked alongside his brother to leak DNC documents to Wikileaks, then played a part in his murder to cover his wrongdoing.

"Defendants have falsely accused Aaron of stealing documents, receiving a payout from WikiLeaks into his personal bank account, obstruction of justice, and being an accessory to his own brother's murder," Michael Gottlieb, attorney for Aaron Rich said in a statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/seth-richs-brother-files-lawsuit-against-washington-times-conservative-activists

The Washington Times' initial article, which the lawsuit said was published both online and in print, stated that it was "well known in intelligence circles that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron Rich, downloaded the DNC emails and was paid by Wikileaks for that information."

The article cited no evidence to support the assertion.

"The Washington Times now does not have any basis to believe any part of that statement to be true, and The Washington Times retracts it in its entirety," the newspaper's Monday retraction said.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/01/media/washington-times-aaron-rich/index.html

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/sep/30/retraction-aaron-rich-and-murder-seth-rich/

>>6142321

On May 30, 2018, I asked lawyers representing Aaron Rich to authorize Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Kim Dotcom to reveal what they know about payments to Mr. Rich or his brother, murdered Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich. Those lawyers have been stonewalling ever since.

On Friday evening, The Gateway Pundit, LawAndCrime.com, and Worldnetdaily broke the news that Mr. Rich’s lawyers had subpoenaed the Twitter records – including direct messages – of a number of right-leaning publications and authors. To the gullible masses, it might seem like Mr. Rich’s attorneys are aggressively trying to find the truth. In reality, it is the exact opposite: Mr. Rich’s attorneys are trying to intimidate anyone who asks inconvenient questions.

Like me, for example. My personal Twitter account was one of those covered by the subpoena. In other words, Mr. Rich’s lawyers tried to get the private communications of their opposing counsel by serving a subpoena on Twitter.

http://lawflog.com/?p=1937

>>6142407

Mr. Rich’s primary attorneys are partner Michael J. Gottlieb and associate Meryl Governski of Boies Schiller Flexner, LLP, a left-wing law firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Mr. Gottlieb served as associate counsel to President Obama, and Ms. Gottlieb is a former public relations flack for CNN.

>>6142417

With regard to Seth Rich, I am well aware that a dead person cannot assert defamation claims. His estate, on the other hand, might, have standing to enforce any confidentiality agreements that he made with Wikileaks, and therein lies my concern. Your client is the legal representative of Seth’s estate, which is why I have asked him to waive any such confidentiality agreements. Relatedly, I request that your client consent to unsealing the probate court records for his brother’s estate [Why would an executor ask the probate court to seal the entire record of a childless, unmarried 26-year-old decedent with minimal assets?]. At some point we will need to determine whether funds from Wikileaks were routed through that estate.

>>6142454

WHAT IS AARON RICH’S CASE REALLY ABOUT?

I’m not the first to wonder how the Rich family is paying $1,000-per-hour law firms to carry out their litigation campaign. According to my client, he agreed to pay for a private investigator in 2016 because the family said it could not afford to hire one. So where is all the money coming from now?

The first possibility is that the firms took these cases on a contingency basis. As a general rule, Republicans and conservatives don’t know how to play offense, either politically or legally, so maybe Boies Schiller thought it could bully and intimidate the defendants into a quick settlement. As it happens, one of the attorneys representing The Washington Times told me last week that the company is already negotiating a settlement with Aaron Rich (I encouraged the Times lawyer to stand firm at least until we get to the evidence).

>>6142485

Another source told me that the Times’s tentative settlement amount is $100,000. For a firm like Boies Schiller, that’s chump change and not worth the time, but it virtually guarantees that the Times will no longer cover the Seth Rich story, just like Fox News no longer covers the story. (It’s amazing what a frivolous lawsuit can accomplish).

That leaves one other possibility: the Rich family’s litigation campaign is being bankrolled by a third party or third parties. I believe that explanation is far more plausible, but it begs another question: why would someone want to fund these lawsuits?

Perhaps because the Democratic establishment is trying to muddy the waters. After all, major Democratic donors kept funding Christopher Steele’s “investigation” after it was publicly exposed and discredited. And the Democratic National Committee sued President Trump for purportedly colluding with Russia, even as the whole Russiagate story was unraveling and even though the DNC knew the lawsuit would permit Republicans to examine the DNC’s computer servers (i.e., the ones that the DNC would not allow even the FBI to examine).

>>6142525

'''What does that have to do with Seth Rich? Last week a retired CIA officer shared a very plausible theory with me. First, we can safely assume that American and British intelligence were monitoring Julian Assange and Wikileaks. If Seth Rich was sending DNC records to Wikileaks, the intelligence services probably would have figured that out.

So let’s say the Obama Administration learned that (1) leaked emails would soon be published, and (2) they would be very damaging to Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, and the DNC. What to do? Blame the Russians. If the Obama Administration was willing to frame Carter Page, then it would have no qualms about pointing fingers at Russia.

Remember, Seth Rich was a Bernie Sanders supporter. How bad would it look if a DNC employee aired his party’s dirty laundry because he was appalled by the way that the DNC rigged the primaries in favor of Hillary? No, it would be much more expedient for the Democrats to muddy the waters by declaring themselves the victims of international espionage, particularly if they could accuse their opponent of colluding with the foreign spies.

Finally, here’s another hypothetical to consider. Suppose I got a tip from London that Wikileaks could discretely transfer cash to Seth Rich by arranging a dummy sale on eBay, e.g., paying $50,000 to a sham merchant account for a non-existent product. Would that explain why Boies Schiller wants my private communications? Because they want to figure out who my sources are?'''

>>6142595

Does the recovered Awan laptop possibly have info on a large number of congress critters who were using this secret network to plot and scheme?

Is that why so many in the House/Senate retired before the 2018 midterms?

>>6142774

Just spit balling, but what if the Awan bros were not spying on congress, but actually hired by congress to maintain the secret email network used between Obama-Hillary-Compromised Members of Congress-The Supreme Court.

Why did they leave the laptop out in the open to be found. Maybe the Awan bros had an accident and a good Samariton left the device somewhere and called DC police to come pick it up.

>>6142805

I'm gonna go find that video of DWS where she morphs into an alligator while she's trying to intimidate that DC cop. I'll put this all together a post it later in another bread-going for a walk.

Somebody else do it for me if I'm never heard from again.