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BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-10/trump-lawyer-cohen-sues-buzzfeed-over-claims-in-russia-dossier
President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen is suing BuzzFeed News and Fusion GPS over a dossier that includes unverified allegations linking Trump to Russia, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday.
BuzzFeed News had published the controversial document a year ago, while Fusion GPS was the political research firm behind the dossier.
“It will be proven that I had no involvement in this Russian collusion conspiracy,” Cohen told Bloomberg. “My name was included only because of my proximity to the president.”
Cohen's lawsuit against BuzzFeed names editor in chief Ben Smith, editors Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs and reporter Ken Bensinger. All four were the bylines on the site’s story publishing the dossier.
Bloomberg noted that Cohen had informed reporters of the lawsuits but that the documents weren’t immediately available on online court dockets.
Cohen is mentioned in the dossier as having suspicious ties to Russian figures. Those allegations remain unverified.
“The dossier is, and continues to be, the subject of active investigations by Congress and intelligence agencies. It was presented to two successive presidents, and has been described in detail by news outlets around the world. Its interest to the public is obvious,” a BuzzFeed spokesman said in a statement to Bloomberg. “We look forward to defending the free press and our First Amendment rights in court.”
A lawyer for Fusion also told Bloomberg that he had not seen the lawsuit and hadn’t “received a letter from counsel on anything.”
Cohen has been a person of interest in the probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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