"Even though the Dossier included many harmful allegations about Plaintiffs and Alfa, and even though Buzzfeed expressly acknowledged the unverified and potentially unverifiable nature of the Dossier's allegations, Buzzfeed published the unredacted Dossier and the Article anyway - without first affording the Plaintiffs an opportunity to address the unverified allegations made against them and against Alfa in the Dossier," wrote Alan Lewis and John Walsh, lawyers from the law firm Carter Ledyard and Milburn, who are representing the bank owners. After its publication online, Trump denounced the dossier as "fake news" and called Buzzfeed "a pile of garbage."Īccording to a copy of the lawsuit posted by Politico, the lawyers for the Russian plaintiffs seize on an admission made by the report's authors at the time of the dossier's publication that aspects of the dossier were untrue or unproven. intelligence agencies briefed then President Barack Obama and Trump about the dossier. Read more: Thirteen things that don't add up in the Russia-Trump intelligence dossierĮarlier in January, U.S. The dossier, published online by Buzzfeed in January, was reportedly compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele, and contained claims of long-standing Russian attempts to influence Trump, and of collusion between Trump team officials and Russia. Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan of Alfa Bank filed the defamation lawsuit Friday in a Manhattan court, and are seeking unspecified damages from Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith, reporter Ken Bensinger and editors Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs. The owners of a Russian bank are suing Buzzfeed over the publication of a dossier that contained unverified claims that they were involved in an alleged Russian government campaign to influence the results of the November 8 U.S.
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