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Russian Bankers Sue BuzzFeed Over Unverified Trump Dossier

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Quite possibly by the end of the year we could have all major Media’s legal teams all in court fighting “fake news” reporting – PB/TK

Russian Bankers Sue BuzzFeed Over Unverified Trump Dossier – By Karen Matthews /  May 27 2017

NEW YORK (AP) — The owners of a Russian bank filed a lawsuit against the online publication BuzzFeed on Friday for publishing an uncorroborated dossier that alleged they were part of a Russian scheme to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan of Alfa Bank are seeking unspecified damages from BuzzFeed, editor-in-chief Ben Smith, reporter Ken Bensinger, and editors Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs.

The dossier published Jan. 10 included explosive claims that Russian officials had compiled compromising information about Republican Donald Trump. Trump called the report “fake news.”

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