President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, has filed a pair of lawsuits over an explosive dossier with unverified allegations against the president revealed nearly a year ago.
Cohen tweeted out news of legal action against BuzzFeed News, which published the full document.
“Enough is enough of the #fake #Russian Dossier,” Cohen tweeted.
The legal action names three of BuzzFeed News’ editors and a reporter, Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs first reported.
ABC News reported that Cohen also filed a defamation suit in federal court against the private investigative firm Fusion GPS.
According to the federal complaint, Fusion GPS, co-founded by former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson, “recklessly placed [the dossier] beyond their control and allowed it to fall into the hands of media devoted to breaking news on the hottest subject of the day: the Trump candidacy,” ABC News reported.
In the New York state complaint, which names BuzzFeed’s top editor Ben Smith as well as Ken Bensinger, Miriam Elder and Mark Schoofs, Cohen claims “even though Defendant Buzzfeed expressly acknowledged the unverified (and potentially unverifiable) nature of the Dossier's allegations, Defendant BuzzFeed published the un-redacted Dossier and the Article anyway — without attempting to determine the veracity of these reports with Plaintiff himself,” ABC News reported.
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