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Jeff Bezos unveiled emails Thursday allegedly sent by an executive and an in-house lawyer for the National Enquirer’s publisher, claiming the messages show “blackmail and extortion” in retaliation for the Amazon founder’s probe of how the tabloid obtained explicit photos and text messages he had sent to a romantic partner… Read this piece in its entirety…
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Sumner Redstone and his family have signed off on a legal ceasefire with the aging media mogul’s one-time companion, Manuela Herzer, with both sides promising to drop all ongoing litigation and Herzer promising to pay back $3.25 million in gifts, according to the settlement agreement… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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CBS Corp. announced Monday that former CEO Leslie Moonves won’t get a severance payment reportedly worth $120 million, after an investigation by Covington & Burling LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP found the former executive violated company policies and didn’t cooperate with the probe into sexual harassment at the media giant… Read this piece in…
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The Northern Express, a weekly magazine based in Traverse City, Michigan, covered my lawsuits against the Michigan State Police and Antrim County: LaSusa and his father, Lawrence LaSusa, a Traverse City attorney … [have] sued Antrim County and the state police in an effort to get the courts to agree with their interpretation of Michigan’s…
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As 2017 comes to a close, InSight Crime takes a look back at some of our favorite interactions with our audience this year. Some are genuinely nice thank you notes or even praise. Others are profanity-laced tirades about perceived biases or shortcomings in our coverage. And some are just plain weird… Read this piece in its…
