![]() ![]() Gubarev owns Webzilla, a Florida-based web company. He still faces a libel claim in London brought by a Russian technology businessman, Aleksej Gubarev, who appears in the dossier. Steele’s legal battles are not yet over, but Monday’s ruling is a significant victory. He wrote: “The Steele dossier generated so much interest and attention in the US precisely because its contents relate to active public debates here.” Of the dossier, the judge said it “plainly concerns” an issue of public interest – whether the Kremlin interfered in the 2016 US presidential election. ![]() The judge said this was “ironic” given the fact the billionaires had Russian and Israeli citizenships, and had gone to a US court seeking redress for their grievances. The oligarchs had argued Steele did not enjoy first-amendment protections because he was British rather than American. He argued that the Russians were trying to shut down a legitimate subject for public debate.Įpstein’s judgment on Monday was, in places, withering. In March, Steele responded with a motion filed under “anti-Slapp” legislation. More than a year later, the oligarchs sued Steele in Washington DC. In January 2017, the website Buzzfeed published the dossier, igniting a political firestorm. ![]() She continued: “We will continue to defend against baseless attacks on Chris and hope that the result of this case will be a message to those who seek to intimidate Chris and his company.” Steele’s attorney Christy Hull Eikhoff said the judgement was “thorough, well-reasoned and firmly supported in the law”. It said it “strongly disagreed” with the court’s decision on a number of points and would “almost certainly appeal”. It further suggested that Putin was able to “exploit” as a lever the oligarchs’ “lack of investment in Russia”, even though he personally was not “bothered” by it.Īlfa denies these claims. The memo also claimed that in the 1990s an Alfa intermediary delivered “illicit cash” to Putin when he was deputy mayor of Saint Petersburg. It alleged that Fridman and Aven gave the Russia president “informal advice” on foreign policy, especially about the US because Putin tended to “distrust” information given to him by his officials. One confidential memo reported claims that the Alfa Group businessmen had a close relationship with Vladimir Putin. Fusion investigated the then presidential candidate Trump’s alleged links with Moscow. The Russian lawsuit concerned one of 17 memos sent by Steele between June and October 2016 to Fusion GPS, an intelligence company based in Washington DC. It was Fusion GPS that hired Steele to write the phony & discredited Dossier, paid for by Crooked Hillary & the DNC.- Donald J. The big story that the Fake News Media refuses to report is lowlife Christopher Steele’s many meetings with Deputy A.G. ![]()
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