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Lawyers Want to Drop Rod Wheeler, Private Eye Who Says Fox Faked Quotes About Seth Rich
Lawyers Want to Drop Rod Wheeler, Private Eye Who Says Fox News Faked His Conspiratorial Quotes About Seth RichThe high-powered NYC law firm representing 24 plaintiffs against Fox News cited an “irrevocable breakdown of the client-attorney relationship” in seeking to drop Rod Wheeler.
ANDREW KIRELL
05.15.18 11:28 AM ET
The attorneys representing a private eye suing Fox News for allegedly fabricating conspiratorial quotes from him about the death of DNC staffer Seth Rich want to drop him as a client.
Wigdor LLP attorney Michael J. Willemin on Monday filed a motion in court to no longer represent Rod Wheeler, citing an “irrevocable breakdown of the attorney-client relationship.”
Wheeler first sued Fox News, its parent company 21st Century Fox, reporter Malia Zimmerman, and right-wing money man Ed Butowsky in August 2017, alleging the network “clearly fabricated” quotes from him “to lend support to the claim that Seth Rich, and not the Russians, was the source for the DNC emails released on WikiLeaks.”
He included in the original lawsuit transcripts from a conversation with reporter Zimmerman in which, following the article’s publication, she admitted that Wheeler never said “the part about the emails” or “about the connection to WikiLeaks.”
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