House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday. alleging that one of the news agency’s reporters conspired with a political operative to derail Nunes’ oversight work into the Hillary Clinton campaign and Russian election interference.
See the filing, obtained by Fox News. It came a day after Nunes, R-Calif., revealed he would send eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department this week concerning FISA abuse and false statements to Congress and other matters.
In March, Nunes filed a similar $250 million lawsuit alleging defamation against Twitter and one of its users, Republican consultant Liz Mair.
In Monday’s complaint, Nunes again named Mair as a co-defendant, charging this time that she conspired with McClatchy reporter MacKenzie Mays to spread a variety of untruthful and misleading smears — including that Nunes “was involved with cocaine and underage prostitutes” — online and in print.
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Wow It’s on @DevinNunes goes after #FakeNews @McClatchyDC in a financial way
he is suing for 150 millionHe announced the lawsuit on #Hannity
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— Bob__Washington (@BOB__WASHINGTON) April 9, 2019
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