A Utah nonprofit and a political consulting firm sued Canadian businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary and Fox News Media over since-corrected claims O’Leary made that they were working for the Chinese Communist Party in opposing a data center he wants to build in Utah.
Alliance for a Better Utah, its founder Joshua Kanter, Elevate Strategies and one of its founders Gabi Finlayson said in a complaint filed Wednesday in Utah federal court that, without evidence whatsoever, O’Leary said in a May 11 interview on Fox Business that they were proxies for the Chinese government.
“O’Leary proceeded to engage in a weekslong smear campaign against plaintiffs,” they write in the lawsuit. “Across at least ten separate media appearances broadcast to millions of viewers and shared with millions more online, O’Leary repeated his malicious, false claims that plaintiffs were agents of China and engaging in criminal conduct.”
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