Fox News Settles Suit With Family of Murdered DNC Staffer Seth Rich

Posted Tuesday, November 24, 2020 5:34 pm

Gene Maddaus | Variety

Fox News has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of Seth Rich, the slain Democratic National Committee staffer who became the center of right-wing conspiracies about hacked emails.

Joel and Mary Rich filed the suit over a May 2017 story that claimed their son had leaked thousands of DNC emails to Wikileaks before his death.

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