Juror for CNN defamation would assign a ‘up to $ 100 million’ to the Navy veteran before a settlement was reached

Jury advantage in the veteran of the US Navy Victory of defamation Zachary Young Over CNN, she said she was ready to assign a “up to $ 100 million” of criminal damage before she reached an undiscovered settlement.

Fox News Digital was in the courtroom last month, when the jury with six people in Bay district, Florida, ruled that Young received four million dollars lost earnings, a million dollars of personal damage like pain and suffering and said the criminal damage was justified CNN.

While the jury was preparing to determine the criminal compensation, Judge 14 of the Court Court William S. Henry announced that Young and CNN had reached a settlement for the amount awarded to the Navy. The jurors were sent home and never got the opportunity to declare how much they feel that CNN deserved to pay, but their figure would be significant.

“The message the jury wanted to send was not only CNN, but also to all the media that the general public was bored with false news and partial truths,” said Foreperson Katy Svetenko Diversity.

The jury reveals that CNN committed defamation against the Navy veterans, settlement has been achieved at criminal damage

“My personal opinion is that it could have been up to $ 100 million,” she continued. “He had to be tall enough to actually punish CNN and get the attention of other media.”

Young successfully claimed that CNN was smearing him by implying that he had illegally profited when he helps people flee to Afghanistan on the “black market” during Administration biden Military withdrawal from Land in 2021. Young believes that CNN “destroyed his reputation and job” branding him “illegal profit” that exploited “desperate Afghan” during November 2021, a report of Alex Marquardt, which was first broadcast on “The CNN, lead with Jake Tapper. ”

The amount of the settlement was not published. The announcement of the settlement was followed by the witness expert suggested that $ 150 million was a fair amount of CNN punishment.

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Svetenko also said that Marquardt “encountered an extremely arrogant” at the witness stop and criticized the CNN staff who were internal young young people in the reporting process.

Young’s legal team received damn internal messages CNN through Discovery repeatedly showing employees who express open hostility to the Navy Veterans. Among those who are delivered to the jury, including one who calls it “S-TBAG” and “A-Rupa”, one who says he has a “piercing face”.

“Maybe they would like to clean the internal email and journalists act as professionals, not high school students who call,” Svetenko said.

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After the settlement, CNN said he would need “useful lessons” from the decision.

“We remain proud of our journalists and 100% we are dedicated to a strong, fearless and honest reporting about CNN, although, of course, we will take what we can use from this case,” said CNN spokesman Fox News Digital.

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