- Christopher Harborne has filed a lawsuit against the WSJ.
- He accuses the magazine of defamation for referring to himself in an article about Tether and Bitfinex dated March 2023.
- The magazine edited the article, removing the mention of the entrepreneur and his company.
AML Global brokerage CEO Christopher Harborne has filed a lawsuit against the WSJ for defamation. He claims that he was wrongly accused of money laundering and terrorist financing in the magazine’s article about Tether and Bitfinex from 2023.
The article in question. At the end of February 2024, the article was edited to remove all mention of Harborne and his company, as indicated in the footnote at the bottom.
We told about the article itself and Tether’s reaction to it in a separate post.
The essence of the entrepreneur’s claims is that WSJ journalists deliberately falsely accused AML Global of “shadow brokering”. The deleted snippet claimed that Harborne and his company provided a link between Tether and Bitfinex and the banking sector, the lawsuit says.
In a comment to CoinDesk, a WSJ spokesperson said the following:
“More than nine months after publication, Harborne’s attorney contacted us to challenge five paragraphs that mentioned his client. We verified the information, removed it and left a footnote in accordance with editorial policy. Their lawsuit is full of inaccuracies and misrepresentations.”
In the lawsuit, Harborne admitted that he is closely associated with Bitfinex. He is a minority shareholder but has never held a management or executive position.
