Murdered DNC Staffer Seth Rich Was In Contact With Wikileaks Says Former DC Homicide Detective

[FunkyMike]

Submitted by ZeroPointNow

 

It's been close to a year since Seth Rich, the 27 year old computer expert who worked for the DNC, was murdered - shot twice in the back without anything of value taken from him.  Rich was found alive and in shock before he bled out - his death ruled nothing more than a botched robbery.

 

Many believe Rich was a victim retaliation for being the source who provided Wikileaks with a trove of DNC emails. Rumors were fueled by the odd circumstances surrounding his death, the sudden retirement of D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier five weeks after the murder, and an email John Podesta sent to Hillary's inner circle about making an example of a suspected leaker.

In the aftermath of the shooting, the Rich family hired a private investigator - Rich Wheeler, a former D.C. homicide detective who says evidence on Seth Rich's laptop suggests he was in contact with WikiLeaks prior to his death. Of note, Wheeler does not have possession of the laptop in question - however he said specific information will be released on Tuesday (5/16). 

 

Furthermore, Wheeler believes there has been a cover-up:

 

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"The police department nor the FBI have been forthcoming,” said Wheeler. “They haven't been cooperating at all. I believe that the answer to solving his death lies on that computer, which I believe is either at the police department or either at the FBI. I have been told both.”

 

When we asked Wheeler if his sources have told him there is information that links Rich to Wikileaks, he said, “Absolutely. Yeah. That's confirmed."

 

"I have a source inside the police department that has looked at me straight in the eye and said, ‘Rod, we were told to stand down on this case and I can’t share any information with you.’ -Fox5

So a former D.C. homicide detective, hired by the Rich family, claims he was told directly by a source within D.C. police that they were told to stand down.

 

It also casts doubt on the Russian hacking narrative...

 

Furthermore, Wheeler said there's more to come:
 

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I don’t think it comes from the chief’s office, but I do believe there is a correlation between the mayor's office and the DNC and that is the information that will come out [Tuesday].

 

Assange

 

Let's not forget Julian Assange heavily implied that Seth Rich was a source, and Wikileaks offered a $130,000 reward for information leading to the murderer:

Tying together with Dr. Pie's narrative

Right before the election Dr. Steve Pieczenik - ex deputy Sec. of State under Kissinger - told the world that the Wikileaks releases were part of a 'counter-coup' in which elements within the US Intelligence community decided Hillary Clinton and the globalist interests she represented couldn't be allowed to reach the Oval Office. In response, US citizens - not Russia, gave the DNC / Podesta / Hillary emails to Wikileaks for a timed release schedule during the 2016 Presidential race.

Spoiler

 

 

How Wikileaks changed the course of history

 

When the Wikileaks were released, there was no table of contents or any other guide. Instead, these were raw – DKIM verified emails, which would take nothing short of a massive crowd-sourced effort to process and decipher. Within days however, dots were rapidly being connected across various message boards – mostly 4chan and Reddit’s “The_Donald”. New discoveries reached massive audiences through digital megaphones provided by social media giants Twitter and Facebook, and eventually made it into the mainstream. 

 

The results of the online efforts were staggering, as the world witnessed revelations of “Pay for Play” by Clinton Foundation donors who funded ISIS, the DNC cheating against Bernie Sanders, MSM collusion with the Clinton campaign, Hillary’s dreams of open borders, “unaware and compliant” citizens, #SpiritCooking, Wet Works, and evidence of Aliens and Zero Point Energy – (either that or a completely insane Edgar Mitchell (15052)).

 

 

Back to detective Wheeler and Seth Rich

 

If Seth Rich was in fact one of Wikileaks' sources, it's far less of a stretch to conclude that he was murdered. Moreover, what's left of the Russian hacking narrative is now - in my opinion, moot. More to come Tuesday, when this could get even more interesting.

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-16/murdered-dnc-staffer-seth-rich-was-contact-wikileaks-says-former-dc-homicide-detecti

 

 

 

 

[FunkyMike]

Murdered DNC Staffer Seth Rich Shared 44,053 Democrat Emails With WikiLeaks: Report

 

 

For the past several months, Democrats have based their "Resist 45" movement on unsubstantiated assertions that the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian intelligence officials to undermine the 2016 Presidential Election thereby 'stealing' the White House from Hillary Clinton.  Day after day we've all suffered through one anonymously sourced, "shock" story after another from the New York Times and/or The Washington Post with new allegations of the 'wrongdoing'.

 

But, new evidence surfacing in the Seth Rich murder investigation may just quash the "Russian hacking" conspiracy theory.  According to a new report from Fox News, it was former DNC staffer Seth Rich who supplied 44,000 DNC emails to WikiLeaks and not some random Russian cyber terrorist, as we've all been led to believe. 

 

According to Fox News, though admittedly via yet another anonymous FBI source, Rich made contact with WikiLeaks through Gavin MacFadyen, an American investigative reporter and director of WikiLeaks who was living in London at the time.  According to Fox News sources, federal law enforcement investigators found 44,053 emails and 17,761 attachments sent between DNC leaders from January 2015 to May 2016 that Rich shared with WikiLeaks before he was gunned down on July 10, 2016. 

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The Democratic National Committee staffer who was gunned down on July 10 on a Washington, D.C., street just steps from his home had leaked thousands of internal emails to WikiLeaks, law enforcement sources told Fox News.

 

A federal investigator who reviewed an FBI forensic report detailing the contents of DNC staffer Seth Rich’s computer generated within 96 hours after his murder, said Rich made contact with WikiLeaks through Gavin MacFadyen, a now-deceased American investigative reporter, documentary filmmaker, and director of WikiLeaks who was living in London at the time.

 

“I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and Wikileaks,” the federal investigator told Fox News, confirming the MacFadyen connection. He said the emails are in possession of the FBI, while the stalled case is in the hands of the Washington Police Department.

 

 

Then, on July 22, just 12 days after Rich was killed, WikiLeaks published internal DNC emails that appeared to show top party officials conspiring to stop Bernie Sanders  from becoming the party’s presidential nominee. As we've noted before, the DNC's efforts to block Sanders resulted in Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigning as DNC chairperson.

 

....

 

Seems that not everyone within the FBI is on board with the "Russian hacking" narrative and are finally starting to come forward.

Finally, we find it 'shocking' that while the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc are all too eager to regurgitate each others anonymously sourced stories that are critical of Trump, not a single one of them had a single reference of this Fox News bombshell on their website at the time this article was published.

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-16/murdered-dnc-staffer-seth-rich-shared-44000-emails-wikileaks

[Mr. Gibs]

Finally, we find it 'shocking' that while the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc are all too eager to regurgitate each others anonymously sourced stories that are critical of Trump, not a single one of them had a single reference of this Fox News bombshell on their website at the time this article was published.

 

Maybe that's because the only source to this is the private investigator who alleges he has contacts who told him that?

 

Maybe it's because the same private investigator has said that the evidence will come out on Tuesday (today)? So as of right now there is no evidence until it, supposedly, gets released today. So how about we wait for him to release that evidence and then we can see if NYT, WaPo, CNN etc ignores it.

 

But hey that's too factual for trashhedge to understand.

[Dysphoria]

16 minutes ago, Mr. Gibs said:

 So how about we wait for him to release that evidence and then we can see if NYT, WaPo, CNN etc ignores it.

 

But hey that's too factual for trashhedge to understand.

Right... as "Golden Showers" news had all the evidence needed for CNN & WaPo to publish it...

 

Podesta is doing a fine job of publishing fake news at the Washington Post.

http://wapo.st/2kQa2XH?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.6b470c58a155

[Mr. Gibs]

Just now, Euphoria said:

Right... as "Golden Showers" news had all the evidence needed for CNN & WaPo to publish it...

 

Podesta is doing a fine job of publishing fake news at the Washington Post.

http://wapo.st/2kQa2XH?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.6b470c58a155

Once again I don't think you understand what a contributing columnist does or is.

 

Nothing new from you though. 

[Mr. Gibs]

Well even Fox News has moved the story away from front and center (like it was this morning).

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Family of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich blasts detective over report of WikiLeaks link

The family of the Democratic National Committee staffer who was gunned down on July 10 on a Washington, D.C., blasted reports that he was a source of thousands of emails leaked to WikiLeaks.

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But a spokesman for Rich's family on Tuesday said Wheeler was not authorized to speak for the family and called assertions Seth Rich sent emails to WikiLeaks "unsubstantiated." Brad Bauman said even if purported emails were to surface, it would not necessarily mean Rich had helped WikiLeaks.

"Even if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to prove any interactions as emails can be altered and we've seen that those interested in pushing conspiracies will stop at nothing to do so," Bauman said. "We are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth's murderers."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/16/slain-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks-investigator-says.html

 

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Family of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich criticizes right-wing media's role in igniting new conspiracy in murder case

The family of Seth Rich, a slain Democratic National Committee staffer, criticized media outlets and people who they suggested used a new report about Rich's contacts before his death as validation of their political ideology.

Rod Wheeler, the investigator, who reports have said is paid by a third party, suggested the Metropolitan Police Department attempted to cover up the nature of Rich's death on behalf of the DNC, which the police department denied on Tuesday.

http://www.businessinsider.com/seth-rich-family-right-wing-media-report-wikileaks-2017-5

 

But hey maybe the family was paid off too!!!!!!

 

Actually, since we're on the topic of garbage conspiracy theories, let's quote and edit @Euphoria post:

2 hours ago, Euphoria said:

Fake News by Washington Post, published an hour after new evidence was revealed on Seth Rich and his quite mysterious death.
I bet DNC and Podesta had their dirty fingers in this...
 

Fake news, published two to three hours after evidence was revealed on Trump and his leaking of info to the Russians.

I bet GOP and Bannon had their dirty fingers in this...

Corrected for reality.

Edited May 16, 2017 by Mr. Gibs

[Hum]

DUH -- I pointed out months ago that Seth was the leaker ...

[+Raze Subscriber²]

28 minutes ago, Hum said:

DUH -- I pointed out months ago that Seth was the leaker ...

And having known that, are you also the killer?     

 

Fess up, you're actually a "mechanic".      

[Dot Matrix]

WaPo and CNN don't cover conspiracy theories. 

[TPreston]

http://www.snopes.com/seth-rich-dnc-wikileaks-murder/

 

Although the reports claim Wheeler is a private investigator, a search for Wheeler’s name on the public lookup tool for licenses in Washington D.C. yields no results. When we asked MPD whether he was indeed a homicide detective with the department, they only confirmed he once worked there starting in 1990. He was dismissed by the department in 1995, but a spokesman did not explain why.

We are unable to locate contact information for Wheeler. Because he is a Fox contributor, we asked the cable network to put us in touch but got no response. We also reached out to him on his Twitter page but have not received a response.

NBC News identified the “third party” who hired Wheeler to investigate Rich’s murder as Ed Butowsky, a Dallas-based financial adviser, who is also a Fox News contributor.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

23 minutes ago, TPreston said:

http://www.snopes.com/seth-rich-dnc-wikileaks-murder/

 

Although the reports claim Wheeler is a private investigator, a search for Wheeler’s name on the public lookup tool for licenses in Washington D.C. yields no results. When we asked MPD whether he was indeed a homicide detective with the department, they only confirmed he once worked there starting in 1990. He was dismissed by the department in 1995, but a spokesman did not explain why.

We are unable to locate contact information for Wheeler. Because he is a Fox contributor, we asked the cable network to put us in touch but got no response. We also reached out to him on his Twitter page but have not received a response.

NBC News identified the “third party” who hired Wheeler to investigate Rich’s murder as Ed Butowsky, a Dallas-based financial adviser, who is also a Fox News contributor.

Wonder if that is the same Ed Butowsky that writes articles at Breitbart.

 

http://www.breitbart.com/author/ebutowsky/

 

Edit:  Yep ... same one.

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A spokesman for the family of a young Democratic National Committee staffer who was murdered last year said Tuesday that a conservative businessman had paid for a private investigation into the unsolved slaying that has ignited right-wing conspiracy theories. The businessman denies any involvement.

 

The Dallas-based financial adviser, Ed Butowsky, a Fox News regular who has written articles for Breitbart News, contacted the parents of Seth Rich and urged them to hire a private investigator to look into the death of their 27-year-old son, who was shot and killed last July in what police say was a robbery gone wrong. Butowsky offered to cover the fees and connect them with an investigator, according to Brad Bauman, a spokesman for the family.

 

The Rich family hired the detective who had been recommended, Rod Wheeler, a former D.C. homicide detective who is also a Fox News contributor and who last month tweeted a photo of himself at the White House captioned, "Doing my part to Make America Great Again!!"

 

/snip

 

NBC News

 

Speaking of Fox News (and Infowars of course).... their coverage of this .... 

 

While CNN, NBC, WaPo, etc., were reporting possible detrimental actions by Trump... Fox had this conspiracy story as their headline.

[Mr. Gibs]

So it's now 8:12pm EDT (5:12pm PDT for those that find timezones a challenging and complex calculation) and the evidence that was supposedly going to be released today is nowhere to be found.

 

Therefore, we can safely conclude:

 

1. The story was BS.

 

2. The cult followers fell for fake news again, twice in one day I might add.

 

3. TrashHedge / ZeroFactsHedge continues to live up to their name. Must be all that """critical""" thinking they do over there.

 

4. Since this topic has been moved to it's rightful place in the conspiracy theories forum, it's time to bring up @Euphoria's massively disproven conspiracy theory with the needed corrections (again):

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Fake news, published two to three hours after evidence was revealed on Trump and his leaking of info to the Russians.

I bet GOP and Bannon had their dirty fingers in this...

Bravo guys, bravo. Keep up the BS.

[TPreston]

It took only hours for one of the biggest stories in conservative media this week, which some outlets had chosen to focus on over news that President Trump disclosed classified information to senior Russian officials, to fall apart.

On Monday night, Rod Wheeler, a private investigator and Fox News contributor, put things in motion during an interview with WTTG-TV, a Fox affiliate in Washington.

Wheeler, who was under contract with the family of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer who was fatally shot in July, told WTTG-TV evidence existed that proved Rich had been in contact with Wikileaks before his death.

 

For months, right-wing media outlets have floated unproven theories that Rich was the person who provided Wikileaks thousands of internal DNC emails, and that his death might have been connected with the supposed leak. No real evidence has been provided to support such claims and Washington's Metropolitan Police Department, which continues to investigate the murder, says there is evidence to suggest he may have been the victim of a botched robbery.

Nevertheless, a handful of right-wing media outlets have latched on to the theory -- and Wheeler's remarks on Monday allowed the narrative to once again ricochet throughout the conservative media universe.

 

"NOT RUSSIA, BUT AN INSIDE JOB?" asked Breitbart, the far-right website previously led by White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, which said that "if proven, the report has the potential to be one of the biggest cover-ups in American political history, dispelling the widespread claim that the Russians were behind hacks on the DNC."

"DEAD DNC STAFFER 'HAD CONTACT' WITH WIKILEAKS," declared the headline of the Drudge Report, the highly-trafficked conservative news destination.

Fox News on Tuesday morning joined in the chorus, publishing a lead story on its website about the "DC MURDER MYSTERY." The story said Wheeler had made the claim Wikileaks had been in contact with Rich. It added that a federal investigator, who it said had spoken on the condition of anonymity, corroborated it.

 

But Tuesday afternoon, Wheeler told CNN he had no evidence to suggest Rich had contacted Wikileaks before his death.

Wheeler instead said he only learned about the possible existence of such evidence through the reporter he spoke to for the FoxNews.com story. He explained that the comments he made to WTTG-TV were intended to simply preview Fox News' Tuesday story. The WTTG-TV news director did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

"I only got that [information] from the reporter at Fox News," Wheeler told CNN.

Asked about a quote attributed to him in the Fox News story in which he said his "investigation up to this point shows there was some degree of email exchange between Seth Rich and Wikileaks," Wheeler said he was referring to information that had already been reported in the media.

A Fox News spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.

Earlier Tuesday, Brad Bauman, a spokesman for the Rich family, released a statement in which he said the family had "seen no evidence" to suggest Seth Rich had been in contact with Wikileaks.

Bauman told CNN the outlets that had run with the story "have shown over and over again that they are willing to lie and manipulate the facts" to further "their own political end."

"I think it's important for everyone at Fox News to be careful with this information and how this story breaks because using the legacy of a murder victim in such an overtly political way is morally reprehensible," he said.

 

Bauman also said the Rich family was reviewing possible legal action against Wheeler for speaking about the case publicly. A contract between Wheeler and the Rich family prohibited from speaking to the media about his ongoing investigation, Bauman said.

"It is possible that this private investigator is in breach of a non disclosure contract," Bauman told CNN, adding that the private investigator's public comments have "seriously impeded the ability of the Metropolitan Police Department to investigate."

Asked whether he was in breach of a contract, Wheeler said, "I don't know, it's hard to say."

"I think that's something I will have to work out with [the family]," he added.

Wheeler was put in touch with the Rich family through Dallas businessman Ed Butowsky, who told CNN he had offered to pay any bills associated with the investigation.

"You have a family who can't afford a PI. Their son was killed. So I offered to help out," Butowsky said.

Butowsky, a financial adviser, has provided commentary to Fox News on a number of occasions. He has also written columns for Breitbart, and was critical of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

Speaking with NBC News, Butowsky had denied his involvement with Wheeler and the Rich family. Asked why, he told CNN, "I didn't want to talk to NBC."

Butowsky also said that, thus far, he hasn't "paid any money to anybody." He said Wheeler was investigating the Rich murder at no cost.

 

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/16/media/seth-rich-family-response-claims-of-wikileaks-contact/index.html

 

Shame on fox news for covering this trash

[+virtorio MVC]

Right wingers need to workshop their conspiracy theories a little more before going public. 

[+Mirumir Subscriber¹]

 

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We're currently waiting for Wapo to confirm that Trump actually insisted the Russians send this tweet.

 

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-19/russian-embassy-implicates-hillary-tweet-asking-who-killed-seth-rich

 

[mudslag]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/family-of-murdered-dnc-staffer-tells-investigator-to-stop?utm_term=.jgJKEgvXJ5#.vrb4bYgyeV

[hagjohn]

Wheeler admits he has no evidence that what he is saying is true but he is saying it anyway...  At this point, it is fake news.

[Jim K Global Moderator]

8 hours ago, Mirumir said:

 

 

hehe...the Russian Embassy is peddling conspiracy theories now?  Funny.  

 

The media has reported his death, Fox News even promoted this latest debunked conspiracy theory for which the family of Seth Rich had to send Fox News a "cease and desist" letter.

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The family of slain Democratic staffer Seth Rich is threatening legal action against a private investigator after his "outrageous behavior" has given fuel to right-wing conspiracy theories about the unsolved murder of their son.

 

An attorney representing the family of Rich, who was 27 when he was killed last July, sent a cease and desist letter Friday to Rod Wheeler, a Fox News contributor and former Washington, D.C., homicide detective who was employed by the family and earlier this week told a Fox affiliate that he believed police were covering up details about the crime.

 

"Your statements and actions have caused, and continue to cause, the Family severe mental anguish and emotional distress. Your behavior appears to have been deliberate, intentional, outrageous, and in patent disregard of the Agreement and the obvious damage and suffering it would cause the Family," wrote Joseph Ingrisano of the law firm Katuk Rock, according to a copy of the letter shared exclusively with NBC News.

 

"Your improper and unauthorized statements, many of which are false and have no basis in fact, have also injured the memory and reputation of Seth Rich and have defamed and injured the reputation and standing of the members of the Family," Ingrisano continued.

 

The letter demands Wheeler "immediately and permanently" cease and desist from making any comments about Seth Rich or his death and suggests he could face further legal action either way.

 

//snip

 

More at NBC News

 

...wonder if anyone realizes that a third of the murders in the US go unsolved.  Hmmmm.  

[FunkyMike]

 

 

 

 

 

[Jim K Global Moderator]

... And what will Kim accomplish... Or anyone else outside of law enforcement?

[TPreston]

2 hours ago, FunkyMike said:

 

 

 

 

 

I suggest contacting the police rather than the twatter app also the fbi regarding the wikileaks claim.

[wakjak]

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FBI is not involved in Seth Rich case despite 'conspiracy theories,' officials say

 

FBI and other law enforcement officials are privately knocking down a conspiracy theory today, fueled by conservative commentators on Fox News, that seeks to divert attention from Russia’s involvement in the hacking of the Democratic National Committee last year by suggesting a DNC staffer was murdered to cover up his involvement in passing the information to WikiLeaks.

According to officials with knowledge of the matter, the FBI is not investigating the unsolved murder of Seth Rich last year in what agents have determined was “a possible attempted robbery” gone wrong. Asked about the possible connection between Rich and WikiLeaks, one official told ABC News that “the only place I've seen that is through the conspiracy theories online."

The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., continues to investigate his death as a homicide.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/fbi-involved-seth-rich-case-officials/story?id=47565705

[FunkyMike]

 

 

 

 

[FunkyMike]

Kim Dotcom Disappoints: Offers Full Seth Rich Testimony But Only To Special Counsel Mueller

 

 

As promised over the weekend, Kim Dotcom has delivered his official 'statement' on the Seth Rich murder.  Unfortunately, it's a bit light on the details and more of a teaser along with a promise to disclose full details of his relationship with Seth Rich to Special Counsel Mueller in return for safe passage to and from the United States.

 

Here is the full statement as posted to Kim Dotcom's website:

 

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I know that Seth Rich was involved in the DNC leak.

 

I know this because in late 2014 a person contacted me about helping me to start a branch of the Internet Party in the United States. He called himself Panda. I now know that Panda was Seth Rich.

 

Panda advised me that he was working on voter analytics tools and other technologies that the Internet Party may find helpful.

 

I communicated with Panda on a number of topics including corruption and the influence of corporate money in politics.

 

“He wanted to change that from the inside.”

 

I was referring to what I knew when I did an interview with Bloomberg in New Zealand in May 2015. In that interview I hinted that Julian Assange and Wikileaks would release information about Hillary Clinton in the upcoming election.

 

The Rich family has reached out to me to ask that I be sensitive to their loss in my public comments. That request is entirely reasonable.

 

I have consulted with my lawyers. I accept that my full statement should be provided to the authorities and I am prepared to do that so that there can be a full investigation. My lawyers will speak with the authorities regarding the proper process.

 

If my evidence is required to be given in the United States I would be prepared to do so if appropriate arrangements are made. I would need a guarantee from Special Counsel Mueller, on behalf of the United States, of safe passage from New Zealand to the United States and back. In the coming days we will be communicating with the appropriate authorities to make the necessary arrangements. In the meantime, I will make no further comment.

Meanwhile, early reaction from the Twittersphere is supreme disappointment:

 

 

So what say you, legitimate concern regarding public disclosure of details surrounding a controversial murder investigation or blatant self-aggrandizement and nothing more?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-23/kim-dotcom

[Jim K Global Moderator]

Fox News has retracted the story conspiracy.

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Statement on coverage of Seth Rich murder investigation

 

On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich. The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed.

 

We will continue to investigate this story and will provide updates as warranted.  

Fox News

 

...and once again ... who cares what Kim ... or Wikileaks says?  Unless they've found some evidence ... they are just fueling this conspiracy theory.  If they have found evidence ... they need to hand it over to the MPD,  FBI ... or whoever is investigating Rich's murder.  That is the only way to help...not this other crap.

 

...and this clown ...

 

 

oh...but wait ... 

 

 

...even after the family basically said "just stop."  He needs to get the Bill O'Reilly treatment.