'Explosive e-mail' reveals OAN 'may have engaged in criminal activities' with Smartmatic data

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/explosive-e-mail-reveals-oan-may-have-
engaged-in-criminal-activities-with-smartmatic-data/ar-BB1hrokP

Fox News, Newsmax and One America News (OAN) have all faced civil
defamation lawsuits from Dominion Voting Systems after promoting the false
claim that Dominion's voting equipment was used to help now-President Joe
Biden steal the 2020 election from then-President Donald Trump. And Fox
News, after agreeing to a $787.5 million settlement with Dominion in 2023,
is still up against a $2.7 billion civil defamation lawsuit from Dominion
competitor Smartmatic.

"Civil" is the operative word in those lawsuits, none of which involve
criminal charges.

But according to CNN's Marshall Cohen, lawyers for Smartmatic are alleging
that OAN "may have engaged in criminal activities" following the 2020
election.

"In the wake of the 2020 election," Cohen explains, "the president of the
far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive e-mail to
former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, with a spreadsheet claiming to
contain passwords of employees from the voting technology company
Smartmatic, according to court filings. The existence of the spreadsheet
was recently disclosed by Smartmatic, which is suing OAN for defamation."

Cohen continues, "CNN pieced together who was involved in the e-mail
exchanges by examining court records from three separate cases stemming
from the 2020 election. Lawyers from Smartmatic told a federal judge that
the e-mail, and the attached spreadsheet, suggest OAN executives 'may have
engaged in criminal activities' because they 'appear to have violated
state and federal laws regarding data privacy."

According to Cohen, court records "don't say how OAN obtained the
spreadsheet, or whether the supposed Smartmatic passwords were authentic."

Cohen reports, "Nobody from OAN has been charged with any crimes.…
According to court filings, the supposed passwords were shared around the
same time that Powell, her associates and other Trump supporters were
trying to improperly access voting systems across the country, to prove
their false claims of voter fraud. The January 8, 2021, e-mail exchange
between OAN President Charles Herring and Powell has recently emerged as a
flashpoint in Smartmatic's defamation lawsuit against the pro-Trump
network."


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