BBC APOLOGIZES, WILL PAY DAMAGES TO UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT OVER FAKE MICHAEL COHEN STORY
The BBC apologized to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and will pay him damages over a false report that he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to meet with President Donald Trump.
The inaccurate article was published in May 2018 and claimed that Poroshenko paid $400,000 to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in order to extend a brief 2017 meeting with the U.S. president. The story has since been scrubbed from the
BBC website.
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According to an
archive of BBC.com, the article was the lead story on the website. At the time, Poroshenko’s administration called the story a “blatant lie, slander and fake.”
“We apologize to Mr. Poroshenko for any distress caused and have agreed to pay him damages, legal costs and have participated in a joint statement in open court,” BBC
said on its website Thursday. The apology continues:
BBC Apologizes, Will Pay Damages To Ukrainian President Over Fake Michael Cohen Story