A jury in Florida on Friday discovered that CNN defamed a Navy veteran with a report on his enterprise that aired in 2021 and awarded him $5 million damages.
The plaintiff, Zachary Younger, sued the community saying it harmed his enterprise by together with him in a 2021 phase about contractors who the report urged had been profiteering off Afghan refugees attempting to flee the nation after the Biden administration pulled U.S. forces in another country.
The decision got here after greater than eight hours of deliberation at a courthouse in Bay County, Fla., the place jurors throughout a multiday trial had been proven a string of proof together with depositions from high CNN anchor Jake Tapper and messages between reporter Alex Marquardt and Younger earlier than the phase ran.
As a part of the decision, the jury awarded Younger $4 million in misplaced enterprise damages and $1 million in private damages.
The jury can be set to determine Friday afternoon on putative damages CNN should pay Younger.
The outlet didn’t present remark.
