Politics
Haiti: Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe is vindicated in the dismissal of a lawsuit against online paper
In fact the sale of Haitel never occurred, instead given the bankruptcy of the company, it will be placed in auction in the coming months.
Prime Minister Lamothe long claimed that neither he nor his former partner had brought the lawsuit against the Haiti Observateur to obtain monetary compensation. Lamothe stated he felt completely vindicated by the dismissal, because “by agreeing to publish an affidavit that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that we were truthful from the beginning and that Mr. Joseph was simply not telling the truth, the objective of the lawsuit has been more than met.”
Charles’s declaration supports the US District Court’s early finding in February of 2013 that Joseph had acted with “malice and with a reckless disregard for the truth.”
Salim Succar, one of the Prime Minister’s Haitian lawyers noted that the “truth had prevailed” and that “the dismissal of the case should serve as a good lesson to all journalists to check their facts and uphold ethical standards before publishing malicious statements.”
Source: Perlman, Bajandas, Yevoli & Albright, P.L.
