CNN is seeking to pause the Irish proceedings and have the matter tried in the United States. The defamation suit relates to a story alleging the Trump White House influenced the awarding of a lease of mid-band spectrum to “Rivada”.
The businessman is suing the US network over a news story in October 2020 alleging the US Department of Defence came under pressure from the Trump White House to award a lease of mid-band spectrum to Rivada.
News network CNN has so far failed to prove the United States is a more appropriate forum to hear the businessman's defamation claim, the High Court found.
Not long ago, the Galway-born entrepreneur and former Libertas founder was making billion dollar 5G pitches to the US government. So why did his company Rivada Networks fail to discharge a $3.1 million debt?
Declan Ganley claims CNN's allegedly defamatory story about pressure being applied in the awarding of a Pentagon 5G contract worth billions was published in pursuit of the commercial and political agenda of the media group's owners and Rivada rival AT&T.
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