U.S. Navy Veteran Zachary Youngincourt will soon have to deal with CNN after the network made bombshell allegations against the soldier.
According to Knewz.com, Young is making every effort to discredit CNN after claiming that the network “destroyed his reputation” in a 2021 episode on The Lead with Jake Tapper.
According to a statement from a source, Zachary’s attorneys deposed CNN’s corporate representative on Friday regarding punitive damages. On Monday, November 25, there is a pre-trial conference. The trial’s final hearing is that one. After three years of litigation, it is finally over. It’s all down to the trial now.
Another source revealed: “Every challenge has been repelled by Zachary Young and his pitbull attorneys. They’re determined to bring down CNN.
According to commenter Alex Marquardt, “Afghanstrying to get out of the country face a black marketfull of promises, demands of exorbitant fees, and no guarantee of safety or success,” Tapper said viewers during the CNN episode.
Young was then charged with war profiteering and human trafficking.
Then, in August 2024, CNN claims that Young “was engaged in criminal activity when he was working to help rescue women and children from Afghanistan following U.S. withdrawal and the Taliban sweeping back into power.” CNN reportedly used Taliban Sharia law to support their comments in the episode.
“Discovery has indicated that those activities he orchestrated and funded, which involved moving women out of Afghanistan, almost certainly were illegal under Taliban rule,” CNN lawyer Deana Shullman said at the time.
Young launched a lawsuit after the accusations, claiming that the program falsely depicted him as a war crime profiteer by implying that he collected “exorbitant fees” on the “black market” while helping desperate Afghans escape the country.
According to earlier court documents, Young saved the lives of at least 20 women while charging $14,500 per woman for their evacuation on behalf of his clients, which were solely companies.
CNN, however, claimed that their coverage on Young was not defamatory since it focused on how profiteers used the disarray in Afghanistan to charge prices that Afghans could not pay.
Young’s legal team also accused the network of hiding important financial papers in accordance with net worth discovery during the back and forth.
Vel Freedman, Young’s lead attorney, contended that although CNN had provided thousands of pages of documentation, cash flow reports were not included.
In the end, a Delaware judge ordered CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, to carry out a thorough financial analysis before providing Young and his team with pertinent data.
A court document claims that during a sworn deposition, Tapper declined to respond to inquiries regarding the financial aspects of his show, including his pay. Young’s lawyers asked the Florida 14th Circuit Court to intervene and compel him to respond to the inquiries.
The date of Young and CNN’s defamation trial is set for January 6, 2025.
The longstanding network could lose $1 billion as a result of the case.
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