Internet gadfly Kim Dotcom admits FBI document... document on Seth Rich is bogus b he won t delete it TRAVIS GETTYS 30 MAY 2017 AT 08:47 ET

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1 Internet gad y Kim Dotcom admits document on Seth Rich is bogus b he won t delete it TRAVIS GETTYS 30 MAY 2017 AT 08:47 ET 1 of 10 05/31/ :32 PM

2 Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom (Marty Melville/Agence France-Presse) DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! Like Mira Kwak and 1M others like this. A n internet entrepreneur admits he posted a fake FBI le online to promote conspiracy theories about a slain Democratic National Committee staffer but he s not going to delete it. Kim Dotcom has played a central role in reviving claims that DNC staffer Seth Ric was murdered after revealing or threatening to disclose damaging information about Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign. Dotcom told Fox News host Sean Hannity that he had evidence that Rich had sen documents to WikiLeaks, which conservatives then cited to dismiss claims about Russian election interference but the Megaupload website founder now admits 2 of 10 05/31/ :32 PM

3 After doing some forensic analysis of the document I came to believe it is not authentic. And I have retweeted Wikileaks which came to the same conclusion, Dotcom told Gizmodo. But that doesn t mean he s going to delete it. There is no need to delete those tweets because I have been very cautious and warned within an hour of the release of that document that it could be a fake, he said. Rich was shot to death July 10 in what Washington, D.C., police believe was an attempted robbery, but conspiracy theorists have speculated that he was killed fo leaking s about the DNC. Dotcom, who is wanted by U.S. authorities for criminal copyright infringement, to Gizmodo that he had hoped to pressure the FBI into commenting on the documen by sharing it on Twitter. The fake document was rst published on the Borderland Alternative Media webs and then spread on social media and conspiracy clearinghouse websites, and eve Alex Jones Prison Planet has agreed to delete it after con rming it s not legitimat Rich s family accused Dotcom of attempting to hack into the slain DNC staffer s account, presumably to plant evidence to support his claims, but the intern entrepreneur threatened to sue them for defamation. Dotcom refuses to back off his claim that Rich was the WikiLeaks source, althoug he declined to share his evidence with Gizmodo. 3 of 10 05/31/ :32 PM

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