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		</div><p>An investigator claims Fox News fabricated quotes implicating a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer in the WikiLeaks scandal and co-ordinated with the Trump administration as it worked on the story.<br />
The investigator, Rod Wheeler, has sued Fox for defamation.</p>
<p>His lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in New York, lays out an explosive tale of Trump allies conspiring to push a false story to take the pressure of the Russian collusion investigation off the president, and a news organisation willing to show the president its story before it was published.</p>
<p>Fox called the accusation that reporter Malia Zimmerman&#8217;s story was published to detract from the Russian investigation &#8220;completely erroneous&#8221;. Jay Wallace, Fox&#8217;s news president, said the story is still being investigated and that Fox has no evidence that Mr Wheeler was misquoted.</p>
<p>Mr Wheeler, a Fox contributor who looked into Seth Rich&#8217;s July 2016 murder for the family, was brought into the case by Ed Butowsky, a Texas man and Trump supporter who appeared frequently on Fox, the lawsuit said.<br />
Mr Butowsky was intent on establishing a link between Mr Rich, who was killed in July 2016 in what Washington police believe was a botched robbery, and the WikiLeaks scandal, the lawsuit says.</p>
<p>Mr Wheeler was quoted in the May 16 story on Fox&#8217;s website saying there had been contact between Mr Rich and WikiLeaks, whose dump of DNC emails proved a major detriment to Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign.mHe also said he was quoted falsely saying that someone &#8211; possibly Democrats or Clinton campaign officials &#8211; was blocking an investigation into Mr Rich&#8217;s murder.</p>
<p>Two days before the Fox article was published, Mr Butowsky told Mr Wheeler in a phone conversation that Mr Trump had read the article and wanted it published immediately, the lawsuit said.<br />
Mr Butowsky had no immediate comment. Mr Wheeler also claimed that he was told that his false comments were put in the story because Mr Trump wanted it that way.</p>
<p>Mr Wheeler also said that he and Mr Butowsky had met with former White House press secretary Sean Spicer and showed Mr Spicer notes on Mr Wheeler&#8217;s investigation. Mr Spicer asked to be kept informed of the probe, the lawsuit said. Fox removed the story from its website a week after it was published, saying that &#8220;it was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all of our reporting&#8221;.</p>
<p>That forced Fox News&#8217; most high-profile host, Sean Hannity, to back away from aggressively pushing the story on the air. Mr Wheeler, who is black and has been a Fox contributor since 2005, is also suing Fox for racial discrimination. He said similar law enforcement experts who are white were given higher pay and more opportunities.</p>
<p>Mr Wallace denied the accusations.</p>
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