Hit jobs case: PR consultant apologises and promises cash to settle defamation case that came from Dirty Politics
3 Mar, 2021 07:10 AM
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PR consultant Carrick Graham in his Parnell office. Photo / Doug Sherring
An apology and cash payment has been made by a public relations consultant to three public health experts who were victims of defamatory online attacks alleged to have been funded by money from Big Sugar and Big Tobacco.
The apology from Carrick Graham came in the opening hours of a defamation case at the High Court in Auckland in which evidence was to be produced showing he had taken money from clients in alcohol and food industries and paid former Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater to attack public health researchers.
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An employee uses a laptop computer during a demonstration of the shared PC with face recognition technology, eliminating the need to input a password at the NEC Corporation headquarters on July 13, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. NEC Corporation has transformed its Tokyo headquarters skyscraper into a smart building to showcase its new normal technologies and services to facilitate worker safety and organizational efficiency for the post COVID-19 world.
Karachi
March 3, 2021
The Sindh High Court directed the chief secretary on Tuesday to expedite the process for approval of a summary with regard to the payment of the Karachi Development Authority’s retired employees’ outstanding pension dues.
The direction came during the hearing of petitions pertaining to the payment of outstanding dues of more than 1,000 retired employees of the authority. The court, at a previous hearing, had directed the Sindh government to consider a KDA proposal for the grant of a Rs844.159 million loan for clearing the outstanding dues of its retired employees.
The additional advocate general informed a division bench headed by Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar that a summary for the grant of a loan for the payment of pensionary dues to the employees of the KDA had been forwarded to the chief minister.
Kentucky State Police announced March 2 that they had arrested two Pike County men on child sexual exploitation charges.
KSP announced the arrest of Bill Daniel Combs, 36, and Stephen D. Ramey, 29, on charges related to child sexual abuse material resulting from separate investigations.
KSP said Combs was arrested as the result of an undercover Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigation. The KSP Electronic Crime Branch began the investigation after discovering the suspect communicating with a juvenile online, the statement said.
The investigation resulted in an interview at a shelter in Pikeville on March 2, 2021, the statement said. Equipment used to facilitate the crime was seized and taken to KSPâs forensic laboratory for examination, according to the statement. The investigation is ongoing.