Erik Prince’s Defamation Suit Over Intercept Article Dismissed

Blackwater founder Erik Prince lost a round in his defamation lawsuit over an Intercept article detailing his alleged involvement with semi-private Russian military forces, when a Manhattan federal judge dismissed his case.

The lawsuit challenges an August 2020 article from the online nonprofit news site The Intercept, which portrayed Prince as meeting with a top official of Russia’s Wagner Group and offering his mercenary forces to support the firm’s operations in Libya and Mozambique. Prince, who denies meeting with the group or offering these services, accuses the Intercept of knowingly publishing false claims and wrongly portraying him as a criminal ...