As NewsBusters previously reported back in September, Judge William Scott Henry ordered CNN to comply with financial discovery in the $1 billion defamation suit against them and turn over documents related to net worth and cash flow, among others. The order was further supported in October when he cleared the way for CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to be subpoenaed for corroborating documents.
But despite CNN’s promises to the court that those documents would be turned over, nothing of the sort has been provided; with CNN and WBD saying they don’t exist. In a Friday filings exclusively obtained by NewsBusters, U.S. Navy veteran and Plaintiff Zachary Young is now accused CNN of knowingly misleading the court on the existence of the documents and the ability to comply.
And what he’s now asking for could take a chunk out of Warner Bros….
