I have no beef with them , but hypocrisy is where I draw the line--Calling yourself an independent journalist while taking millions from russians? It's one or the other
The charges against them were not dropped. If you mean Tim Pool and gang--They were never charged. They claimed they did not know where the money was coming from, which is just how these things work, but who can say
However, The DOJ indictment shows private communication from the Tenet Media founders that they did in fact know the 'fictional European investor' was fake, and they knew all along that all this money was coming from Russia, but they continued to lie about it in order to cover it up
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