Newsmax agreed to pay $ 40m smartmatics with the voting machine company star-news.press/wp

NewsMax agreed to pay $ 40 million, as part of a settlement last year, after the question of the defamation of the voting technology company, against the news of the news according to a new regulations archive.

The settlement received in September allows you to receive payment and cash in cash, in the company of the media said in his archive. Newsmax has said that payments of $ 20 million have already been made, the rest before July.

“Management believes that the liquidation of the smartmatic will, considering the elimination of future legal expenses, who expected the company to be linked to this suit, which would lead to the legal action and other issues,” Newsmax wrote.

NEWSMAX does not respond immediately to a request for comment on Thursday night.

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The payment detail allows you to know the confidential agreement that were not available in public. The 2021 case is focused on false claims of Newsmax, SmartMatic machines 2020 manipulated the presidency elections in favor of Joe Biden. The case reached a deal before going to the trial.

After last year settlement, Newsmax said in a statement The court has acknowledged the courts (US presidency elections) and somehow changed or manipulated their results, actually, false / lies. “”

Smartmatic solved a defamation lawsuit related in April against an American news, the sum of what was not publicly known.

J. Erik Connolly, a smartmatic external lawyer said on Thursday, is focused on the company’s similar case against Fox News.

“We look forward to presenting our evidence to a jury and finally have the opportunity to hold the fox for its harmful actions,” Connolly said.

Fox has said about 2020 election events and covered people.

Fox News, Fox Corp, obtained a settlement in 2023 to pay $ 787.5 million to repair the Dominion Boting Systems for the election technology company.