A high-profile national defamation attorney is accusing Santa Fe-based New Energy Economy of “false and defamatory statements” against energy giant Avangrid.
Elizabeth “Libby” Locke of the Virginia-based law firm Clare Locke LLP sent a letter to NEE excutive director Mariel Nanasi on May 4 demanding she “immediately retract and correct” a “false and defamatory accusation” that Nanasi allegedly made against Locke’s client Avangrid during an April 14 interview on Retake Our Democracy, a half-hour weekly program broadcast on KSFR radio.
Locke is one of the attorneys who helped Dominion Voting Systems win a $787 million settlement against Fox News.
During the KSFR interview, Nanasi “falsely charged” that Avangrid and its parent firm, Iberdrola S.A. “literally have bought out judges, bribed judges,” according to Locke’s letter.
“Your charges are patently false,” Locke said in the letter. “To be clear: Avangrid and Iberdrola have never ‘bought out’ or ‘bribed’ judges. Nor have they been credibly accused of such malfeasance.”
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In response, Nanasi attorney Christopher Dodd said his client “denies defaming” Avangrid but will ask Retake Our Democracy to post a clarification of her comments on their website and on the YouTube posting of the interview.
“Ms. Nanasi reviewed her statement and her research, and she believes she may have misspoken,” Dodd said in a May 7 letter to Locke.
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