The Wall Street Journal’s ex-chief foreign correspondent, Jay Solomon, accuses law firm Dechert LLP for using hackers to steal emails between him and Iranian American businessman Farhad Azima.
Solomon acknowledged “serious mistakes in managing my source relationship with Azima” but he said he had been the target of an “incredibly effective” information operation. (Reuters)
A former Wall Street Journal reporter has accused a major US law firm of having used mercenary hackers from India to oust him from his job and ruin his reputation.
In a lawsuit filed late on Friday, Jay Solomon, the Journal’s former chief foreign correspondent, said Philadelphia-based Dechert LLP worked with Indian hackers to steal emails between him and one of his key sources, Iranian American aviation executive Farhad Azima.
Solomon said the messages, which showed Azima floating the idea of the two of them going into business together, were put into a dossier and circulated in a successful effort to get him fired.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, said the law firm Dechert “wrongfully disclosed this dossier first to Mr. Solomon’s employer, the Wall Street Journal, at its Washington DC bureau, and then to other media outlets in an attempt to malign and discredit him."
It said the campaign “effectively caused Mr. Solomon to be blackballed by the journalistic and publishing community.”
Dechert said in an email that it disputed the claim and would fight it in court. Azima — who filed his own lawsuit against Dechert on Thursday in New York — had no immediate comment.
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