| John List of
Claudia Drury Clients Draws Legal Threat
to Press Before Larry Ray Sentencing
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURT/UN
GATE, Nov 14 – In the course of
covering and live-tweeting the
US v. Larry Ray sex cult trial
for two weeks, Inner City
Press has obtained and
published a number of the
exhibits.
The same
occurred on the night of March
21: a list of Ray's victim
Claudia Drury's prostitution
clients.
Inner City
Press uploaded it to its
DocumentCloud, and spoke about
the list in a brief vlog on
the morning of March 22 on the
way into the Southern District
of New York courthouse to
cover the day's trial starting
at 9 am.
Just before
10 am the prosecutors' press
office emailed reporters and
asked that the exhibit be
taken down. In an abundance of
caution, Inner City Press
deleted the document from its
DocumentCloud - and wrote to
several accounts at the
Reporters Committee for
Freedom of the Press asking
for a statement of applicable
First Amendment law.
By the
afternoon, having covered the
trial until Larry Ray citing a
seizure was taken out on a
stretched (Inner City Press
tweeted video here),
a second request came in from
the spokesperson, to delete
the March 21 evening tweet of
the list, which still had an
image from DocumentCloud.
With no
response from RCFP and after
conferring with others, Inner
City Press added an explanation
to the tweet, which stayed and
stays
up but deleted the tweet
with the image.
Now a month
later, the bases of the favor
are gone, as (for a time) was
a book on the topic - now
back, here.
Update of
November 14, 2022: one of the
names on the list was and is
Ismaila Whittier. On November
14, repeated and escalating
messages threatening legal
action unless story quoting
the list, accurately, were
received. While any such legal
action would be frivolous and
sanctionable, we publish the
denials as received:
"I’m a nobody and
I did not do the things you
said I did, I don’t know why
you’re targeting me. 2:23 PM I
can’t have my name popping up
in Google searches for things
I didn’t do. Please take down
my name. I am innocent and I
didn’t do these things you
said I did. Please get back to
me ASAP. 2:35 PM This is
libel, if you don’t take this
down I will have to sue! 3:27
PM I’m not a diplomat and I
don’t work for the state
department and I’m not a John
and never have been, this is
Libel! Please respond to my
emails and messages and take
down all your posts about me
immediately. Including this
one: I seriously
don’t understand why you’re
targeting me. I will take
legal action against if you do
not resolve this by end of day
tomorrow. against you* "
We'll have
more on this, here and on
other platforms.
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