Murdered DNC Staffer's Family Has Rejected Report Linking His Death To WikiLeaks

Source: BuzzFeed News | May 16, 2017 | Alex Campbell

The Family Of A Murdered DNC Staffer Has Rejected A Report Linking His Death To WikiLeaks

A report on Monday evening claimed to find links between slain DNC staffer Seth Rich and WikiLeaks. But Rich’s family told BuzzFeed News, “[W]e see no facts, we have seen no evidence, we have been approached with no emails.”

The family of murdered Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich on Tuesday strongly rejected reports claiming he had been in contact with WikiLeaks.

“As we’ve seen through the past year of unsubstantiated claims, we see no facts, we have seen no evidence, we have been approached with no emails and only learned about this when contacted by the press,” spokesperson Brad Bauman told BuzzFeed News in an emailed statement.

Fox 5 in Washington, DC, first reported last night that the “family’s private investigator” had found “tangible evidence” on Rich’s laptop showing he was in touch with WikiLeaks before he died last summer. Then this morning, Fox News reported that Rich “had leaked thousands of internal emails to WikiLeaks,” citing a “federal investigator.”

Yet Rich’s family said in its statement that the private investigator was “paid for by a third party” and under his contract had been “barred from speaking to press” without explicit authorization from the family.

Rich, 27, was shot and killed early one morning in Washington in July of last year. He had been working on a DNC project trying to make it easier for people to find where to vote on Election Day.

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This morning’s Fox News story added a further source, an unnamed “federal investigator” who said, “I have seen and read the emails between Seth Rich and WikiLeaks.” The investigator said that the FBI is in possession of the emails.

The Rich family strongly rebuked these reports as further evidence of conspiracy-theory thinking: “We’ve seen that those interested in pushing conspiracies will stop at nothing to do so.”

“We are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth’s murderers.”

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