{"id":5019,"date":"2025-04-01T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/miami-gc-refuses-retraction-over-alleged-mayor-affair-defamation-warning\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T04:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:27:00","slug":"miami-gc-refuses-retraction-over-alleged-mayor-affair-defamation-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/miami-gc-refuses-retraction-over-alleged-mayor-affair-defamation-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami GC Refuses Retraction Over Alleged Mayor Affair, Defamation Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>The Miami general counsel for the Political Cortadito fired back at opposing counsel on Friday, declining to issue a retraction over an article in which a journalist working for the publication claimed to have uncovered dirt on an alleged affair between Coral Gables Mayor Vince Lago and a staffer, as well as an alleged backdoor real estate arrangement between the two. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <!----> <!----> <!----><\/p>\n<div data-v-e97bc92c=\"\">\n<p>\u201cThe reporter believes the story is accurate in all respects and under <i>New York Times v. Sullivan<\/i>, truth is a complete defense to a defamation action,\u201d David Winker, who represents the Political Cortadito and its reporter Elaine M. De Valle, said in an email, referring to the precedent-setting 1964 landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <!----> <!----> <!----> <!----><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami general counsel for the Political Cortadito fired back at opposing counsel on Friday, declining to issue a retraction over an article in which a journalist working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5313,460,720,614,1787,5311,5312,5040],"class_list":["post-5019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-affair","tag-alleged","tag-defamation","tag-mayor","tag-miami","tag-refuses","tag-retraction","tag-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}