Emails and text messages revealed through discovery showed the paper's owner embarked on a personal "Holocaust" against the Mayor over concerns for his own Everett based businesses, including the soon-to-be shuttered Leader Herald.


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Originally Published: <time datetime="2024-12-16 19:45:32">December 16, 2024 at 7:45 PM EST</time>

Emails and text messages revealed through discovery showed the paper’s owner embarked on a personal “Holocaust” against the Mayor over concerns for his own Everett based businesse…{ai:summary}<p>Emails and texts indicate that the owner of a local paper initiated a personal campaign against the Mayor, driven by worries about his Everett businesses, particularly the impending closure of the Leader Herald. </p><p>#politics</p>

Everett Mayor’s defamation suit ends with sealed settlement, closure of local paper

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