Juleanna Glover and Matt Kaminski, former Editor-in-Chief, Politico, attend “Politico X Showtime” at the International Spy Museum on March 22, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
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In tonight’s edition, we reveal how and why D.C. power player Juleanna Glover, who has represented high-profile media and political figures, is now at the center of a wild defamation suit. The lawsuit involves The Associated Press and a South African businessman with whom she serves on The Washington Post’s Intelligence Global Security Council.
Also, tonight, Politico loses another top editor, WSJ’s big hire, Newsmax makes changes following their settlement with Dominion, and NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas’ past comes back to haunt him.
Finally, it’s Thursday, which can only mean one thing here at Breaker – Journo Jobs. Tonight, we have gigs at the Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, CNN, and The New York Times.
Mentioned tonight: Almar Latour, Emma Tucker, Charles Forelle, Marie Beaudette, Damian Paletta, Bob Rose, David Cho, Janet Adamy, Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch, Lester Holt, John Ryley, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Morse, Candace Owens, Chris Ruddy, Bill Daddi, and more.
Kid Glover
(Exclusive.) She’s the D.C. power player, fixer, and crisis comms pro who has represented and advised everyone from James Murdoch to Elon Musk.
Juleanna Glover has become well known for hosting salons at her D.C. home that bring together journalists, lobbyists, and politicians.
In New York, it’s common for her to organize dinners that convene some of the most powerful and influential editors in media, including those from The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
We last wrote about Glover in June when we revealed that she was representing South African businessman André Pienaar, who is the founder and chief executive of investment firm C5 Capital.
As we first reported in an extraordinary and highly aggressive legal maneuver, Pienaar retained husband and wife law firm Clare Locke, founded by Tom Clare and Libby Locke, to sue an Associated Press reporter, Alan Suderman, for defamation before a story he was working on had even been published.
Suderman had been reporting on the collapse of cybersecurity firm Ironnet, which crashed and burned after receiving a $3 billion valuation, leaving in its wake investors and staff who felt that they had been misled about the financial well-being of the company. C5 Capital and Pienaar were heavily involved in Ironnet.
It was a number of LinkedIn messages Suderman sent former associates of Pienaar in the course of his reporting that attracted the $10 million defamation lawsuit filed in September 2023. The AP persisted with their reporting and a year later published their story.
‘IronNet’s rise and fall also raises questions about the judgment of its well-credentialed leaders, a who’s who of the national security establishment,’ Suderman wrote. ‘National security experts, former employees and analysts told The Associated Press that the firm collapsed, in part, because it engaged in questionable business practices, produced subpar products and services, and entered into associations that could have left the firm vulnerable to meddling by the Kremlin.’
The lawsuit was headed to discovery when, as we reported, Pienaar quietly dropped it in April. Months later, he was appointed to the Washington Post’s Intelligence Global Security Council, which, in an uncanny coincidence, also includes Glover.
Now Breaker has learned both Glover and Pienaar are being sued for defamation, false light invasion of privacy, and civil conspiracy by…
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