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DCI Group LLC: smearing alleged war criminal's victim for money
by Adriaan Alsema September 2, 2020
Washington DC lobby firm DCI Group embarked on a disinformation campaign in defense of Colombia’s former President Alvaro Uribe, who is under house arrest on fraud and bribery charges.
Following a $40,000/month deal with Uribe’s son Tomas, DCI Group announced it would be “the principal U.S. strategic communications firm” to save the public image of Uribe, an admitted former associate of the now-defunct Medellin Cartel and alleged war criminal.
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Classy: smearing the alleged victim
On the website “Free Uribe,” the firm falsely claimed that ‘all of the accusations against Alvaro Uribe originated from… Senator Ivan Cepeda,” while in fact they come from the Supreme Court, which found evidence indicating that the far-right former president was bribing witnesses in order to file fraudulent criminal charges against the opposition lawmaker.
The website went as far as to claim that “Cepeda and the [now-demobilized guerrilla group] FARC have shared a common goal:… “a Marxist state.”
More:
https://colombiareports.com/dci-group-llc-smearing-alleged-war-criminals-victim-for-money/