Explosive lawsuit alleges ‘conflicted’ reporter exposed candidate’s romantic scandal

Summary

Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin’s former lieutenant governor, filed a defamation suit Tuesday against the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over a story the paper ran while he was competing in the Democratic primary for governor, Urban Milwaukee reports . The suit says the article concerned his consensual sex life and damaged his reputation. It also alleges that a female political reporter at the paper, who it says had an intermittent sexual relationship with Barnes for several years starting around 2018, took part in the reporting. She isn’t named, though the complaint indicates she wasn’t one of the…

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