Gregg Hartley, vice chairman of Cassidy & Associates, didn’t like a New York Times story last week on client Equatorial Guinea. So he hit back against reporter Ian Urbina using his personal Twitter feed. “How does NY Times manage its reporter’s conflicts of interest?” Hartley tweeted indignantly on Nov. 17. “Not well. Re: Equatorial Guinea, father was judge in controversial case.”
Urbina’s father, U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina, presided over sentencing in a high-profile Washington case in which Riggs Bank pleaded guilty in 2005 to failing to report suspicious transactions involving accounts held by, among others, leaders of Equatorial Guinea. A Times spokeswoman said Urbina disclosed his father’s role, and it didn’t present a conflict. Judge Urbina pointed out there was no trial.
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