Attorney Joseph Tacopina’s defamation lawsuit against Bernard Kerik’s lawyer and a New York City newspaper has been dismissed by a federal judge.

Southern District Judge Paul Crotty said that the fair reporting privilege protected allegedly defamatory statements that Kerik attorney Timothy Parlatore made to the New York Daily News in 2014, and he dismissed claims against the newspaper for two articles published in October 2014.

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