• President of the Human Rights Foundation is suing two founders of Fusion GPS under the RICO statute.
• Thor Halvorssen claims two reporters who founded Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate against him for blowing the whistle on one of Fusion’s clients.
• The Fusion founders were hired to produce a dossier and a media campaign to depict Halvorrsen as a pedophile and addict, according to the lawsuit.

A prominent human rights activist is suing two of the founders of Fusion GPS and several Venezuelan businessmen under a statute usually associated with the Mafia.

Thor Halvorssen, the president of the Human Rights Foundation, claims that Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former Wall Street Journal reporters who founded Fusion, engaged in a conspiracy to retaliate against him for blowing the whistle on one of Fusion’s clients, a Venezuelan power plant company called Derwick Associates.

The two Fusion founders were hired to produce a dossier and a media campaign “to depict Halvorrsen as a pedophile, heroin addict, and embezzler of the Foundation’s money,” reads Halvorssen’s lawsuit, which he filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute.

Mostly linked to organized crime cases, RICO can also be used in civil cases against legitimate businesses. Halvorssen’s case rests on the theory that Derwick and Fusion GPS engaged in a conspiracy to intimidate a whistleblower, 

http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/22/rico-lawsuit-fusion-gps/

Suit cites the oppo firm’s smears against himself and two other men, Alek Boyd and Bill Browder.