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Gerald Posner subsequently hired attorney Mark Lane, threatening litigation against the Miami New Times on grounds of tortious interference ( i. e. that its investigation and reporting of this case damaged Posner ’ s business relationship with his publishers ) and emotional distress.

In a press release, Posner stated " Although I'm convinced Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President Kennedy, I've always believed that had Mark Lane represented Oswald, he would have won an acquittal.

That's why Mark Lane was the obvious choice as my own attorney.

" Soon thereafter, the Miami New Times published evidence of additional plagiarism from multiple sources in both Secrets of the Kingdom and Why America Slept.

According to Poynter Institute senior scholar Roy Peter Clark, " This constitutes plagiarism by any definition I can think of .... The capturing of someone else's material that is this extensive cannot, in my opinion, have been done accidentally.

" Evidence was also presented indicating that Posner had repeatedly “ scrubbed ” elements of the journalism scandal from his Wikipedia page.

According to Posner, the media reports detailing his journalistic transgressions were actually the result of a " coordinated effort " to " discredit my book Miami Babylon " because of the book's " unvarnished and investigative history ".