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Cynthia Cotts says the New York Post has hired its onetime police reporter, Anne Murray, to get dirt on Nikki Finke, another former Post reporter who was fired after Disney complained about her reporting. Finke sued the tabloid after her dismissal. Her lawyer tells Cotts: “If they are trying to intimidate us, it has had a reverse effect.”
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Lawyer says NY Post’s Finke probe is “sleazy,” “desperate”
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