“It absolutely is not extortion and not blackmail,” Elkan Abramowitz, Pecker’s attorney, told ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday. An attorney representing David Pecker , chairman and CEO of American Media Inc., claimed the media company’s threat to publish nude photos of Amazon head Jeff Bezos if he didn’t cooperate with its terms was not blackmail. Bezos, who owns The Washington Post, has suggested AMI may have been politically motivated to out his affair. “Several days ago, an AMI leader advised us that Mr. Pecker is ‘apoplectic’ about our investigation,” Bezos wrote in the blog post. On Sunday, Pecker’s attorney Abramowitz would not confirm whether Sanchez’s brother was the source of the texts and photos, but claimed neither Trump nor Saudi Arabia was behind it.

Source: Huffington Post February 10, 2019 16:18 UTC