{"id":7417,"date":"2011-03-31T10:02:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7417"},"modified":"2011-03-31T16:47:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T20:47:22","slug":"nygard-battles-conspirators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/03\/nygard-battles-conspirators","title":{"rendered":"Nygard Battles Conspirators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion mogul Peter Nygard plans to file a criminal complaint against the CBC, alleging the state broadcaster defamed him in a documentary that aired last spring.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the network broadcast an unflattering profile of the fashion designer, who has a residence in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>Arrest warrants have been issued for the two &#8220;witnesses&#8221; who were featured in the televised assault on Nygard&#8217;s reputation.\u00a0 Both Allan and Michelle May workled briefly for Nygard. The pair are wanted for refusing to pay a $189,000 fine stemming from a civil fraud charge leveled against them a year before the Nygard documentary aired.<\/p>\n<p>Nygard claims the television documentary was bogus, fabricated on orders from Louis Bacon, the billionare hedge fund manager who is embroiled in a property dispute with his neighbor, Nygard, in the cushy Lyford Cay community near Nassau, Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The Calgary Sun quotes a London-based spokesman for Nygard as saying, &#8220;We are appalled by the calculated actions of the CBC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have and will continue to vigorously defend our brand.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fashion mogul Peter Nygard plans to file a criminal complaint against the CBC, alleging the state broadcaster defamed him in a documentary that aired last spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[77,32,35],"class_list":["post-7417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-courts","tag-lyford-cay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}