Bahamian Leader Drops NBC Lawsuit
NBC News said Friday that Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling has dropped his libel suit against the network for 1983 and 1984 reports that Colombian cocaine drug lords were using the island as a base and had made payoffs to officials.
NBC News President Michael Gartner said NBC paid no money to the prime minister and made no apologies for the broadcasts.
“This is a complete vindication of our journalism. This lawsuit should never have been brought in the first place,” Gartner said.
Since the broadcasts, Colombian drug lord Carlos Lehder, who ran the Bahamian base, has been convicted of drug trafficking and is serving a life sentence in a U.S. jail, and federal grand juries in Florida have indicted two former associates of Pindling’s on drug conspiracy charges.
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