Judge Orders The New York Times to Return Legal Memos to Project Veritas

Also orders NYT to remove story it published based on the confidential memos

The New York Times building is seen in New York on Aug. 3, 2020. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters

A New York judge has ordered The New York Times to return confidential legal memos that it obtained between investigative journalism organization Project Veritas and the group’s attorney.

The New York Times had obtained the memos that were prepared by Project Veritas attorney Benjamin Barr. It remains unclear how they were obtained. The media outlet then published the documents online. It later took them down, but an article published on Nov. 11 describing the memos was still available on the paper’s website.