In response, Mr. Fox of HarperCollins said in his letter to the lawyer that the description of the inside trading activities was "based on a reliable source," although upon investigation the accusations proved "erroneous".
"When I first heard of this matter, I genuinely believed that it was erroneous, that it was an accusation that would prove to be false," she said.
When arbitrators meet to consider a request, they typically only hear the broker's side of the story, making it easier to conclude that accusations are false or erroneous.
In written statements published on its website on 3 and 6 May, the institute dismissed IGAS's accusations as "totally unfounded," "erroneous, unfair and malevolent," saying it would "not let [the report] tarnish its image and values".
As the broadcast clearly shows, the accusation was completely unfounded and erroneous.
He asked Stevenson to find three ballistics experts to verify the truth that the accusation of that particular gun being the murder weapon had been erroneous; he said he needed Stevenson to make sure the experts were 1) white men, 2) from the South, and 3) in favor of the death penalty.
Another accusation, that he distributed radical literature to the detainees, was based on an erroneous translation of an Islamic symbol in Ottoman-style calligraphy.
At the same time, National Review, one of the conservative magazines that strongly attacked The New Republic over the diarist articles, finds itself fending off accusations that accounts of armed Hezbollah gunmen in Lebanon reported in its blog in September were erroneous.
