Zachary Pate, founder and CEO of the business, was born in Jackson, Mississippi, one of 10 children. His father was in prison ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young is celebrating the "vindication" he received after a jury found that CNN had defamed him, concluding the intense two-week court battle.

A Florida jury ruled that CNN defamed U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young in a 2021 story about rescuing endangered Afghans after the Taliban takeover. Young claimed the report damaged his reputation ...

The jury in Panama City, Florida, deliberated for more than eight hours starting Thursday before ruling in favor of Zachary Young, who blamed CNN for destroying his business by showing his face ...

Zachary Young ran a private security firm, Nemex Enterprises, which extracted people from Afghanistan in exchange for fees sometimes totalling thousands of dollars, paid for by sponsors.

Plaintiff Zachary Young sued CNN in 2022 and accused the cable news giant of destroying his reputation in a segment on “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” CNN The six-person jury took less than nine ...

The last-minute settlement of the closely watched media trial came together hours after a six-person jury in Panama City concluded that CNN’s reporting on the plaintiff, Zachary Young ...

The plaintiff, Zachary Young, sued the network saying it harmed his business by including him in a 2021 segment about contractors who the report suggested were profiteering off Afghan refugees ...

Jurors found the embattled network liable for defaming Zachary Young, 49, at a Florida courthouse Friday afternoon. Young, who sued for $15 million, will take home even more cash than the ...