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   was known as] the uterus collector. He collects uteruses.   
      
   'And I asked her what does she mean,' she recalled, doing the interview   
   remotely at a time where illegal immigration was a national talking   
   point and the US was in the throes of the pandemic.   
      
   'She says, "Everybody that I talk to has had a hysterectomy." And you   
   just don't know what to say.'   
      
   Wooten herself filed a legal complaint, further claiming officials were   
   denying Covid-19 tests to immigrants and shredded records.   
      
   At the time, Wooten and other Americans were protesting the ICE   
   facility, with some likening it and others like it to a 'camp.'   
      
   This was after she faced disciplinary action after openly airing the   
   claims and was told she no longer had a full-time position.   
      
   Before the claims from the single mother were found to be false, Chris   
   Scholl, NBCUniversal's deputy director of standards, questioned the   
   veracity of the lawsuit.   
      
   He hosted the whistleblower behind the claims, a nurse named Dawn   
   Wooten, twice, before her story was found out to be false years later   
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   He hosted the whistleblower behind the claims, a nurse named Dawn   
   Wooten, twice, before her story was found out to be false years later   
      
      
     'The guy has a pretty clean record,' Scholl said of Amin during a   
   conference call with Hayes the day after both broadcasts, according to   
   notes released in the since-settled filing.   
      
   Scholl added how Wooten 'has no direct knowledge of this stuff' and   
   could 'have a beef'.   
      
   'We just don’t know if any of this is true,' the filing credited him as   
   saying, while revealing that he openly declared that he 'had no idea   
   whether Wooten’s claims were accurate, and whether or not Amin was a "a   
   good doctor or a shitty doctor."   
      
   'We don’t know the facts here,' Scholl continued - to which a listening   
   Hayes replied: 'Right, right, right, right.'   
      
   In response, Hayes added how both he and  Maddow 'initially questioned   
   reporting on the allegations,' and suggested there was a lot of 'jumping   
   to conclusions around the complaint'.   
      
   They both covered it anyway. In addition, Hayes did a second segment on   
   the subject later in the week.   
      
   Also jumping to conclusions was Wallace, who hosted Ainsley on a White   
   House-heavy addition of Deadline to openly discuss Wooten's false claims.   
      
   Again, Ainsley attributed the information to 'four lawyers' representing   
   those same women, none of whom were named.   
      
   Also jumping to conclusions was MSNBC's Nicole Wallace, who hosted Julia   
   Ainsley, one of the NBC News reporters who dreamt up the story based on   
   accounts from lawyers said to be representing detainees, on a White   
   House-heavy addition of Deadline in September 2020   
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   Also jumping to conclusions was MSNBC's Nicole Wallace, who hosted Julia   
   Ainsley, one of the NBC News reporters who dreamt up the story based on   
   accounts from lawyers said to be representing detainees, on a White   
   House-heavy addition of Deadline in September 2020   
      
      
   In internal correspondence revealed during discovery, she too expressed   
   doubt about the story's truth- after Soboroff wrote to her in a text   
   that an immigration attorney he spoke with offered 'mixed feelings'   
   about Wooten.   
      
   Ainsley, in response, expressed concern at the small number of   
   procedures Amin was alleged to perform.   
      
   'Just two hysterectomies?' she wrote to Soboroff on September 15, 2020 -   
   the day of the Maddow and Hayes broadcasts.   
      
   Amin, a year later, filed his lawsuit against NBCUniversal, alleging he   
   was falsely portrayed as 'an abusive, unethical, and dishonest physician   
   who treated and operated on immigrant women in an abusive fashion.'   
      
   He also sought to quash the claims he did any operations 'without   
   consent, and [had been] motivated by profit instead of quality healthcare.'   
      
   In her July ruling, a judge, Lisa Godbey Wood of the Southern District,   
   found that Maddow, Hayes and Wallace made 39 'verifiably false'   
   allegations about Amin.   
      
   The judgment paved the way for pretrial proceedings, which are now at an   
   end following Thursday's filing revealing NBCU's willingness to settle.   
      
   The decision comes days after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr ordered a   
   federal investigation into Comcast and its NBCUniversal operations,   
   focused on the telecommunication firm's DEI initiatives and practices.   
      
   Fellow correspondent Jacob Soboroff - seen speaking with Wooten and her   
   lawyer on the same episode of Deadline - was also part of the unfounded   
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   Fellow correspondent Jacob Soboroff - seen speaking with Wooten and her   
   lawyer on the same episode of Deadline - was also part of the unfounded   
   story   
      
   At the time, Wooten and other Americans were protesting the ICE   
   facility, with some painting it as concentration camp+   
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   At the time, Wooten and other Americans were protesting the ICE   
   facility, with some painting it as concentration camp   
      
   Amin, a year later, filed his lawsuit, alleging he was falsely portrayed   
   as 'an abusive, unethical, and dishonest physician who treated and   
   operated on immigrant women in an abusive fashion.' Maddow, Hayes, and   
   Wallace made 39 'verifiably false' allegations about Amin+   
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   Amin, a year later, filed his lawsuit, alleging he was falsely portrayed   
   as 'an abusive, unethical, and dishonest physician who treated and   
   operated on immigrant women in an abusive fashion.' Maddow, Hayes, and   
   Wallace made 39 'verifiably false' allegations about Amin   
      
   It also comes days after CNN agreed to settle a defamation suit with an   
   Army vet they erroneously painted as profiting off of the 2021 pullout   
   of Afghanistan - one of Joe Biden's first moves in office.   
      
   Maddow, meanwhile, was among those deposed for the Amin defamation suit,   
   which was widely overlooked by mainstream media outlets.   
      
   News of the settlement, moreover, was first reported by The Washington   
   Post’s Jeremy Barr. A number has not been made public.   
      
   Meanwhile, SpinCo - a newly created spinoff of some of NBCU and   
   Comcast's channels - is currently discussing how to properly separate   
   MSNBC and CNBC from NBC News.   
      
   MSNBC, CNBC, and networks like USA, CNBC, MSNBC, Oxygen, E!, SYFY and   
   the Golf Channel will go the new company, while Comcast will retain   
   NBCUniversal assets like NBC and NBC News.   
      
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