#Ed Butowsky

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Today, Marty sat down with Ed Butowsky to discuss the real inflation numbers the Fed is hiding from Americans. They cover the cost-of-living increases that the CPI falsely shows by analyzing the Chapwood index. This ranges from higher food prices to higher energy costs. True Inflation data is much higher than most think, affecting all economic data, including real GDP growth.

Ed on Twitter: https://x.com/EdButowsky

Chapwood Index: https://chapwoodindex.com/

0:00 - Intro

1:31 - Cost-of-Living Adjustment

7:17 - Mischaracterization of CPI

10:01 - Fed policy and GDP

15:38 - Unchained & Coinkite

17:31 - Effect of band aid policy and gaslighting

20:07 - Sovereign debt crisis and monetary base

23:39 - Realistic risk estimates for clients

25:26 - Zaprite & SOTE

26:59 - Bitcoin

31:55 - Defaults and dollar weaponization

34:50 - Trump & conservative policy

40:32 - State autonomy and energy renaissance

43:02 - Wrap up

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In this video, Ed Butowsky & Kevin T. Carter explain an often-overlooked segment of the investment world. They go into details rarely heard on the mainstream media.

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Ed Butowsky

Ed Butowsky, managing partner of Chapwood Investments, LLC has the unique ability to recognize how current events affect investment portfolios.

An internationally recognized expert in the investment wealth management and personal finance industry, he was featured in “Broke,” the critically acclaimed ESPN “30 for 30” documentary that chronicles professional athletes and their financial experiences, and in the most popular Sports Illustrated article ever: “How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke.”

Celebrities and athletes count on Ed Butowsky to provide advice on everything from contract negotiations and agent disputes to family finances and how people with money can take steps to keep it.

Ed is a mentor to up-and-coming athletes and their parents, but it isn’t only public figures who seek his advice. Private individuals come to him in search of new strategies for their financial concerns. Ed Butowsky is best known for his straight talk and his willingness to roll up his sleeves and find solutions to issues that others want no part of. His more than 25 years in the financial services industry began at Morgan Stanley, where he was a senior vice president in private wealth management. In his 18 years there, he was the firm’s top producer nationally as well as the first adviser to surpass $1 billion in assets under management. Ed Butowsky was recognized as a member of both the Chairman’s Club and the Equity Club, distinctions reserved for only the top advisers at Morgan Stanley.

Ed’s unique talent for taking a news story, explaining if and how it affects people’s finances and offering suggestions for action has made him a sought-after commentator, and he has appeared hundreds of times on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, Fox Business News, FOX News Channel, Bloomberg TV and China TV. Ed Butowsky is often seen on “Varney and Co,” “Closing Bell,” “Street Signs,” “Your World with Cavuto,” “America Live with Megyn Kelly,” “Willis Report,” “America’s News HQ,” “Taking Stock with Pimm Fox” and “Wilkow! with Andrew Wilkow.” Ed Butowsky has appeared on TheBlaze TV and is a Blaze Branded Contributor for The Blaze online. Additionally, he is an op-ed contributor who has written articles relating to financial topics for National Center for Policy Analysis, FoxBusiness.com, FoxNews.com, Breitbart.com and others. He was a keynote speaker at the American Bar Association Bankruptcy Division and was featured in the PBS Frontline interview “To Catch a Trader.” Ed Butowsky serves as a Board Member for Reclaim New York, a non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to advancing a grassroots conversation about the future of New York, it’s economy and it’s people.

Ed regularly talks about wealth management and other timely subjects related to finance and investment on radio shows around the country, including “Mad Dog Radio” and “Bloomberg Radio.” Ed Butowsky was featured as one of seven financial coaches/experts in the first-of-its-kind online reality series, “The Invested Life,” a nine-month series that featured real people facing common investment concerns and their journey to take control of their finances. Ed Butowsky has lectured at Yale University, NYU Stern School of Business and SMU Cox School of Business, and he speaks to financial advisers throughout the U.S. on how to manage portfolios properly. He is the originator of the CHIP score, the first metric designed to evaluate and score a portfolio’s strength based on all elements that attribute to performance: rate of return, risk, inflation, taxes, management fees and investment fees. He is also the creator of the Chapwood Index, a real cost of living index that shows, on a quarterly basis, a more accurate figure than the Consumer Price Index for cost of living increases in the nation’s top 50 major metropolitan areas. In 2005, Ed Butowsky launched Chapwood Investments, LLC, a private wealth management advisory firm that focuses on providing comprehensive financial counseling and investment advice to wealthy families and individuals. Under the management of Ed Butowsky and his partner, Kim Sams, Chapwood Investments was awarded the 2015 Alternative Investment Award for Excellence in Investment Wealth Management – USA. A respected member of the Greater Dallas community, Ed lives with his wife and 2 children in Plano, Texas. He is an avid tennis and golf player. Ed Butowskyis an accomplished speaker on a variety of investment topics. via Blogger http://brigittetwisss.blogspot.com/2017/11/ed-butowsky.html

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8/01/2017 The Washington Post: A timeline of the explosive lawsuit alleging a White House link in the Seth Rich conspiracy

8/01/2017 NPR: Behind Fox News' Baseless Seth Rich Story: The Untold Tale

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FBI Has Files From Laptop of Slain DNC Staffer Seth Rich

BY ZACHARY STIEBER

December 11, 2020 Updated: December 11, 2020

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has files from the laptop computer belonging to Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee (DNC) employee who was killed in 2016, according to a new email.

The bureau also has tens of thousands of documents mentioning Rich.

The FBI “has completed the initial search identifying approximately 50 cross-reference serials, with attachments totaling over 20,000 pages, in which Seth Rich is mentioned,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrea Parker wrote in the message to attorney Ty Clevenger, who is representing a plaintiff in Huddleston v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, a case dealing with a Freedom of Information Act request to the bureau.

“FBI has also located leads that indicate additional potential records that require further searching,” Parker added.

The Epoch Times confirmed the email is legitimate.

Parker, who is representing the FBI in the case, didn’t respond to an email or return a voicemail.

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The bureau also confirmed it has files from Rich’s laptop and suggested it still has the computer in its possession.

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The bureau is “currently working on getting the files from Seth Rich’s personal laptop into a format to be reviewed,” Parker said in the email. She also said the FBI plans on undertaking some level of review of the computer.

The disclosure came as part of a case brought in federal court by Texas resident Brian Huddleston, who filed a Freedom of Information Act request in April asking the FBI to produce all data, documents, records, or communications that reference Seth Rich or his brother, Aaron Rich.

The FBI told the plaintiff in June that it would take 8 to 10 months to provide a final response to the request, prompting the filing of the case in the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

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Rich was working for the DNC when he was shot and killed in Washington on July 10, 2016. The murder remains unsolved.

The new email bolsters a key charge in Huddleston’s filing: that David Hardy, the FBI’s records chief, was wrong when he said in two affidavits that the FBI searched for records pertaining to Rich but could not find any.

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Seth Rich is pictured on a poster created by police officials to urge people with information about his murder to come forward. (Metropolitan Police Department)

The first sign that the testimony was erroneous came earlier this year when the nonprofit watchdog Judicial Watch received emails exchanged between FBI agent Peter Strzok and Department of Justice lawyer Lisa Page. The production included several emails mentioning Rich.

Another sign came in March, when former Assistant U.S. Attorney Deborah Sines was deposed in a separate case, Ed Butowsky v. David Folkenflik et. al.

Sines testified that the FBI conducted an investigation into possible hacking attempts on Seth Rich’s electronic accounts following his murder. She said FBI agents examined Rich’s laptop as part of the probe and that a search should uncover emails between her and FBI personnel. She also said she met with a prosecutor and an FBI agent assigned to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team.

The FBI declined to comment, citing a policy of not commenting on pending litigation.

The judge overseeing the Huddleston case in October ordered the defense to produce documents and an index.

In the new email, the government lawyer said the FBI has made “significant progress” in searching for documents mentioning Rich, but still has much work left, including processing the approximately 50 cross-references, undertaking some level of review of the laptop, and completing all remaining services.

The efforts are hampered by the FBI’s Freedom of Information Act office being at 50 percent of its normal workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The government is proposing an amended schedule that would give it three more months to produce the records.

Julian Assange

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at court in London on May 1, 2019. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP via Getty Images)

Clevenger, Huddleston’s lawyer, told The Epoch Times via email that his client is hoping to find out why the FBI was involved in the case, and why it originally denied involvement.

“We suspect the FBI may be right that the Metropolitan Police Dept. in D.C. was responsible for investigating Seth’s murder, so that leaves a couple of likely explanations for the FBI’s role: it was investigating a counterintelligence matter or a computer crime. Either scenario would be consistent with Seth transmitting DNC emails to Wikileaks,” he added, referencing a theory about the source of emails from inside the DNC that were later published by Wikileaks.

The theory was the core of a story Fox News published in 2017. It later retracted the report but was sued by Rich’s family.

Fox settled with Rich’s family last month.

A federal judge overseeing the case had earlier this year requested testimony from Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange.

Rich was killed less than two weeks before WikiLeaks “released a collection of thousands of internal emails and documents taken from the DNC servers,” according to a court filing. One month after Rich’s murder, Assange referenced the DNC staffer in an interview with a Dutch television reporter when discussing the dangers faced by WikiLeaks sources. On Aug. 9, 2016, WikiLeaks offered $20,000 for information about Rich’s murder. The website increased the reward to $130,000 in January 2017.

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) several weeks after Rich was shot dead offered a reward for information. A spokeswoman told The Epoch Times via email that the case “remains under active investigation.”

The spokeswoman declined to answer whether the FBI assisted police with its probe. “MPD remains the lead investigative agency over this homicide,” she said.

A firm investigating the DNC situation, Crowdstrike, alleged that the committee’s servers were hacked by Russian actors, but a transcript declassified in May showed the firm had no direct evidence of that claim.

Clevenger said he thinks the timing of the email from Parker, the assistant U.S. attorney, is significant.

“Some of my colleagues suspect the Trump Administration has pushed the release, but I doubt that,” he wrote. “With the purported election of Joe Biden, the FBI brass probably think they are in the clear, and nothing will ever happen to them, so they no longer have any reason to hide what they did.”

Ivan Pentchoukov contributed to this report.

Follow Zachary on Twitter: @zackstieber

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Businessman Ed Butowsky, alleges Wikileaks founder Julian Assange confirmed to Fox News analyst Ellen Ratner that the DNC leaked emails were received from Seth Rich and his brother Aaron.

The details contained within the lawsuit filing are stunning.

If this information is true and accurate, the DOJ claim of a Russian hack would be entirely false.  Additionally the DC murder of Seth Rich would hold a far more alarming motive. 

The ramifications here are almost too large to describe.

If this information turns out to be true and accurate, the entire narrative around the DNC “hack” will have been proven to be intentionally manufactured.

This is from the lawsuit by Edward Butowsky against The New York Times, Vox Media, and others:

Seth Rich

(full pdf of the lawsuit)

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Veteran Journalist on Trump-Russia Collusion: it Was a “Brennan Operation – American Disinformation” (Video)

Veteran Journalist on Trump-Russia Collusion: it Was a “Brennan Operation – American Disinformation” (Video)

By Tim Brown

��We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” -Former CIA Director William Casey

Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh recently spoke to Ed Butowsky, who has filed a lawsuit alleging that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange communicated to a Fox News reporter that Seth Rich, the DNC staffer who was murdered in 2016 just prior to…

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Ed Butowsky

Ed Butowsky is an internationally recognized expert in the investment wealth management industry. Ed Butowsky has been in the financial services industry for over 22 years. He is also a frequent guest on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox Business News, FOX News Channel, and Bloomberg TV. Ed Butowsky is often seen on Varney and Co., Willis Report, America's News HQ as well as Taking Stock with Pimm Fox. Ed is also regularly heard on radio shows around the country such as Mad Dog Radio and Bloomberg Radio discussing wealth management, economics, and other timely subjects that are of interest to the finance/investments world. Ed Butowsky was featured as a financial expert and coach in the first-of-its-kind online reality series, The Invested Life, which follows real people who face today's most common money concerns and their journey to taking control of their finances.

What is happening in our industry, in my mind, is criminal. Investing has become more of a game of PR and image than the facts. What I saw going on out there just made me sick to my stomach. Because you had portfolios that were so far out of balance, and they still are today, and they're still being sold today.

Chapwood Forensics’ analysis-which the company offers free of charge-can be boiled down to three key questions: what is my portfolio's historical rate of return versus its standard deviation? What is the Sharpe Ratio of my portfolio, and what should it be? What are the total fees being charged? (The answers, in order: 60 percent or less, one or higher, and 1 percent or less.) It is OK if you don't understand the answers. It is OK if you don’t even understand the questions. Ed Butowsky understands. “Because it's confusing, people don't talk about it,” he says. “But because it's confusing doesn't mean it shouldn't be talked about.”

Because it's confusing, people don't talk about it. But because it's confusing doesn't mean it shouldn't be talked about.

Confusion is Ed Butowsky's biggest enemy. He tells a story about a young NFL player whose financial advisor told the player he couldn't say how much he was being charged to manage his tax-exempt bonds because of the Patriot Act. “The player said, "Oh, he can't tell me because of the Patriot Act," Ed Butowsky says. “I said, "That's not true. Will you please tell us?" He said, "No, I can't tell you." Turns out, he's being charged 2 percent to manage his tax-exempt bonds. But the financial advisor told him what? It doesn't matter how much we charge you because you can write it off. Well, guess what? When we do our forensics, we do a lot more detail work. You can't write off the money management of tax-exempt bonds. So this guy is being charged $146,000 more a year than he should be.” Read more about Ed Butowsky on Chapwood Investments. via Blogger http://crystaltrapper.blogspot.com/2017/11/ed-butowsky.html

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New Post has been published on The Hagmann Report

New Post has been published on https://www.hagmannreport.com/from-the-wires/there-are-a-lot-of-holes-in-the-lawsuit-involving-fox-news-seth-rich-and-donald-trump/

There Are A LOT Of Holes In The Lawsuit Involving Fox News, Seth Rich, And Donald Trump

The key claim in a lawsuit filed by television commentator Rod Wheeler Tuesday against Fox News and a Republican donor is contradicted by a public statement made by Wheeler. The thrust of Wheeler’s lawsuit rests on the idea that Fox News falsely said that he believed there was a connection...

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In this video, Ed Butowsky explains the debt ceiling conundrum and what it means to you and your investments. This video is short and sweet and gets straight to what you need to know.

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Ed Butowsky founder of Chapwood Investments

Ed Butowsky, managing partner of Chapwood Investments, LLC has the unique intelligence to recognize how current situations affect investment portfolios. An internationally recognized specialist in the investment wealth management and personal finance market, he was featured in "Broke," the critically acclaimed ESPN "30 for 30" documentary that chronicles professional athletes and their financial experiences, and in the most well-known Sports Illustrated article ever: "How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke." Athletes and celebrities count on Ed Butowsky to deliver guidance on everything from contract arrangements and agent disputes to family investments and how individuals with money can take steps to manage to keep it.

Ed Butowsky is a coach to up-and-coming professional athletes and their parents, but it isn't only public figures who desire his guidance. Private mens and women come to him seeking new methods for their financial concerns. Ed is best known for his talk and his determination to roll up his sleeves and find strategies to issues that others want to have no part of. His more than 29 years in the financial services industry started at Morgan Stanley, where he was a senior vice president in private wealth management. In his 18 years there, he was the firm's top producer nationally as well as the first consultant to top $1 billion in assets under management. He was identified as a registered member of both the Chairman's Club and the Equity Club, distinctions reserved for exclusively the best advisers at Morgan Stanley. Ed Butowsky has appeared on The Blaze TV and is a Blaze Branded Contributor for The Blaze online. At the same time, he is an op-ed contributor who has written articles relating to financial topics for National Center for Policy Analysis, FoxBusiness.com, FoxNews.com, Breitbart.com and others. He was a keynote speaker at the American Bar Association Bankruptcy Division and was featured in the PBS Frontline interview "To Catch a Trader."

Ed Butowsky regularly talks about wealth management and other timely subjects related to finance and investment on radio shows around the country, including "Mad Dog Radio" and "Bloomberg Radio." He was featured as one of seven financial coaches/experts in the first-of-its-kind online reality series, "The Invested Life," a nine-month series that featured real people facing common investment concerns and their journey to take control of their finances. (www.theinvestedlife.msn.com). Ed has been the keynote speaker at the IMCA Winter Conference, taught at the Private Wealth Texas Forum, T3 Conference, Yale University, NYU Stern School of Business, and SMU Cox School of Business and chats around the country to economic advisors on how to correctly handle portfolios. Butowsky is also the architect of the CHIP score. The CHIP score is the primary measurement created to properly and effectively score a portfolio and examine's strength based on all aspects that attribute to portfolio effectiveness; rate of return, threat, rising cost of living, taxes, management expenses and financial investment fees. Ed Butowsky is the creator of the Chapwood Index, a real cost of living index which tries to show, on a regular basis, a more specific figure for cost of living increases in the nation's top 50 major metropolitan areas. (www.chapwoodindex.com). In 2005, Ed launched Chapwood Investments, LLC, a private wealth management advisory firm that focuses on providing extensive financial counseling and investment advice to wealthy groups and professionals. Under the management of Ed Butowsky and his business partner, Kim Sams, Chapwood Investments was awarded the 2015 Alternative Investment Award for Excellence in Investment Wealth Management - USA. Ed Butowsky is an experienced speaker on a wide range of financial investment topics. For more information or to book Ed Butowsky with regard to a speaking engagement, get in touch with Mikaila Montgomery at Chapwood Investments, LLC, at 972-865-2228.

Ed Butowsky Links:

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via Blogger http://brigittetwisss.blogspot.com/2017/10/ed-butowsky-founder-of-chapwood.html

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Seth Rich Investigator Accusations Debunked By Own Interviews As Seymour Hersh Leak Kills Russia Story

http://uniteordiemedia.com/seth-rich-investigator-accusations-debunked-by-own-interviews-as-seymour-hersh-leak-kills-russia-story/ http://uniteordiemedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/RIP-Seth-600x389.gif Seth Rich Investigator Accusations Debunked By Own Interviews As Seymour Hersh Leak Kills Russia Story Oh, and there’s an Awan Connection… Yesterday, a private investigator in the Seth Rich murder case hired by the family of the slain DNC staffer filed a lawsuit against Fox5 news and GOP financier Ed Butowsky for misrepresenting statements he made in order to”shift the blame from...

Oh, and there’s an Awan Connection…

Yesterday, a private investigator in the Seth Rich murder case hired by the family of the slain DNC staffer filed a lawsuit against Fox5 news and GOP financier Ed Butowsky for misrepresenting statements he made in order to”shift the blame from Russia and help put to bed speculation that President Trump colluded with Russia…” because “that is the way the President wanted the article,” the suit alleges.

  The plaintiff, former D.C. Police detective Rod Wheeler, also asserts that the Trump administration was directly involved with the story. Butowsky, who paid for Wheeler’s investigation on behalf of the Rich family, arranged a sit-down meeting with former Press Secretary Sean Spicer to brief him on Wheeler’s findings. While Spicer acknowledges the meeting, he told NPR that he only agreed to it as a favor, and he wasn’t aware of any Trump involvement in the Fox5 article.

Butowsky later boasted to Wheeler that President Trump had personally reviewed the Fox story prior to publication – a statement he now says was a joke.

Read More: www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-02/seth-rich-investigator-accusations-debunked-own-interviews-seymour-hersh-leak-kills-

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Trump has more Smoking Guns than the NRA!

Trump’s propaganda station, Fox News, outed as being complicit in influencing the election #RussiaCollusion and #RussiaCoverUp. If Sean Spicer, Ed Butowsky or Fox confirms Trump’s involvement, Trump is toast. #ItsMuellerTime

The rigging of the 2016 election is going to make Watergate look like child's play!

The NPR broke the story and has all of the details. Mueller protect Rod Wheeler.

The story, the lawsuit said, was part of an attempt to discredit the US intelligence community's determination that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee and obtained a trove of emails released by Wikileaks.

For months, right-wing conspiracy theorists had floated unproven theories that Rich was the person who provided Wikileaks with the DNC emails, and suggested his death was retribution for his supposed leak. No real evidence was ever provided to support such claims.

"A couple minutes ago I got a note that we have the full, uh, attention of the White House on this. And, tomorrow, let's close this deal, whatever we've got to do. But you can feel free to say that the White House is onto this now."

Trump, not good

In addition to noting Spicer met with Butowsky and Wheeler, it included a text message from Butowsky to Wheeler which said, "Not to add any more pressure but the president just read the article. He wants the article out immediately. It's now all up to you. But don't feel the pressure."

Oh Oh!

When Wheeler called Butowsky after Fox News published its story and "demanded an explanation for the false statements" attributed to him, the lawsuit said, Butowsky told him the quotes were included because it was the way Trump wanted the article.

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Lawsuit outs Ellen Ratner as source for Seth Rich information

Fox News news analyst Ellen Ratner relayed information from Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Texas businessman Ed Butowsky regarding Seth Rich’s role in transferring emails to Wikileaks, according to an amended lawsuit that I filed this morning on behalf of Mr. Butowsky.

Ellen Rattner [sic], a news analyst for Fox News and the White House correspondent for Talk Media News, contacted him in the Fall of 2016 about a meeting she had with Mr. Assange. Ms. Rattner’s brother, the late Michael Rattner, was an attorney who had represented Mr. Assange.

According to Ms. Rattner, she made a stop in London during a return flight from Berlin, and she met with Mr. Assange for approximately six hours in the Ecuadorean embassy. Ms. Rattner said Mr. Assange told her that Seth Rich and his brother, Aaron, were responsible for releasing the DNC emails to Wikileaks.

Ms. Rattner said Mr. Assange wanted the information relayed to Seth’s parents, as it might explain the motive for Seth’s murder.

Source

If this is true, this is huge.

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Lawsuit Claims Julian Assange Confirmed DNC Emails Received From Seth Rich – Not a Russian Hack… | The Last Refuge A rather stunning report from Gateway Pundit outlines information contained within a lawsuit filing.  The lawsuit, filed by Businessman Ed Butowsky, alleges Wikileaks founder Julian Assange confirmed to Fox News analyst Ellen Ratner that the DNC leaked emails were received from Seth Rich and his brother Aaron.The details contained within the lawsuit filing…