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Man City whistleblower Rui Pinto facing ‘dire consequences’ – lawyers

Computer hacker Rui Pinto, the man behind the Football Leaks website which helped trigger the Premier League probe into Manchester City's finances, faces "dire consequences" after having his protected witness status removed, his lawyers said on Friday.

— Soccer America, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

5 outlets4 languages5 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

Il Napolista

IT · IT

Followed by

4

outlets in 3 languages over 10 h 48 min.

Our read

Corroborated (4)

4 of 5 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 1 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Coverage timeline

5 outlets · first-seen order
  1. +0 min
  2. +1 h 50 min
  3. +2 h 11 min
  4. +3 h 13 min
  5. +10 h 48 min

First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.