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DENVER (CN) — A Denver-based conservative radio host settled defamation claims Tuesday filed by a former Dominion Voting Systems employee dragged into the center of 2020 election fraud conspiracies.
“Plaintiff Eric Coomer, Ph.D., defendant Salem Media of Colorado Inc. and defendant Randy Corporon have fully and finally settled the disputes among them concerning plaintiff’s claims against the defendants, with each party to pay his or its own attorney’s fees, costs and expenses," the parties’ attorneys wrote in a joint stipulation for dismissal with prejudice filed June 8.
On Tuesday, Second Judicial District Judge Heidi Kutcher approved the request with a single page stating “action taken.”
Following the 2020 election, conservative radio host and attorney Randy Corporon interviewed Joseph Oltmann, a local businessman who claimed he heard a man identified as “Eric from Dominion” say on a call that he was going to make sure President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
Internet research led Oltmann to conclude the speaker was Eric Coomer, a director of product strategy and security at Dominion Voting Systems in Denver.
The claim sparked and spread like wildfire after the 2020 election, as it was picked up by the OAN network then repeated by the Trump campaign — along with Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell.
After suing the Trump campaign in 2020, Coomer sued Corporon in 2021 and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell in 2022 over their roles in pulling him into the election fraud narrative. In June, a federal jury awarded Coomer a $2.3 million judgment against Lindell, but dismissed claims against MyPillow.
In 2023, a Denver judge denied Corporon’s anti-SLAPP special motion to dismiss the suit. Enacted in 2019, the anti-Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation law seeks to block frivolous lawsuits to “safeguard the constitutional rights of persons to petition, speak freely, associate freely, and otherwise participate in government to the maximum extent permitted by law.”
The Colorado Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s decision to keep the lawsuit in play.
Coomer’s attorney, Charles Cain of the Salida, Colorado, firm Cain & Skarnulis, and Corporon’s attorney John Zakhem at the Denver firm Campbell Killin did not respond to requests for comment by press time.
On July 10, variety show vlogger Eric Metaxas also filed to settle Coomer’s 2020 lawsuit against him, a request which is awaiting approval from Second Judicial District Judge Jon Olafson.
Melissa Weise at Gordon Rees defended Salem Media and Eric Metaxas in separate lawsuits filed by Coomer which reached settlements this month. Weise declined to speak with Courthouse News.
A licensed attorney, Corporon is representing vlogger Gateway Pundit owner James Hoft against Coomer’s 2020 defamation claims, which are scheduled to go to trial in April.
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