Courthouse News Service: Claiming the statute of limitations has long run out, the owner of the Denver Post asked a Boulder judge on Wednesday to toss a consumer protection lawsuit filed by a man who has long disputed the paper’s 2017 reporting on him.

The Denver Post published a series of articles in 2017, reporting financial mismanagement at the nonprofit Humanwire, owned by entrepreneur Andrew Baron.

Following the reporting, the 20th Judicial District Attorney’s Office charged Baron with charity fraud, to which he eventually pleaded no contest. In 2018, a Boulder judge sentenced Baron to a one-year deferred sentence and ordered him to pay restitution. To this day, Baron denies wrongdoing and has long sought a correction from the newspaper, even posting his own version of the story on his blog Dembot.

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