Via Illinois Senate here is the press release from Kathuria
Dr. Kathuria for U.S. Senate 2004- Press Release-October 13, 2003
MEDIA ALERT: DR. KATHURIA TO RESPOND TO MALICIOUS AND DEFAMATORY ATTACK BY RICK PEARSON AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE
Dr.Chirinjeev Kathuria, Republican candidate for the United States Senate, will respond to the front page smear piece published in the Chicago Tribune on October 11 and 12 in a press conference at 11:45 AM on Tuesday, October 14 at the Hampton Inn of Downtown Chicago at 33 W. Illinois
Dr. Kathuria will refute the charges that his resume and background have been ‘too good to be true.’ Dr. Kathuria will make key documents available to the media and the public that will prove that his resume and background are strong and completely verifiable.
Dr. Kathuria and his legal team will also present copies of the substantial lawsuit to be filed at the DuPage County Circuit Clerk’s Office Tuesday morning. Dr. Kathuria will be suing Messrs. Pearson and Zajac personally, and the Chicago Tribune corporally, for $100 million in damages resulting from the story that included malice aforethought, defamation of character, false and unsubstantiated claims, willful misleading and tortious interference with contractual relationships.
"The Chicago Tribune and its political reporters must be held accountable to write fair and balanced articles on all the candidates. We must remember it is the people of Illinois who decide who gets elected- not the reporters at the Chicago Tribune. This type of irresponsible trash reporting will never stop, unless someone takes a stand against it. I will carry this fight to save my reputation on behalf of all the people of Illinois and make politics a level playing field for all candidates. May this type of character assassination and negative and biased reporting never occur again," Kathuria said.
Dr. Kathuria graduated valedictorian in 1983 from Downers Grove North High School. He earned undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Stanford. Dr. Kathuria’s group made a $55,000 investment in The X-Stream Networks, Inc: and he became a Director and major shareholder and helped pioneer the free ISP concept. The X-Stream networks, Inc. was sold for USD 75 million in cash and stock and merged with LibertySurf. Dr. Kathuria was instrumental
in helping build MirCorp and is a former founding director. MirCorp created world history on April 4th, 2000 when the company became the world’s first company to privately launch and fund a manned space program. MirCorp helped send the first ‘citizen explorer’ to space, Dennis Tito. Dr. Kathuria?s co-authored papers include "Selectivity Heat Sensitivity of Cancer Cells", "Avascular Cartilage as an Inhibitor to Tumor Invasion,? and "Segmentation of aneurysms via connectivity from MRA brain data" the latter of which was published in the Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering in 1993.
The Chicago Tribune was well aware of all of these accomplishments, yet chose to slant the story maliciously.
The Kathuria team will also discuss several reasons, and provide corroborating material, to explain possible motivations for the publication of this story and the months of research expended in a desperate attempt to find anything negative to defame Dr. Kathuria’s good name and reputation