On Monday April 20, 2009 Deng Yonggu, 33, a forestry officer in Gaosheng town in Pengxi county of Suining City, Sichuan Province went on trial for the crime of slander.
Robert Fiske found the contacts between the White House and the Treasury Department to be legal, but that didn't stop the smearing of Nussbaum and Altman.
But when Serbia did not provide any evidence against them, they were released. Montenegrin officials say they are the victims of a Serbian smear campaign.
They frequently harass their victims by contacting their friends, colleagues, online contacts, etc., to either defame them or to gain pertinent information about their personal and professional lives.