[3][4] In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he worked as a media consultant for companies and candidates in the United States and internationally, including presidential campaigns in Colombia, Guatemala and Venezuela.
[1] The Los Angeles Times reported that he was a member of the National Rifle Association of America, generally opposed to stricter gun legislation.
[7] LaCorte denied making the statement to Falzone and said he killed the story because the evidence was not there, saying, "I was the person who made the call.
I didn’t run it upstairs to Roger Ailes or others...I didn’t do it to protect Donald Trump," adding "[Falzone] had put up a story that just wasn’t anywhere close to being something I was comfortable publishing” and pointed out numerous ways in which Falzone's article failed to meet journalistic standards of verification.
LaCorte's ownership of the sites was not known until the Times investigation, which was jointly conducted with the Virginia security firm Nisos.
[2] The investigation found no ties between LaCorte and Russia, and stated: "Security experts said the adoption of Russian tactics by profit-motivated Americans had made it much harder to track disinformation."