The St. Petersburg Times is being threatened with a lawsuit by Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene over this article linking him to a bad mortgage deal in California.

“I sold a building to a complete stranger — someone I have, to this day in my life, never seen, spoken to, had anything to do with,” Greene said. “To try to be connected to some crook who’s in jail is complete — it’s libelous. … So you can be sure that if they don’t print a retraction there will absolutely be a lawsuit filed.”