COVID testing company plans to sue Villanueva over China data-sharing claims – NewsBreak

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LOS ANGELES (KNX) — A COVID-19 testing firm has requested that a Los Angeles County judge allow them to conduct some discovery of Sheriff Alex Villanueva's mobile devices and to depose him on a limited basis for purposes of considering whether to sue him for defamation. Fulgent Genetics Inc. and its subsidiary, Fulgent Therapeutics LLC, alleged in a petition filed Friday in L.A. County Superior Court that Villanueva falsely claimed that the FBI warned him against using Fulgent's services because of "concerning information" that the firm might share DNA data of county employees with China. Villanueva was accused of making…