Posted on 02/24/2011 2:01:57 PM PST by Cardhu
It was an incendiary allegation — and a mystery of great intrigue in the media world: After the publishing powerhouse Judith Regan was fired by HarperCollins in 2006, she claimed that a senior executive at its parent company, News Corporation, had encouraged her to lie to federal investigators two years before.
The investigators had been vetting Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner who had been nominated to become homeland security secretary and who had had an affair with Ms. Regan.
The goal of the News Corporation executive, according to Ms. Regan, was to keep the affair quiet and protect the then-nascent presidential aspirations of former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Kerik’s mentor and supporter.
But Ms. Regan never revealed the identity of the executive, even as her allegation made headlines and she brought a wrongful termination suit against HarperCollins and News Corporation.
But now, affidavits filed in a separate lawsuit reveal the identity of the previously unnamed executive: Roger E. Ailes, chairman of Fox News.
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I don't think either trucker ran off ~ but yeah, that's the kind of news that will really focus your testimony~
Yeah, over 110 usually requires a special exception in other categories. ;^)
Previouslay, that same brother (of clinton sec. Betty Currie) was severely beaten just before she testified in Chinagate.
What bad luck that dude had.
Bettie ran with a bad crowd. What else could she expect!
Well.......goll-eeee if the NYT prints it, it MUST be true!
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