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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 secretary of Homeland Security 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. Affidavits filed in a separate lawsuit reveal the identity of the previously unnamed executive to be Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News. |
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Hmmmmmm.
by GLloyd Rowsey on Friday, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:08:05 AM
Did Ailes expect to derive an advantage from that lie...
by John Sanchez Jr. on Friday, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:59:10 AM