Judith Regan says NewsCorp asked her to lie - to protect Rudy Giuliani
All the sleaze - told by some of
the participants. This could make a terrible movie.
Judith Regan, the former book publisher, says in a lawsuit…protesting her dismissal by the News Corporation, the media conglomerate, that a senior executive there encouraged her to lie to federal investigators about her past affair with Bernard B. Kerik after he had been nominated to become homeland security secretary in late 2004.
Ms. Regan says in the suit, though, that when she realized the company had been assembling material with which to justify firing her she called a company lawyer. She says she wanted to confirm that accusations she had made about executives’ creating a hostile workplace had been included in her personnel file. One of those accusations was that an executive had advised her to lie about Mr. Kerik to protect Mr. Giuliani.
“This smear campaign was necessary to advance News Corp.’s political agenda, which has long centered on protecting Rudy Giuliani’s presidential ambitions,” the court papers say.
Don’t you just love it when soap opera politics go public?
Posted: Wed - November 14, 2007 at 10:12 AM