{"id":578572,"date":"2021-07-01T10:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578572"},"modified":"2021-07-01T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:35:51","slug":"ed-henry-sues-fox-news-ceo-alleging-cover-up-of-sexual-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ed-henry-sues-fox-news-ceo-alleging-cover-up-of-sexual-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Henry Sues Fox News CEO, Alleging Cover-Up Of Sexual Misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fed-henry-sues-fox-news-ceo-alleging-cover-up-of-sexual-misconduct%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=578572&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ed-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Fox News anchor and White House correspondent&nbsp;Ed Henry filed a defamation lawsuit against the network for statements company executives made when they fired him over allegations of sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Newark, New Jersey, accuses top network officials of issuing a statement that \u201csandbagged\u201d Henry in July of 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2021\/06\/30\/fox-news-ceo-faces-defamation-lawsuit-fired-anchor-ed-henry\/7821222002\/\">according<\/a> to USA Today. The statement said&nbsp;a former employee had&nbsp;accused Henry of sexual misconduct and he was being fired after an external investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Henry, who co-anchored \u201cAmerica\u2019s Newsroom\u201d at the time, says the misconduct allegations are false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Thursday, June 25, we received a complaint about Ed Henry from a former employee\u2019s attorney involving willful sexual misconduct in the workplace years ago,\u201d Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace, Fox News Media\u2019s president and executive editor,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/505389-ed-henry-fired-from-fox-news-after-sexual-misconduct-investigation\">said<\/a> in a memo at the time, according to The Hill. \u201cWe immediately retained an outside law firm (which has never represented Fox News in investigations or litigation) to independently investigate the claims. Ed was suspended the same day and removed from his on-air responsibilities pending investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit by Henry&nbsp;says Scott\u2019s&nbsp;statement lent&nbsp;\u201ccredence to&nbsp;the false allegations because she was trying to save her own career and&nbsp;burnish her image as a tough, no nonsense female executive who cleaned up Fox News. In&nbsp;reality, however, Ms. Scott had long been an instrument to cover up&nbsp;the existence of sexual misconduct at Fox News,\u201d&nbsp;adding she \u201chas repeatedly covered up sexual misconduct by senior&nbsp;Fox News management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Henry also says in the suit that \u201cScott had long been an instrument to cover up the existence of sexual misconduct at Fox News.\u201d The suit charges that she \u201chad such a well-known history of whitewashing actual instances of \u2018willful sexual misconduct\u2019 by Fox News employees, including a widely-known affair between a subordinate and Fox News President Jay Wallace, i.e. the same Jay Wallace who co-signed the public statement that defamed Mr. Henry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News fired back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we stated one year ago, Fox News Media conducted a thorough independent investigation into Ed Henry immediately after we were made aware of a serious misconduct claim against him by a former employee. Based on the results of those findings, we promptly terminated Mr. Henry\u2019s employment for willful sexual misconduct and stand by the decision entirely,\u201d the network said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fully prepared to vigorously defend against these baseless allegations as Mr. Henry further embarrasses himself in a lawsuit rife with inaccuracies after driving his personal life into the ground with countless extramarital affairs in a desperate attempt for relevance and redemption,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>On the allegations about Scott\u2019s role in covering up other sexual misconduct at the network, Fox said the company is proud of the work she has done to \u201ctransform the company culture, implementing annual, mandatory in-person harassment prevention training, creating an entirely new reporting structure, more than tripling the size of our HR footprint, conducting quarterly company meetings and mentoring events, as well as executing a zero tolerance policy regarding workplace misconduct for which we engage outside independent firms to handle investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Fox News anchor and White House correspondent\u00a0Ed Henry filed a defamation lawsuit against the network for statements company executives made when they fired him over allegations of sexual misconduct.The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313829,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ed-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Ed Henry Sues Fox News CEO, Alleging Cover-Up Of Sexual Misconduct","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ed-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Ed Henry Sues Fox News CEO, Alleging Cover-Up Of Sexual Misconduct","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}