Roger Ailes funneled millions in Fox News funds for shady firms to harass his victims: report

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/roger-ailes-funneled-millions-in-fox-news-funds-for-shady-firms-to-harass-his-victims-report/

The hits just keep on coming for former Fox News head Roger Ailes, with a report that he used Fox funds to run a “Black Room” operation at the company’s headquarters where investigators and public relations staffers investigated and plotted again the executive’s personal enemies.

According to Gabriel Sherman, writing for New York Magazine, an investigation is under way at Fox looking into how Ailes spent millions of dollars to settle sexual harassment lawsuits with virtually no oversight, which might have set off alarms.

Mixed in with those dollars were payments to private investigators — including a company owned by Fox News regular Bo Dietl — to investigate the lives of Fox employees who sued the company as well as journalists who were taking a hard look at the news network.

According to sources who spoke with Sherman, Ailes had free rein to spend part of Fox’s $1 billion in profits on whatever he wanted with no questions asked.

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