Roger Ailes to be Indicted

Last week, the NY Times
broke the story that Roger Ailes had urged various colleagues to lie to
Federal investigators; (David Corn explains the background to this here).

NYT:

“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 two years earlier to federal investigators who were vetting Bernard
B. Kerik for the job of homeland security secretary . . .

Now, court documents filed in a lawsuit make clear whom Ms. Regan was
accusing of urging her to lie: Roger E. Ailes, the powerful chairman of
Fox News and a longtime friend of Mr. Giuliani. What is more, the
documents say that Ms. Regan taped the telephone call from Mr. Ailes in
which Mr. Ailes discussed her relationship with Mr. Kerik.”

Here’s what I learned recently: Someone I spoke with claimed that
Ailes was scheduled to speak at their event in March, but canceled. It
appears that Roger’s people, ostensibly using a clause in his contract,
said he “cannot appear for legal reasons.”

I asked “What, precisely, does that mean?”

The response: “Roger Ailes will be indicted — probably this week, maybe even Monday.”

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/02/roger-ailes-to-be-indicted/