The federal Fox News investigation now reportedly includes potential mail and wire fraud cases. (photo: Mary Altaffer/AP)
28 April 17
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investigators' probe into Fox News has expanded beyond questions over
its sexual harassment payouts, according to a report.
The Justice Department investigation of the
conservative news network has seen interviews being conducted with
former Fox staffers, with the Postal Inspection Service overseeing
potential mail and wire fraud cases, CNN reported Thursday.
The Daily News
first reported in February that Fox News was under “ongoing criminal
investigation” by the Justice Department, after a lawyer for former host
Andrea Tantaros said that one of his other clients had received a
subpoena.
That investigation was being led by the department’s
securities unit, attorney Judd Burstein said at the time, adding that
Fox’s failure to disclose sexual harassment payouts could violate
federal law.
Fox News confirmed in February that the company had been in communication with the U.S. attorney’s office for months.
CNN reported Thursday that federal investigators
were looking beyond the settlement payments toward consultants of Roger
Ailes, the disgraced former head of the network.
The Justice Department has not commented on the Fox investigations.
Burstein said previously that the subpoena came from the office of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who was fired by President Trump in March.
Trump's praise of Fox News has been effusive while he
lambasts other media he sees as “fake news,” leading to uncertainty
about the future of the federal investigation.
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