Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Total411.info has exposed the media fakery techniques used by NewsCorp to attack and defame Congressman Ron Paul, who is running against Sir Rudy for the GOP Presidential nomination. So this lawsuit comes as no surprise.
From Bloomberg News Nov. 14: "Publisher Judith Regan, fired last year from News Corp.'s HarperCollins unit, claims her dismissal was part of a ``deliberate smear campaign'' aimed at protecting presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani.
Regan, former president of HarperCollins' ReganBooks division, sued her former employer for defamation in state court in New York, seeking at least $100 million in damages. She claims in her complaint that News Corp. tried to destroy her reputation because she has information about former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik that would be harmful to ex-New York Mayor Giuliani and his presidential campaign.
``The smear campaign was necessary to advance News Corp.'s political agenda, which has long centered on protecting Rudy Giuliani's presidential ambitions,'' Regan said in the complaint filed yesterday.
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Kerik, who was appointed to the post by then-New York City Mayor Giuliani, was indicted Nov. 9 by a federal grand jury on charges of tax evasion, conspiracy and lying to the White House. He pleaded guilty last year to state charges that he accepted thousands of dollars in gifts while in office.
Kerik turned down a 2004 offer by President George W. Bush to run the Homeland Security Department, a post Giuliani recommended him for, after it was disclosed that Kerik failed to pay taxes for a nanny that worked for him.
Federal prosecutors accuse Kerik of receiving cash and gifts for lobbying regulators on behalf of a New Jersey construction and waste-management firm and lying to investigators -- including those who were vetting him for the cabinet-level post on behalf of Bush -- and tried to conceal his crimes, prosecutors alleged.
Regan claims News Corp. executives attempted to ``preemptively discredit her'' to protect Giuliani and because of the ``damaging information'' they believed she possessed.
``It is now widely accepted that one of Giuliani's major political vulnerabilities is his association with Bernard Kerik,'' Regan said in her suit.
``A senior executive in the News Corp. organization told Regan that he believed she had information about Kerik that, if disclosed, would harm Giuliani's presidential campaign,'' according to the complaint. ``This executive advised Regan to lie to, and withhold information from, investigators concerning Kerik.''
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