Ex-Fox News Exec Argues Alleged Racist Comments Were Ripped Out of Context
Judith Slater, a former Fox News executive at the center of several lawsuits alleging rampant sexual and ethnic harassment at the top-rated cable news network, said allegedly racist comments attributed to her were taken out of context as part of "a reprehensible money grab."
June 12, 2017 at 06:46 PM
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Judith Slater, a former Fox News executive at the center of several lawsuits alleging rampant sexual and ethnic harassment at the top-rated cable news network, said allegedly racist comments attributed to her were taken out of context as part of “a reprehensible money grab.”
“Plaintiffs Tichaona Brown and Monica Douglas regularly introduced racial and ethnic topics in conversations … and joked about themselves and their cultural heritage,” Slater said in a motion filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court for Bronx County by attorney Catherine M. Foti of Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello.
The filing asked the judge to dismiss the plaintiffs' motion, filed on April 25 by attorney Douglas Wigdor on behalf of Brown and Tabrese Wright, both black women who worked in the payroll department, to add 10 plaintiffs and give the complaint class action status. It also sought the dismissal of another motion, filed in early April seeking to add Douglas to the original suit, which named parent company 21st Century Fox and Fox News as well as Slater and was filed on March 29.
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