Report: Ailes Told Regan to Lie About Kerik

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Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes was the executive who advised former HarperCollins publisher Judith Regan to lie to investigators in 2004 about her affair with Bernard Kerik, the now-disgraced former New York City police commissioner, the New York Times reported Thursday.
 
According to the report, documents filed in New York State Supreme Court and left temporarily—and accidentally—unsealed reveal Regan’s charge that Ailes told her not to discuss the affair in a bid to protect his close friend Rudy Giuliani, as the former mayor and Kerik mentor weighed a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

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