Abby Grossberg, the Fox News producer who was fired last week after filing suit against the network, added new details to her allegations that she was coerced by Fox News’ legal team into giv…
), filed in New York federal court and Delaware Superior Court on Monday, Grossberg’s attorneys alleged that the network, in firing her, “hammered the final nail into the coffin of Ms. Grossberg’s once-promising career in television journalism by publicly terminating her employment for allegedly being insubordinate for publicly disclosing the woefully inadequate and likely malicious ‘legal advice’ given to her by Fox News Attorneys prior to and during her deposition in the Dominion/Fox Lawsuit.
Her attorneys also said that Fox attorneys “made a bad faith proffer” in court last week by asserting that Grossberg was a witness under their control who they may offer to testify. In fact, Grossberg’s attorneys wrote, she “cannot be compelled to testify at the trial in the Dominion/Fox Lawsuit; she will never testify on behalf of Fox News in the trial; and she will only voluntarily testify – if at all – on behalf of Dominion.”Tucker Carlson.
But in the new complaint, Grossberg’s attorneys claimed that she would have answered differently if she had not been “conditioned and intimidated” by Fox attorneys. Her legal team said that, unlike male colleagues, she was never “instructed properly” as to her rights as a sworn witness, and “was never provided her deposition transcript to review before it was made public in the Dominion/Fox Lawsuit.
Grossberg also is seeking to revise her deposition testimony to say that Dave Clark, an executive overseeing weekend programming, usually “steps in whenever we’ve shot and were about to air/endorse questionable content from a ‘what are their sources?’ standpoint. That did not happen with respect to Dominion related reporting which was allowed to receive significant airplay without any evidence implicating them in any way.
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