Former Fox Information host Ed Henry has been accused of sexual assault and harassment of one other feminine colleague.
RadarOnline.com can reveal a courtroom submitting from former Fox Information government producer Jennifer Eckhart unearthed contemporary accusations of sexual assault and harassment towards Henry.
Eckhart sued Henry in 2020 and accused him of raping her in 2017. Whereas Henry vehemently denied her accusations, Fox Information fired him upon studying of Eckhart’s claims.
After Henry was fired, Fox Information stated in an announcement: “Upon first studying of Jennifer Eckhart’s allegations in 2020, Fox Information promptly performed an investigation by an out of doors unbiased regulation agency, which resulted in senior administration and HR terminating Ed Henry inside six days.”
On Wednesday, Eckhart’s lawyer, Michael J. Willemin, filed a 39-page movement opposing Fox Information’ movement for abstract judgement which included bombshell new claims alleging Henry assaulted one other feminine colleague whereas employed on the community – and additional claimed a number of staffers raised considerations about Henry’s conduct to bosses.
The movement moreover claimed there have been different situations of sexual misconduct and harassment from different male colleagues who have been stated to be nonetheless employed at Fox Information, in line with Mediaite.
Fox Information repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and insisted Eckhart “didn’t inform anybody about her sexual encounters with Henry” and “didn’t increase any complaints about sexual harassment or retaliation till after her termination from” the community.
Eckhart beforehand admitted she didn’t inform anybody about her encounters with Henry till after she was fired in 2020.
Fox Information launched an announcement in response to Eckhart’s newest submitting: “After having missed their deadline for submitting, the legal professionals for Ms. Eckhart at the moment are desperately making an attempt to salvage their case.
“As discovery on this matter has confirmed, FOX Information was not conscious of any relationship between Ms. Eckhart and Mr. Henry or of any allegations of unwelcome sexual exercise by Mr. Henry till after she left the corporate.”
Eckhart’s lawyer argued regardless of the community’s continued denial of duty, they “knew” Henry posed a “vital threat” based mostly on his previous conduct and sexual misconduct allegations, and “failed to research” these claims in 2017.
Willemin additional accused Fox Information of making a “secure haven for males who have interaction in sexual harassment and assault”.
Eckhart’s lawyer famous Henry’s previous conduct included an “affair” he had in 2016 with a Las Vegas stripper, which led to community to droop him with pay and ordered him to hunt therapy for intercourse dependancy.
However Willemin added Henry’s conduct was not restricted to “a single consensual affair” and as a substitute a sample of “office sexual misconduct”, which included utilizing a community telephone to have interaction in “a ‘sexting incident’ that the ‘DC Bureau helped Ed cowl up,’ earlier than Fox Information realized about Mr. Henry’s affair with a stripper” and a “sexual relationship” with one other colleague.
The movement said: “This sexual relationship, which concerned an identical and extreme imbalance of energy, started in November 2016, after Mr. Henry returned from suspension, and pre-dating the February 2017 rape involving Ms. Eckhart.