Fox News Calls Ex-Host’s `Sockpuppet’ Harassment Suit a Hoax

May 25, 2017, 3:51 PM UTC

Fox News struck back at former host Andrea Tantaros and her lawyer, telling a judge her claims the network carried out a campaign of harassment, intimidation and electronic surveillance is “an outright hoax.”

The company asked a Manhattan federal judge May 24 to throw out Tantaros’s suit, require her to pay the network’s legal fees and refer her attorney to a lawyer disciplinary committee (Tantaros v. Fox News LLC, S.D.N.Y., No. 1:17-cv-02958, memorandum 5/24/17.

Andrea Tantaros
Photographer: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Tantaros alleged in her complaint last month that Fox News operatives broke into her personal computer, planted key-logging and other surveillance software on ...

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