A Fox News executive fired earlier this year has sued 21st Century Fox, charging the network’s parent company with slander, fraud and reneging on the terms of a settlement reached in February, when he was dismissed amid a flurry of sexual harassment charges and lawsuits.
But the suit goes beyond that, alleging that Fox, analyst Tamara Holder and a reporter for The New York Times were each part of a plot designed to set him up as the “scapegoat” and to keep regulators in Great Britain from calling off the $15.4 billion purchase of the final stake in that country’s Sky Broadcasting by Fox and chief executive Rupert Murdoch.
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