An undercover investigation from James O’Keefe’s Citizen Journalism Foundation has led to the firing of a FOX Weather executive.
FOX Weather Vice President of Content Sales and Partnerships Jason Hermes was seen on a hidden camera stating that he could spend thousands at a strip club and be reimbursed by Fox News Media.
“You could take this (Fox corporate credit card), walk into a strip club, literally, and spend $4,000, go into your corporate manager and they would sign it and pay it off,” Hermes told the undercover investigator. “And we’d be like, ‘Well, that’s what the client wanted.'”
“It’s the best job, because I’m a celebrity around all of it, but no one knows me,” Hermes later added. “It’s like winning the lottery.”
After the video went viral on social media, garnering millions of views, Fox News responded to O’Keefe. It stated that Hermes has been fired and that it has found no instance of Hermes’ statements being corroborated.
“Jason Hermes has been terminated,” the statement reads. “The comments he made during a personal outing grossly misrepresented his position at FOX Weather and within the larger company.
“Expense reports are subject to a sophisticated review and auditing process, and his wildly bizarre claims were immediately investigated, which we are in the process of finishing,” the statement continues. “We have found no evidence whatsoever that they are true.”
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