On Thursday, Fox News reportedly ousted Bo Dietl, an on-air personality who has recently been accused of doing private investigative work for former Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes. Dietl’s departure was reported by Gabriel Sherman, a New York Magazine reporter and author of Ailes biography The Loudest Voice in the Room.
Sources at Fox News say that Bo Dietl, who did PI work for Ailes, has been cut as a contributor from the channel
— Gabriel Sherman (@gabrielsherman) August 18, 2016
Sherman has previously reported that Ailes used Fox News’ money to hire private detectives and other operatives to generate smear campaigns against his enemies and spy on reporters. Sherman accused Dietl, who was a New York city cop before he started working for Ailes, of overseeing a group of private investigators that the Fox News boss had instructed to tail Sherman and his wife.
Dietl told the Daily Beast that Sherman’s reports are completely untrue. “All that black-ops on the 14th floor crap … it’s all bullsh*t,” he said.
Dietl is considering legal action against Sherman and New York magazine. “I’m talking to my attorneys about a defamation suit and a libel suit, [especially] if I don’t go back on Fox News,” he said. “I want a retraction … Lanny Davis, one of my attorneys, told me to ask for a retraction, and said that if they don’t give me one, we could do a suit against New York magazine and Sherman … I guarantee you, I got a really good case. I mean, his source is a liar.”
(Via New York Daily News & The Daily Beast)