Washington — A former Fox News producer who filed a pair of lawsuits against the network is leveling new accusations against it: she claims she was unlawfully fired as an act of retaliation and received "impermissible coaching and coercion" by Fox News attorneys before she provided deposition testimony as part of a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit filed against the company.
In amended filings in the lawsuits submitted in federal court in New York and Delaware state court, Abby Grossberg further detailed allegations of discrimination, harassment and retaliation by Fox News against female employees, capped by her firing on March 24.
Grossberg, who worked on Maria Bartiromo's Sunday morning show on Fox Business Network and then on Tucker Carlson's nightly primetime broadcast on Fox News Channel, also included corrections to her Sept. 14 deposition as part of Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against Fox.
Grossberg claimed that she did not receive a copy of her deposition transcript until early March, although she had requested it at least six times and then was given days to submit an errata sheet, which lists a witness's changes to his or her testimony. The truncated timeline denied "her sufficient time to review the transcript as she was entitled to 30 days to review under" state rules, her lawyers wrote in the latest filing in Delaware Superior Court.
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