Former Fox producer Abby Grossberg is alleging the network’s attorneys pressured her to portray the network in a favorable light in testimony about what happened after the 2020 election. Here, a display outside the Fox News headquarters in New York in July 2020.
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A former senior producer for Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo is offering herself as a star witness for Dominion Voting System’s $1.6 billion defamation suit against the network.
Abby Grossberg, the former producer, makes the offer in amended lawsuits filed in federal court in New York and state court in Delaware, where the Dominion case is playing out. Fox fired Grossberg last week after she sued the network for allegedly pressuring her to lie under oath and downplay claims of misogyny.
In the legal documents, Grossberg alleges that Fox attorneys “coerced, intimidated, and misinformed” her before she sat for a questioning by a Dominion attorney last September.
Should the Dominion case go before a jury next month as scheduled, the legal complaint says Grossberg “will never testify on behalf of Fox News in the trial” and “will only voluntarily testify — if at all — on behalf of Dominion.”
Dominion on Monday said it had no comment about Grossberg’s complaint.
The company is suing Fox News over lies it broadcast following the 2020 election. Fox News repeatedly had on guests who claimed, without evidence, that Dominion’s voting technology switched votes for then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden.
Grossberg had worked as a senior booking producer for Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo until last year when…
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