Former NJ State Rep.: OReilly Harassed my Ex, Asked for Dirt Against Other Accusers
Source: Mediaite
A former Democratic representative for the New Jersey State Assembly wrote a lengthy Facebook post on Tuesday, where he spoke of an ex-girlfriend who was victimized by Bill O’Reilly and pressured into silence by Fox News’ leadership.
Investment manager Michael Panter got on board with the #MeToo movement this week when he wrote about an unnamed ex-girlfriend who would vent to him about her frustrations with O’Reilly when she worked at Fox News. Panter wrote that O’Reilly would try secretly asking her out and would call her late at night, which would “create tension and make her clearly uncomfortable.”
“I believe she later said in her suit that she believed he was masturbating,” Panter said of the late night calls.
Eventually, Panter described an instance of his ex-girlfriend (who signed a non-disclosure agreement) receiving calls from then Fox News co-president Bill Shine, Fox HR and O’Reilly in order to discuss a “sensitive” matter:
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Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/former-nj-state-rep-oreilly-harassed-my-ex-girlfriend-asked-her-for-dirt-against-other-accusers/
The "sensitive matter" was that someone else was suing O'Reilly for sexual harassment, and O'Reilly (and apparently Bill Shine and the Human Resources department at Fox) wanted Panter's ex-girlfiriend, who lived in the same apartment complex as O'Reilly's accuser, to give them any dirt she had on that other woman, to discredit her.
Panter's Facebook post:
https://www.facebook.com/michaelpanter/posts/10155995603775312
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