According to TPM via Politico The FOX Iowa GOP debate may be canceled due to Romney bowing out. Anybody else wondering if it might have something to do with the Judith Regan Lawsuit?
Judith Regan you may remember, was Bernie Kerik's mistress.
Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik conducted two extramarital affairs simultaneously, using a secret Battery Park City apartment for the passionate liaisons, the New York Daily News has learned.
The first relationship, spanning nearly a decade, was with city Correction Officer Jeannette Pinero; the second was with famed publishing titan Judith Regan.
His affair with Regan, the stunningly attractive head of her own book publishing company, lasted for almost a year.
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The tumultuous Regan-Kerik romance carried on for months, through the writing, publication and promotion of his autobiography, "The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice," which Regan's company published.
Well this same Judith Regan is now suing her publisher Harper Collins for $100 million for defamation.
One-time book publishing powerhouse Judith Regan filed a $100 million defamation lawsuit Tuesday saying her former employers asked her to lie to federal investigators about Bernard Kerik, the former police commissioner who was once her lover, and tried to destroy her reputation.
Regan, who worked for HarperCollins Publishers LLC, said the smear campaign stems from her past intimate relationship with Kerik, who was police commissioner under former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and from the political agenda of News Corp., the parent company of HarperCollins.
Regan, 54, says in court papers that News Corp.'s political agenda centers on Giuliani's presidential ambitions. It was Giuliani, a Republican, who appointed Kerik police commissioner and recommended him to President Bush for secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Kerik had to withdraw his nomination after it was revealed he had not reported the wages he paid to a nanny.
Regan says "it is now widely accepted" that one of Giuliani's vulnerabilities is the 52-year-old Kerik. Because of Regan's affair with Kerik, court papers say, a senior News Corp. executive told her he believed she had information about Kerik that could hurt Giuliani's campaign and she should lie to federal investigators.
It doesn't take a genius to "connect the dots". FOX pressures Judith to lie to salvage Rudy's rep. News has been slowly leaking out about Guliani's favors to FOX including helping FOX get carried on Time Warner Cable.
With all this news coming to light, is it possible that Romney has taken notice and decided to back out of the debate? After all, we all know how Fox can distort coverage, maybe even Romney knows that he wouldn't get a fair shake on Fox with "America's Mayor". Just a thought.