Ex-News director who helped Russian Oligarch launch
propaganda arrested
Prosecutors found evidence in an unpublished memoir by John Hanick, who spent 15 years working for Rupert Murdoch
By IGOR DERYSH
PUBLISHED MARCH 7, 2022 5:30AM (EST)
The chairman of the Double-Headed Eagle Society for Russian historical education, St Basil the Great Foundation founder Konstantin Malofeyev attends an international academic conference titled "Crimea in the Life of the Romanov Dynasty. The Beginning and the End of the Reign of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia" held at the Livadia Palace. (Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)
The chairman of the Double-Headed Eagle Society for Russian historical education, St Basil the Great Foundation founder Konstantin Malofeyev attends an international academic conference titled "Crimea in the Life of the Romanov Dynasty. The Beginning and the End of the Reign of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia" held at the Livadia Palace. (Sergei MalgavkoTASS via Getty Images)
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A former Fox News director who helped a Russian oligarch launch a propaganda network was arrested last month in London on charges that he helped the oligarch dodge sanctions, according to newly unsealed court documents.
John Hanick, who worked at Fox News for 15 years, beginning when the network first launched in 1996, was charged with violating sanctions and lying to the FBI in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Hanick, who left Fox in 2011, spent four years working for sanctioned Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, who is "closely tied to Russian aggression in Ukraine," the Justice Department said in a news release.
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