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Ailes denies $2 million hostage payment

Fox News boss Roger Ailes (left) is denying a report by World Net Daily that his network paid $2 million ransom to gain the freedom of two FNC employees, Olaf Wiig and former Bay Area journalist Steve Centanni. In an internal memo leaked to Drudge, Roger Ailes says: “I just saw an article on the internet from WorldNetDaily.com by Aaron Klein which claims we paid $2 million in hostage money during the Centanni & Wiig kidnapping crisis. The story is absolutely 100% false. Not a cent of hostage money was paid, and it was never considered.”

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