An undercover sting by James O’Keefe’s Citizen Journalism Foundation ended with Fox News Media cutting loose a senior FOX Weather executive after he was caught on hidden camera boasting about expense-account spending.
Jason Hermes, FOX Weather’s vice president of content sales and partnerships, was recorded claiming he could run up a massive tab at a strip club using a corporate card and get the company to reimburse it.
“You could take this (Fox corporate credit card), walk into a strip club, literally, and spend $4,000, go into your corporate manager and they would sign it and pay it off,” Hermes told the undercover investigator. “And we’d be like, ‘Well, that’s what the client wanted.’”
Hermes also described the perks of his role in unusually blunt terms, according to the video.
“It’s the best job, because I’m a celebrity around all of it, but no one knows me,” Hermes later added. “It’s like winning the lottery.”
CAUGHT ON HIDDEN CAMERA: Fox News Media VP Jason Hermes Brags About Charging ‘$4,000 Strip Club Bills’ to Fox Corporate Cards, Admits to a Stranger, “We Would Just…Lie on the [Fox] Expense Reports—No One’s Gonna F***ing Say a Word to Me,” in Direct Violation of Fox Corporate’s… pic.twitter.com/NwKIzO6pnX
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 28, 2026
The footage spread quickly online and racked up millions of views, prompting Fox News to respond publicly and move to terminate Hermes.
“Jason Hermes has been terminated,” a company statement said. “The comments he made during a personal outing grossly misrepresented his position at FOX Weather and within the larger company.
“Expense reports are subject to a sophisticated review and auditing process, and his wildly bizarre claims were immediately investigated, which we are in the process of finishing,” the statement continues. “We have found no evidence whatsoever that they are true.”
The episode is the latest example of an O’Keefe-style undercover operation setting off a corporate firestorm, with Fox insisting the executive’s talk did not match reality and that internal controls would have prevented the behavior he described.
Barrett Media, which covers the media industry, reported the firing and noted it publishes daily content focused on music, news and sports media.
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