Jack Hanick, a onetime producer at Fox News, has been indicted on charges of working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch to establish TV networks in Russia and in other European countries.
Hanick, 71, is accused of working for Konstantin Malofeyev, who since 2014 has been under U.S. sanctions that were imposed in response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. The Department of Justice announced on Thursday that it had unsealed an indictment charging Hanick with violating the sanctions and with lying to the FBI.
Hanick worked at Fox News from its founding, in 1996, through August 2011, according to his LinkedIn page. The indictment alleges that he went to work for Malofeyev in 2013, and continued to work for him until 2017.
The Treasury Department added Malofeyev to its sanctions list in December 2014, finding that he had been a key source of funding for Russian…
