Unbelievable Story. Fox Fires Exec Darlene Tipton over Flight 370 Charity E-Mail
I wanted to comment before the story so people would understand what's in play here. The story isn't so much that Tipton solicited donations using her company email and was fired. The real story is how this Fox nutjob was going to disperse the funds, and her own hypocrisy which became evident after she was fired. Now for the story:
NEW YORK (AP) — A veteran Fox executive who used her company email account to plan aid for loved ones of the missing Malaysian airplane's passengers has been fired.
Darlene Tipton, who was vice president of standards and practices for the Fox Cable Networks Group, said Saturday she had wanted to arrange swift financial aid to families and other loved ones, sparing them lengthy court fights. She said she began by emailing Sarah Bajc, an American whose boyfriend, Philip Wood, was a passenger on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and who has made frequent TV appearances since the plane's March 8 disappearance.
Tipton was with Fox for a quarter-century before her April 9 dismissal. She said she plans to continue with her initiative, soliciting contributions through the crowdfunding website GoFundMe.
"We want to raise money for families, to give them immediate relief," Tipton said during a phone interview from her Los Angeles home. "Otherwise, they could be in court for years."
A condition of accepting the money she hopes to raise: Recipients must waive the right to seek legal remedy.
"If they're getting money through contributions," she said, "it isn't right for them to seek money through legal channels, too."
But she plans to sue Fox for wrongful termination, said her husband, Ken Tipton, a writer and producer.
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fox! 
tragedy scam of "send money and we'll forward it to those in need and then pocketing the money" scam. I think the scam is that the Fox executive, Ms. Tipton is pretending to have this "charity" but is in fact, helping the insurance company avoid lawsuits. I believe the people will get the money donated to the cause, the question becomes "why would she make these victims sign a statement saying they won't sue if they receive this charitable aid?" Ms. Tipton states it's because they will already be getting money so they shouldn't sue and get more. Does that make sense to you?
There is something very, very wrong with this situation but I don't think it's a "scam" in the sense that she is running this charity to pocket the money. I think she opened this charity (which isn't technically a charity but a crowd-sourcing opportunity to donate money to those in need?!?) to somehow help insurance companies or someone else who has an interest in making sure these people don't sue for damages later. I can't think of any other reason she would stipulate that accepting the "donations" received through crowd-sourcing would prohibit them from suing later. It could be ideological, and her working for Fox would certainly lend that theory credibility but I don't see it. I think there's a third party in all this and we need to get to the bottom of it. If there is an insurance company interest in all this, think about how helpful it would be in awaking America to some of the creepy $hit companies will do (aided and abetted by right wing media types, no less) to make a profit.
Happy Easter btw. 
Using modern crowdfunding technologies in a twist on an age old practice, early settlement in lieu of litigation.
As a teen I was in a car wreck as a passenger, the driver, my best friend, was dead on the scene (RIP Tom).
His insurance company approached me very early with an offer to settle if I signed away rights to sue.
I turned them down, and I didn't sue.
But this is sounding a lot like that approach, except she's brokering it.
How very odd and sleazy.
