Ed Henry, a former anchor for America’s Newsroom who was fired from Fox News last year after the network received a sexual misconduct complaint, sued Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott on Wednesday for allegedly defaming him as a “sex criminal.”

The lawsuit, which listed Fox News Network LLC as a defendant and was filed in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, accuses Scott of using Henry as a “scapegoat to divert attention away from her own sordid history at Fox News.” Fox News responded by calling the allegations “baseless.”