FBI releases Roger Ailes files

By Caitlin Yilek

Published January 26, 2018 8:17pm ET

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FBI releases Roger Ailes files — Roger Ailes is described as a "person of good character and a loyal American" in the documents that appear to be a background check on the former cable TV executive. (AP Photo/Jim Cooper, file) | JIM COOPER

The FBI has publicly released its files on former Fox News executive Roger Ailes, who died in May at age 77.

The FBI created the 114-page file on Ailes before he worked for President Richard Nixon.

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