There's a rumor going around that London-import Shahnaz Hussain, who until recently worked at the Fox Business Network, was axed from the network after complaining about being sexually and racially harassed.

So the story goes, Scott Bleier, the network's business analyst and contributor, allegedly made inappropriate comments/advances toward Hussain, which she complained about to HR and Fox's legal head, Diane Brandi, who "did nothing." A few days later, operations SVP Brian Jones showed her the door.

Other details include colleagues being told not to associate with Hussain, having their email and BlackBerrys rummaged through, and being told "to degrade her performance" and "to lie and vilify" her. FoxBusiness.com managing editor Ray Hennessey, FBN's Brian Jones, and FNC programming VP Kevin Magee spoke with Hussain's peers in recent weeks, the story goes, and told them not to have any contact with Hussain, inside or outside work.

Hussain is said to have retained an attorney for the matter, though we've also heard she's currently without counsel.

Oh, but then there's one other rumor going around: That Hussain was let go from FBN because she's simply a terrible on-air reporter, and none of those other conspiracy theories are true.

While perhaps Hussain will be the only one to know whether she suffered such treatment, we did find a couple of videos of Hussain's on-air performance when she was charged with doing local spots.

And, well, they might lend credence to the latter theory.

We wouldn't call Hussain the worst on-air talent we've ever seen, but clearly there's something not right.

Hussain was a Brian Jones hire, meanwhile, and he's acknowledged to colleagues that her hire was a mistake.

In this version of events, Hussain was responsible for doing a "limited number" of affiliate hits, but never made it on the FNC or FBN airwaves, courtesy complaining phone calls from a number of affiliates, including Detroit, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Instead, Hussain was installed at Fox Business' dot-com unit; web vids are the "lowest of the low" for talent. "She could not do live television," says one Fox insider. Even while there, her script writing was "awful."

And as for Hussain's complaints to HR and legal? False, says Fox: "Fox received no formal complaints from Hussain; she went to Brandi to discuss expense reports that had not been reimbursed but never raised any of the other issues."