Posted on 03/16/2022 1:01:40 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is seeking a $125 million arbitration award, claiming the network wrongly terminated him, the TV host's legal team said Wednesday.
Cuomo was let go after it emerged that he played an active role in advising his brother, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, when the latter was fighting to stay in office as women accused him of sexual harassment.
"It should, by now, be obvious to everyone that Chris Cuomo did not lie to CNN about helping his brother," Chris Cuomo's attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement.
"In fact, as the limited information released from WarnerMedia’s investigation makes clear, CNN’s highest-level executives not only knew about Chris’s involvement in helping his brother but also actively assisted the Governor, both through Chris and directly themselves."
During early days of the pandemic in 2020, Gov. Cuomo was a frequent on-air guest of his brother's and Freedman said that cozy relationship clearly had the blessing of CNN.
"As CNN has admitted, network standards were changed in a calculated decision to boost ratings. When those practices were called into question, Chris was made the scapegoat," according to Freedman.
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Chris Cuomo is making a play for hush money. He believes he can do irreparable damage to the CNN brand. And maybe he can? Depends on what the new ownership at CNN believes. This is basically legal extortion.
May he and his killer bro win and then break CNN financially!
CNN can use 125 million to cause a lot of damage. Cuomo can use 125 million on drugs cars and self pleasure. I say that the world is better off with Cuomo having the money!
Amen!
Collectible, only in person in Moscow at high noon!
Go big or go home.
Cuomo can use 125 million on drugs cars and self pleasure.
The rest he’ll waste.
The Communist money laundry just keeps on washing.
I love a bitch fight but must humble my self to political correctness as in this day and age it is impossible to know whom is the bitch and whom is the bastard.
I love this fight between Coumo and CNN. May they both go to the death match. :)
$1.25 would be too much.
I don’t care how cnn ia destroyed just as long as it is desyroyed. Fratricide works just fine for me.
Go Cuomos, go! /schadenfreude
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