Former CNN host Chris Cuomo files suit against his former network, alleging corruption at the progressive network.
QUICK FACTS:
- Chris Cuomo, a former anchor at CNN, has filed suit alleging corruption and unlawful termination against the network, according to Breitbart News.
- The former anchor claims that the termination of his contract was due to false claims that he violated CNN’s standards by assisting his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, during his sexual harrasment scandal.
- Cuomo is pushing for lost wages under his contract as well as future salary lost due to CNN’s “efforts to destroy his reputation.”
- The suit also claims that CNN “selectively” enforces its ethics policies, citing a former CNN executive’s recently revealed affair.
- Cuomo’s suit asserts that as long as the actions won’t impact CNN’s rating, the network would turn a blind eye.
- Cuomo specifically called out “major transgressions” by “CNN personalities such as Don Lemon and Jake Tapper,” indicating that these two were also involved in “blatant misconduct” without being punished.
ACCUSATIONS AGAINST OTHER CNN HOSTS:
- Cuomo’s filing called out Lemon for warning “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett that the Chicago police didn’t believe his accusations about a hate crime, according to Business Insider.
- CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter was mentioned a dozen times as someone who was on a mission to smear him, according to Newsbusters.
- “Brian Stelter, reported that internal CNN sources said Cuomo was ‘trying to burn the place down,’” the filing noted. “Stelter also stated on CNN that Cuomo ‘was not going out quietly,’ suggesting Cuomo would seek vengeance for his termination.”
- As for Tapper, Cuomo’s suit asserts that the CNN host was guilty of giving “advice in a phone call, text messages, and direct Twitter messages” to Republican Congressional candidate Sean Parnell about not running against Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Conor Lamb, according to The Daily Caller.
BACKGROUND:
- According to the filing, Cuomo claims that his “journalistic integrity” was “unjustifiably smeared” by his former network.
- Cuomo also says that these smears are “making it difficult if not impossible” for him “to find similar work in the future and damaging him in amounts exceeding $125 million.”
- The suit asserts that “not only did Zucker and CNN fail to instruct CNN employees not to disparage Cuomo, as required by the agreement, but they themselves openly disparaged Cuomo in violation of the Agreement, with Zucker leading the charge.”
