More than 24 hours after the New York attorney general’s office released a trove of documents from the sexual misconduct investigation of disgraced former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and exposed how his brother, CNN host Chris Cuomo As a journalist, he abused his resourcesCNN finally reprimanded him for his family’s benefit and pulled the plug. According toTuesday’s report The New York Times.
“The star CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was suspended indefinitely by the network on Tuesday in the wake of new details about his efforts to assist his brother, Andrew M. Cuomo, the former governor of New York, amid a cascade of sexual harassment accusations that led to the governor’s resignation,” wrote Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin.
As NewsBusters has previously reported back in August, Chris had lied to his viewers about his role in crafting his brother’s public responses to the allegations against him. “I am not an adviser,” he said at the time. “It wasn’t my responsibility to make decisions. I was just there to hear and give my opinion. My advice to my brother was clear and consistent..”
At the time, we knew he was not just “there to listen” as e-mails proved he was drafting up public statements for his brother. We now see that he is working with Melissa DeRosa, his top aide, as a result of Monday’s release of additional investigative documents.
“Please let me help with the prep,” he told her in a text message. Later adding: “You need to trust me” when things were unraveling. He even was leaning on his sources to get dirt on at least one of his brother’s accusers and to probe rival outlets to see what stories they were writing about Andrew’s accusers.
Chris was not only lying to Andrew’s viewers, but he also kept CNN guessing.
“When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother’s staff, he broke our rules and we acknowledged that publicly,” the network said in a statement put out by media journalist, Cuomo apologist and company man Brian Stelter. “However, these documents point to a greater level of involvement in his brother’s efforts than we previously knew.”
CNN believed it would let go of the network, as they had back in August. His show was even broadcast as usual on Monday. So, perhaps his status as CNN poster boy wasn’t enough to save his job.
Chris was seemingly hanging on to his job by a thread. “As a result, we have suspended Chris indefinitely, pending further evaluation,” the network concluded. Jeffrey Toobin was finally returned by the network.
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