By WMAL.com
The disgraced former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is seeking a $125 million arbitration award from his former network, alleging that CNN wrongly terminated him, according to NBC News reports. Cuomo was fired from CNN last year after an internal legal investigation found that he garnered information on the women accusing his brother, and former New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo of sexual misconduct.
- The lawsuit: filed against CNN on behalf Chris Cuomo alleges he was unlawfully fired, claiming he was let go based on “false claims”.
- Don Lemon called out: “As long as CNN’s ratings would not be hurt, Zucker and Gollust were more than willing to overlook major transgressions by CNN personalities such as Don Lemon and Jake Tapper, or even to engage in blatant misconduct themselves,” stated the lawsuit. “For example, in November 2021, CNN anchor Don Lemon was widely criticized for a flagrant breach of journalistic ethics when actor Jussie Smollett testified at trial that Lemon had texted him to warn him that Chicago police did not believe Smollett’s allegations of suffering a racist, homophobic attack.”
- Cuomo’s attorney: ” As a result of Turner’s indefensible choice to unceremoniously fire him, Cuomo has been damaged in countless ways. Cuomo has had his journalistic integrity unjustifiably smeared, making it difficult if not impossible for Cuomo to find similar work in the future and damaging him in amounts exceeding $125 million,” said Bryan Freedman.
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