The previous cable information anchor Chris Cuomo is looking for $125 million from CNN for what his attorneys declare was wrongful termination when the cable information community fired him in December.
In a authorized submitting on Wednesday with JAMS, an arbitration group, Mr. Cuomo’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, mentioned he was looking for the $15 million that Mr. Cuomo was owed below his contract in addition to “future wages misplaced because of CNN’s efforts to destroy his fame.”
Mr. Cuomo was fired days after the New York lawyer common launched a trove of emails and textual content messages that indicated he had been intimately concerned with offering strategic recommendation to his brother, Andrew M. Cuomo, who was confronting a mounting sexual harassment scandal whereas serving as governor of New York.
Mr. Cuomo was fired by Jeff Zucker, CNN’s president on the time. Mr. Cuomo has maintained that Mr. Zucker was conscious of his dealings together with his brother, an accusation that Mr. Zucker has denied.
An inner investigation into Mr. Cuomo commissioned by WarnerMedia, CNN’s guardian firm, quickly imperiled Mr. Zucker as effectively. Mr. Zucker resigned below strain in early February after the investigation revealed that he had did not disclose a romantic relationship with the community’s head of selling and communications, Allison Gollust. WarnerMedia would later say that “the investigation discovered violations of firm insurance policies, together with CNN’s information requirements and practices, by Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust and Chris Cuomo.” Mr. Zucker and Ms. Gollust have denied that.
Mr. Freedman, Mr. Cuomo’s lawyer, mentioned on Wednesday that it “ought to by now be apparent that Chris Cuomo didn’t misinform CNN about serving to his brother.”
“In actual fact, because the restricted info launched from WarnerMedia’s investigation makes clear, CNN’s highest-level executives not solely knew about Chris’s involvement in serving to his brother but in addition actively assisted the governor, each by means of Chris and instantly themselves,” Mr. Freedman continued.
A CNN spokesman declined to remark. Deadline reported Mr. Cuomo’s authorized submitting earlier on Wednesday.
