CNN Fires Chris Cuomo for Helping His Brother the Governor Defend Against Sexual Harassment Accusations | Society

The television network CNN has confirmed this Saturday the dismissal of one of its star presenters, Chris Cuomo, for helping his brother Andrew defend himself against accusations of sexual harassment that cost him his resignation as governor of New York State. The chain had announced at the beginning of the week the indefinite suspension of Chris Cuomo, after revealing the day before that the presenter had participated in the design of the communication strategy to shield the governor, in free fall due to a succession of complaints from women, the majority former collaborators of yours.

The cable news network has reported that it has terminated the employment relationship with Cuomo “immediately.” The company’s move is the result of the investigation into his conduct in the months in which his brother Andrew found himself on the ropes. Chris Cuomo was suspended earlier this week pending [las conclusiones de] an additional evaluation of the new information that came to light about his participation in the defense of his brother, “explained CNN in a statement. “We hired a reputable law firm to review his paper and fired him with immediate effect. During the evaluation process, additional information has come to light. Despite the termination, we will investigate as appropriate, “added the network.

Until last month, the 51-year-old informant presented the program Cuomo Prime Time, at nine o’clock at night (local time of the east coast), and had the support of the president of the network, Jeff Zucker. With the confirmation of the dismissal, he will not face disciplinary measures for his behind-the-scenes strategy, as one more of the political advisers of the Democrat Andrew Cuomo, who incurred a clear conflict of interest for the use of confidential information and that, in short, violated ethics journalistic.

Everything precipitated for Chris Cuomo last Monday, when testimony and text messages published by the attorney general of New York revealed that the presenter had played a more committed role in the political management of his brother than the network knew. Trend for a few hours on the social network Twitter, thousands of messages that day called for the immediate resignation of Chris Cuomo while pointing to the alleged complicity of the chain, which caused notable discomfort in its leadership. As happened with the pressure exerted on his brother, the executives who previously supported him made the decision to suspend him indefinitely a day later. Former President Donald Trump, a frequent target of Chris Cuomo’s invective, celebrated his indefinite suspension from his job with joy on Tuesday.

The defenestration takes place just four months after Andrew Cuomo, 63, was forced to resign as governor, cornered by a dozen complaints of harassment, but also by another scandal related to his mandate, the makeup of the death figures from covid-19 in nursing homes. His peculiar way of deciding and managing the vaccination campaign in the State, against the opinion of the health experts who advised him, also caused friction and a string of resignations.

Unlike his older brother Chris Cuomo, visceral, provocative and somewhat telepreacher, forged a professional career away from politics, the environment in which he grew up and in which Andrew immediately began to stand out in the shadow of their father, Mario Cuomo, who was also the governor of New York. When the investigations into the alleged inappropriate behavior of his brother, a hero for the management of the pandemic that quickly turned into a plague, were made public, Chris Cuomo said on the air, in the news of the night that he presented, that from that moment he would refrain from commenting on any information regarding his brother.