Chris Cuomo was accused of harassment days before CNN firing

NEW YORK – A caller allegation of intersexual harassment against Chris Cuomo emerged conscionable days earlier CNN announced it was firing the anchor amid an probe into enactment helium did defending his member from akin harassment allegations.

Attorney Debra Katz said Sunday her lawsuit was the unfortunate of “serious intersexual misconduct” by Cuomo and that she had contacted CNN astir the woman’s allegations connected Wednesday.

CNN suspended Cuomo earlier this week aft details emerged astir however helium assisted his brother, erstwhile New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, arsenic the person faced intersexual harassment allegations. When it announced Network officials said “additional accusation has travel to light" erstwhile it announced Chris Cuomo's firing, but did not elaborate.

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Katz said the accuser decided to travel guardant came aft the New York lawyer general's bureau released grounds showing Cuomo had taken a overmuch much progressive relation than antecedently thought successful strategizing and helping to trade a effect to the allegations his member was facing. When the archetypal allegations surfaced against Andrew Cuomo, Chris Cuomo had told viewers helium had "always cared precise profoundly astir these issues,” Katz said.

“Hearing the hypocrisy of Chris Cuomo’s on-air words and disgusted by his efforts to effort to discredit these women, my lawsuit retained counsel to study his superior intersexual misconduct against her to CNN,” Katz said successful the statement.

CNN was reviewing Chris Cuomo's behaviour pursuing the caller information, and a instrumentality steadfast hired to assistance had recommended the web terminate Chris Cuomo.

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“It goes without saying that these decisions are not easy, and determination are a batch of analyzable factors involved,” CNN main Jeff Zucker wrote successful an email to CNN unit connected Saturday.

Cuomo issued a connection connected Twitter calling the determination disappointing.

“This is not however I privation my clip astatine CNN to extremity but I person already told you wherefore and however I helped my brother. So fto maine present accidental arsenic disappointing arsenic this is, I could not beryllium much arrogant of the squad astatine Cuomo Prime Time and the enactment we did,” helium said.

The caller misconduct allegation comes aft a seasoned TV executive, Shelley Ross, wrote a file for The New York Times successful September saying Chris Cuomo had groped her astatine a enactment 16 years ago, erstwhile they some worked for ABC News. Cuomo told the paper that “I apologized to her then, and I meant it.”

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