Chris Cuomo ‘could be a d–k to ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s staff’
Ex-CNN star Chris Cuomo “could in some cases be a d–k” to staffers who were being advising his brother, Andrew Cuomo, as they grappled with the sexual harassment allegations that inevitably introduced down the former New York governor, according to a new ebook.
“I operate in the media, you don’t,” Chris Cuomo was noted to have informed his brother’s advisers final yr throughout the throes of the scandal that at last led Andrew to resign the governorship.
“I know this business enterprise, you do not,” the previous “Cuomo Key Time” host is described to have mentioned.
The promises ended up designed by Lis Smith, the Democratic Party political strategist who was element of the crew advising the then-governor.
Smith, a previous spokesperson for ex-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, is the creator of a e-book titled “Any Given Tuesday: A Political Love Story.” The guide, revealed by Harper, is due out on July 19.
Prior to she served as an informal adviser to Andrew Cuomo, Smith’s identify created headlines for her partnership with then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Chris Cuomo was fired by CNN very last year soon after it was acquired that he was part of his brother’s inner circle of advisers who had been assisting the then-governor with his communications system.
The CNN anchor’s intimate involvement in Andrew Cuomo’s arrived to gentle thanks to a report executed by New York Point out Attorney Common Letitia James.
James’ report claimed that Chris Cuomo participated in tactic classes aimed at encouraging the governor conquer the sexual harassment scandal that ultimately compelled him to resign.
Chris Cuomo himself was accused of sexual misconduct by a youthful intern at ABC Information who alleged that she was assaulted someday in 2011. Cuomo has denied the allegation.
Chris Cuomo was fired by his then-manager at CNN, network president Jeff Zucker. Months immediately after the firing, Zucker would himself move down following it was discovered that he had been carrying on a consensual partnership with his top rated promoting officer, Allison Gollust.
In an excerpt printed by Politico on Friday, Smith described how Chris Cuomo was a moderating influence on his more mature brother, who was eager to undertake a scorched earth marketing campaign to discredit the females who had been accusing him of sexual misconduct.
Andrew Cuomo resigned from business very last August following multiple females accused him of sexual harassment.
He denied allegations he touched females inappropriately, which include a demand by just one aide that he groped her breast, and claimed his accusers experienced misconstrued remarks he’d supposed to be helpful banter.
“[The governor] preferred to accuse [the woman who alleged he groped her in the governor’s mansion] of possessing fiscal motivations,” Smith writes.
“He wanted to expose her for using the services of a notorious Albany-spot ambulance chaser. He required to go right after her character head-on…”
Smith recollects that it was Chris Cuomo who “finally got him to again off.”
According to Smith, the former CNN anchor “was frequently the previous bulwark from his brother’s worst instincts.”
She wrote: “He could be a lot more direct with Andrew than any of us could be. He leveled with him on phone calls, telling him in no uncertain conditions that his behavior was inappropriate, that he necessary to be extra apologetic and that he could never, at any time appear throughout like he was attacking his accusers.”