{"id":1065748,"date":"2021-11-29T17:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065748"},"modified":"2021-11-29T17:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T22:59:42","slug":"chris-cuomo-shared-intel-on-brothers-accuser-text-messages-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-cuomo-shared-intel-on-brothers-accuser-text-messages-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Cuomo Shared Intel on Brother\u2019s Accuser, Text Messages Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchris-cuomo-shared-intel-on-brothers-accuser-text-messages-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1065748&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.772893772894\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">CNN anchor leaned on friends in media for heads-up on negative stories about &#8216;Luv Guv&#8217; bruv<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cuomo-bros-736x454-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cuomo-bros-736x454.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cuomo-bros-1024x631.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cuomo-bros-768x473.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cuomo-bros-1536x947.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cuomo-bros-2048x1262.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/cuomo-bros-1400x863.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tChris Cuomo and then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D.)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/chuck-ross\/\" title=\"Posts by Chuck Ross\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Chuck Ross<\/a> \u2022 November 29, 2021 5:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"85.247892074199\">\n<p>CNN anchor Chris Cuomo offered his brother&#8217;s advisers information he thought might discredit one of the former governor&#8217;s accusers, according to text messages released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The trove of <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/chris_cuomo_exhibits_-_combined.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">messages<\/a>, released as part of New York attorney general Letitia James&#8217;s investigation of Andrew Cuomo, show Chris Cuomo contacted friends in the media industry to find out when news organizations planned to publish stories about his brother&#8217;s alleged victims. He also texted with advisers in the governor&#8217;s office, saying he had a &#8220;lead&#8221; on one of the alleged victims. The exchanges were largely with Melissa DeRosa, a longtime aide to Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney general&#8217;s office is investigating nearly a dozen claims of sexual harassment against the disgraced former governor. The probe has had significant political fallout. Cuomo and DeRosa resigned from office in August. The heads of two social justice organizations\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/times-up-founder-resigns-in-wake-of-cuomo-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Time&#8217;s Up<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/cuomo-aides-recruited-pro-lgbt-activist-to-help-discredit-governors-accuser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Human Rights Campaign<\/a>\u2014resigned after the attorney general&#8217;s investigation found they advised Cuomo while he faced misconduct allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Cuomo has escaped the controversy relatively unscathed, though the documents released Monday show he played a more significant role advising his brother than he has publicly acknowledged. The primetime anchor, who <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/wireStory\/abc-news-executive-chris-cuomo-harassed-80208233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was accused<\/a> this year of making unwanted sexual advances against an ABC News executive in 2005, claims he encouraged his brother to apologize to his accusers. Cuomo also denies trying to discredit any of the governor&#8217;s accusers, though his exchange with DeRosa may call that claim into question.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo told DeRosa in a message on March 4 he had a &#8220;lead on the wedding girl,&#8221; a reference to Anna Ruch. Ruch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/01\/nyregion\/cuomo-harassment-anna-ruch.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the <em>New York Times<\/em> on March 1 that Cuomo touched her inappropriately and asked to kiss her during a wedding reception in 2019. When asked about the text messages at <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.ny.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2021.07.15_christopher_cuomo_cleary_11.24.2021_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a deposition<\/a> on July 15, Chris Cuomo testified he had heard from a friend that Ruch accused Andrew Cuomo of wrongdoing because &#8220;she had been put up to it.&#8221; Cuomo said he did not pursue the matter further after speaking with DeRosa, who said Ruch had complained about the incident soon after it happened.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo collected other information for DeRosa and the governor&#8217;s team, he told investigators with the attorney general&#8217;s office. &#8220;I would\u2014when asked, I would reach out to sources, other journalists, to see if they had heard of anybody else coming out,&#8221; he testified.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo said he contacted sources to find out when <em>Politico<\/em> and investigative journalist Ronan Farrow would publish stories about Cuomo&#8217;s accusers. Cuomo expressed relief upon learning that Farrow was writing a story about just one of Cuomo&#8217;s accusers, Lindsey Boylan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Ronan has nothing better than Boylan that&#8217;s a great sign,&#8221; Cuomo wrote DeRosa on March 14, four days before Farrow published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/news-desk\/cuomos-first-accuser-raises-new-claims-of-harassment-and-retaliation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CNN did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats CNN anchor leaned on friends in media for heads-up on negative stories about &#8216;Luv Guv&#8217; bruv  Chris Cuomo and then-New York governor Andrew Cuomo (D.) &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}