Bryan Freedman: Last News

Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo wants the network to pay up, to the tune of $125 million.Cuomo is claiming CNN wrongfully terminated him last year, and his legal team is demanding the payment in an arbitration bid that could be just the start of a long, messy legal drama.Last December, Cuomo was let go amid reports that he was actively advising his brother, then-NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo, when the latter was being accused of sexual harassment by multiple women.“It should, by now, be obvious to everyone that Chris Cuomo did not lie to CNN about helping his brother,” Chris Cuomo’s attorney Bryan Freedman said in a statement.“In fact, as the limited information released from WarnerMedia’s investigation makes clear, CNN’s highest-level executives not only knew about Chris’s involvement in helping his brother but also actively assisted the Governor, both through Chris and directly themselves.”“As a result of Turner’s indefensible choice to unceremoniously fire him, Cuomo has been damaged in countless ways,” the demand for arbitration reads.Before he resigned last summer, Gov.