LAPD captain warned CBS about Les Moonves sexual assault claim, NY attorney general says

Paramount Global and erstwhile CBS main Les Moonves agreed to marque further payments to settee an probe by the New York State Attorney General's office, which disclosed further allegations involving the Los Angeles Police Department's relation successful the substance connected Wednesday.

The probe by New York Attorney General Letitia James recovered that a commanding serviceman with the LAPD had tipped disconnected the erstwhile CBS main enforcement and different executives successful 2018 astir sexual battle allegations earlier they were made public.

According to a filing from James' office, the LAPD serviceman near this dependable connection for CBS enforcement Ian Metrose: "I cognize we haven't talked successful a while. I americium a skipper astatine LAPD Hollywood. Somebody walked successful the presumption astir a mates hours agone and made allegations against your brag regarding a intersexual assault. It's confidential, arsenic you know, but telephone me, and I tin springiness you immoderate of the details and fto you cognize what the allegation is earlier it goes to the media oregon gets out. So each close speech to you aft a while. Bye."

The findings besides allege 1 of the elder executives sold millions of dollars' worthy of shares based disconnected of the accusation and earlier they went public.

James said she referred the substance to the California Attorney General's office. A typical for the LAPD declined to comment. CNBC has reached retired to Moonves' representatives and Metrose, who inactive works astatine the company. Paramount declined to remark further connected him.

"We are pleased to resoluteness this substance concerning events from 2018 with the New York Attorney General's office, without immoderate admittance of liability oregon wrongdoing," a Paramount spokesperson said Wednesday. "The substance progressive alleged misconduct by CBS's erstwhile CEO, who was terminated for origin successful 2018, and does not subordinate successful immoderate mode to the existent company."

CBS and Viacom merged successful 2019, aboriginal changing the company's sanction to Paramount Global.

The probe recovered substance messages betwixt the LAPD captain, top-ranking CBS executives and Moonves that revealed the allegations. The skipper besides worked with executives for respective months to forestall the ailment from becoming public, according to the lawyer general's merchandise connected Wednesday.

Moonves near CBS successful 2018 after allegations of intersexual misconduct and taste problems successful the company. Following his exit, the committee hired 2 instrumentality firms to analyse the allegations, uncovering determination were crushed to occurrence the enforcement for cause. Moonves has antecedently denied the accusations.

As portion of filings related to Paramount's 3rd 4th earnings connected Wednesday, the institution reported it agreed to wage $7.25 cardinal to shareholders, portion Moonves volition wage $2.5 million. This is successful summation to the $14.25 cardinal earlier paid by Paramount successful the settlement.

"CBS and Leslie Moonves' attempts to soundlessness victims, prevarication to the public, and mislead investors tin lone beryllium described arsenic reprehensible," James said successful the Wednesday release. "As a publically traded company, CBS failed its astir basal work to beryllium honorable and transparent with the nationalist and investors."

The colony besides bars Moonves from serving arsenic an serviceman oregon manager of a institution that does concern successful New York without archetypal gaining support from they lawyer general's office.

Paramount said successful nationalist filings Wednesday that the institution reached a woody with the Investor Protection Bureau of the New York lawyer general's bureau without admitting wrongdoing oregon liability.