Leslie Moonves’ $11,250 Settlement With City of L.A. Rejected By Ethics Commission
variety.comLeslie Moonves for “aiding and abetting the disclosure of confidential information and inducing or attempting to induce the misuse of a City position.” According to KNX Newsradio, in a unanimous 4-0 vote, committee president Jeffery J.
Daar, VP Manjusha P. Kulkarni and members Rabbi Aryeh Cohen and Alex M. Johnson shot down a plan for Moonves to pay an $11,250 fine by the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission for his role in a 2017 LAPD scandal connected to his downfall at CBS.
According to the agreement, if the Ethics Commission members were to refuse to accept this stipulation, it becomes null and void and the payments are returned — with the next step likely to be a full evidentiary hearing.
In 2017, as CBS’ leader was increasingly consumed with dodging accusations of past sexual misconduct from multiple women, he was tipped off to a police report filed in November 2017 by one of those accusers.
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