Insider Exposes ESPN's Racism and Sexism
Plus: Reports That Fredo Cuomo Is Demanding $60 Million In What Looks Like a Barely-Disguised Blackmail Scheme

But it's not racism-racism and sexism-sexism -- it's directed at white people and especially white men. This is not only allowed but encouraged at racist, WokESPN.

The insider contacted Project Veritas and he recorded his fellow WokESPN employees complaining or simply acknowledging the company's racism.

ESPN On-Air Talent Discuss Toxic Workplace Environment in Whistleblower's Explosive Undercover Footage: 'Just Blatantly Racist Sh*t'

Whistleblower-recorded audio and video show numerous ESPN employees discussing what they see as a toxic, racist workplace environment which directly contradicts the image that ESPN tries to project.

In one clip, a black studio operator discusses, "the racial shit that happens in here all the time." In another clip, a black woman working as an audio communications specialist says "that's not how it is" when addressing the difference between ESPN's workplace environment and social justice image.

On-air talent Alyson Lang, who covers the SEC for ESPN: "I know the comments that have been made to me at work and the conversations that have been had in front of me at work, like, I mean just blatantly racist sh*t. Just blatantly, like, complaining to me that we have three white hosts, and I'm like, 'What do you want me- do you want me to leave?'"

On-air talent Matt Schick, who's been with ESPN since 2012, said, "It has different connotations now," when talking about what it's like to tell people he works for ESPN. In the next soundbite, he calls ESPN, "a global entity of forced thought."

The whistleblower, ESPN Studio Operator Trevor Adams, sent a company-wide email outlining these concerns and was subsequently identified by the company as a "threat" which resulted in law enforcement being sent to his home. He was terminated soon after an attempt from Project Veritas to obtain a comment from Human Resources.

He complained of be treated in a racist manner, and they called the cops on him, claiming he was a "threat."

That's right, Woke Disney -- he's a one-man insurrection.

We're all one-man insurrections, potentially.

We need lawsuits. The time for asking is over. It's the time for reckoning.

And it's the time for Vengeance Juries.

On to Fredo's alleged blackmail threat to CNN: There is $18 million left on his contract. You'd think that the very most he could chisel out of CNN is $18 million then, and probably a lot less.

But no, he wants more than three times the outstanding balance of his contract.

Why would Discovery pay such a huge sum to him? They don't owe him that much.

Well, they'd be paying him to not go through with his reported blackmail threat.

Fredo thinks he's found to launder an extortion demand through a legal claim.

By the way, the law does allow you to make certain threats, which could be called "extortion" in other contexts, so long as they are part of a legitimate legal action.

For example, if you say, "Either pay my contract or I'll have my lawyers drag you through the courts for years, and no one will ever trust you again," that's a fair threat made in the context of a legitimate legal gripe, and that would not be extortion.

In other contexts, "Pay me a lot of money or I'll ruin you and your reputation!" could very well be blackmail.

But this is sort of normal in a lawsuit, so there's an exception permitting it.

But Fredo isn't just asking for $18 million.

He's asking for $18 million plus $42 million as a kicker.

The $42 million is to keep him from talking about damaging information.

That last part is itself The Blackmail Premium.

And I don't know that packaging illegal blackmail in a bundle with a lawful legal claim can whitewash the blackmail.

Chris Cuomo isn't backing down in his battle with CNN following the ouster of his boss Jeff Zucker -- the anchor intends to demand as much as a $60 million settlement, according to sources.

Multiple sources tell Page Six that Cuomo -- who was fired in December fpr helping his brother, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, fend off sexual harassment allegations -- is ready to dig his heels in by claiming that Zucker not only knew about his dealings with the governor, but that the network boss had his own inappropriate dealings with Andrew.

And he is prepared to demand not the $18 million left on his contract, but as much as $60 million.

"He wants Megyn Kelly money," we're told.

See, if this report is accurate, he's demanding the money purely for his silence.

That's a classic blackmail demand. "Pay me or I tell your husband about your affair."

(Also note that blackmail itself is the linkage of two acts that are legal on their own: You can demand someone give you money. You can release information to the public. What the law against blackmail forbids is demanding money in exchange for not releasing information to the public.)

One source said: "Chris insists he never did anything for his brother Andrew that Zucker didn't know about.

"His camp believes Zucker wasn't fired for an inappropriate relationship with Allison Gollust. Everybody knew about that and nobody cared.

"What he believes happened is WarnerMedia found something in their investigation into Chris, perhaps internal memos or documents which revealed more about Zucker's involvement with Andrew Cuomo. Gollust was just a convenient excuse."

If Cuomo just asked for the $42 million to not reveal what he knew about Zucker's dealings with Andrew unconnected to a lawsuit, this would be an extortion demand, and a prosecutable crime; why would bundling it with the legitimate part of the lawsuit make it street-legal?

I'm not sure.

"Chris intends to fight for every dollar on his contract, and loss of income from the 15 to 20 years left in his career, had Zucker not orchestrated a 'f--k-job' on him. He could ask for as much as $80 million but CNN isn't going to pay that. But there's an argument he could ask for as much as $60 million."

A second source told Page Six, "Chris is telling people in the Hamptons he was wrongly fired, humiliated, his career has been ruined, and he wants Megyn Kelly money."

(Kelly won a $69 million settlement from NBC in 2019 following the media storm when she defended blackface on her show.)

That's not accurate -- NBC agreed to pay off the remainder of the $69 million contract they signed with her. They owed her about $30 million more, which they paid.

The analogous thing here would be to pay Fredo his $18 million.

But he doesn't want $18 million. He wants $18 million plus a $42 million Blackmail Bonus, according to this report.

Ed Morrissey points out that former CNN Permanent Guest Michael Avenatti also attempted to launder an extortion operation through a colorable legal claim -- making blackmail demands on Nike in the guise of pressing a lawsuit against them -- and he would up getting 2 1/2 years in jail for that.

This was similarly a demand for a large amount of money, $25 million, against the threat of revealing the legal claims against Nike with the promise that he'd wipe out billions of Nike's market value.

Avenatti then leveraged that claim in early 2019 to demand not only a settlement with Franklin, but also a more lucrative consulting agreement from Nike for him and high-powered attorney Mark Geragos in exchange for avoiding a press conference in which he would air Franklin's claims.

Avenatti warned Nike's lawyer that the claims could "take ten billion dollars off your client's" stock market capitalization.

"I'm not f---ing around with this, and I'm not continuing to play games," Avenatti told Nike's lawyers, shortly before his arrest.

In that case, though, Avenatti did something foolish: He split the client's claims against Nike and sought a separate deal between Nike and himself, with Nike paying him, not the client, $25 million, for which he'd make the lawsuit go away.

In that case, he himself had severed any connection between the colorably-lawful legal claim and the demand for money. The payoff to Avenatti was a separate thing. He couldn't claim it was a payment made in settlement of a legitimate lawsuit because it was a side-deal made without the client's knowledge.

He set up the circumstances where he could not claim "But this was all just part of the normal settlement back-in-forth over a legitimate lawsuit!"

I don't think Fredo will commit any errors like that. Not because he's not stupid -- he is -- but just because he's not representing anyone except his own greedy, vengeful, extortionate self.

Still, it would be nice to see this bitch punked out in prison.

Absolute scumbags. Some guest on Megyn Kelly mentioned that the Cuomo Boys had the reputation of blackmailers, or at least, people who would dig up whatever dirt they could to harm their enemies.

I'm so glad NeverTrump has helped Restore Our Norms.

Yeah, I'm rooting for injuries here but I really hate blackmailers. There's a reason that no one cries in murder mysteries when the blackmailer gets killed. In fact, everyone just smiles.

Quick, Disney! Call up your social media co-conspirators to get Project Veritas deplatformed!

And CNN, you call... well I don't know who you can get deplatformed to help with the Fredo Cuomo situation, so you might as well just get Joe Rogan deplatformed as a Mental Health Deplatforming.

posted by Ace at 06:30 PM

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