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CBS Board Hires 2 Firms to Investigate Les Moonves Sexual Harassment Allegations

CEO is still scheduled to participate in this afternoon’s earnings call

CEO Moonves will “have no role” in the investigation and is “entirely recused from it," said the CBS Board.Getty Images
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By Jason Lynch

August 2, 2018

The CBS board has hired two separate law firms to investigate the sexual harassment allegations against CBS Corp. chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves in last Friday’s New Yorker story.

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Jason Lynch

Jason Lynch is TV editor at Adweek, overseeing trends, technology, personalities and programming across broadcast, cable and streaming video.

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