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CBS, LAPD captain led cover-up of sexual assault report against Les Moonves, attorney general says

Les Moonves, who was then president and chief executive of CBS, attends the 2017 CBS Upfront in New York City.

The New York attorney general’s office released a sweeping report Wednesday that detailed an elaborate cover-up at the highest levels of CBS in late 2017 and 2018 to try to contain allegations of sexual harassment by former chief Leslie Moonves.

The report comes five years after a Los Angeles Police Department captain tipped off CBS executives, telling them a woman had come to the department’s Hollywood station to report that Moonves had allegedly assaulted her in the 1980s.

The unidentified LAPD captain secretly provided Moonves and CBS executives with status updates on the LAPD’s investigation for months, as well as personal details about the alleged

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