Les Moonves accused of obstructing misconduct investigation -- report finds CBS employees performed "transactional" oral sex on him

The New York Times

The New York Times reviewed a 59-page draft version of the independent investigation the CBS board ordered over the former CBS CEO's alleged misconduct. The report, which will be presented to the board next week, recommends that CBS should deny Moonves his $120 million severance package. The report found that “Moonves received oral sex from at least 4 CBS employees under circumstances that sound transactional and improper to the extent that there was no hint of any relationship, romance, or reciprocity.” Additionally, investigators were told by multiple people that CBS had an employee “who was ‘on call’ to perform oral sex” on Moonves. “A number of employees were aware of this and believed that the woman was protected from discipline or termination as a result of it," according to the report. The investigation also found that a board member, before joining the CBS board, knew about an instance of Moonves allegedly sexually assaulting his doctor. Investigators also interviewed 11 of the 17 women who accused Moonves of sexual misconduct, and found their accounts to be credible. According to The Times, the report found Moonves “engaged in multiple acts of serious nonconsensual sexual misconduct in and outside of the workplace, both before and after he came to CBS in 1995." Investigators spoke to Moonves four times and found him “evasive and untruthful at times and to have deliberately lied about and minimized the extent of his sexual misconduct.”