The woman who recorded a clip of an ABC News reporter trashing the network for spiking a story about a Jeffrey Epstein accuser years ago was fired from her job at CBS News after the footage was leaked.
Ashley Bianco, 25, an Emmy-winning producer for CBS This Morning, is the former employee who obtained the footage of Amy Robach, according to The Daily Mail and journalist Yashar Ali. She was a producer at ABC for Good Morning America prior to her leaving for CBS News. CBS has since fired Bianco after learning of her involvement.
7. The name of the former ABC News employee who was fired by CBS News this week is Ashley Bianco. In the past 24 hours she has deleted her Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.
Bianco was an associate producer at Good Morning America before leaving for CBS This Morning last month pic.twitter.com/r4QuqALooe
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) November 8, 2019
On Tuesday, Project Veritas released a video of Amy Robach discussing the information she received years earlier from Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre on a hot mic. The reporter can be heard expressing her frustration surrounding ABC News’s refusal to air the interview and claimed that the network made the decision after receiving threats from Buckingham Palace when they had found out Prince Andrew was implicated in the story. She also alleged that Epstein might have been murdered.
“It was unbelievable what we had. Clinton, we had everything,” Robach stated. “I tried for three years to get it on to no avail. And now it’s all coming out, and it’s like these new revelations, and I freaking had all of it.”
Following the release of the Project Veritas video, she released a statement claiming that her comments were “caught in a private moment of frustration” and added that her interview with Giuffre “didn’t air because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence to meet ABC’s editorial standards about her allegations.”
