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'They're trying to embarrass a widely-honored journalist for a million-dollar payday': CNN's lawyers hits back at two EMTs who are suing the network after being bitten by 'seriously intoxicated' reporter
CNN has hit back at two EMTs who sued the company after star-reporter Arwa Damon became 'seriously intoxicated' and bit them in Baghdad, Iraq in July.
Instead of settling with Tracy Lamar and Charles Simons, the news network's lawyers hit back with a move to dismiss the case from New York Supreme Court claiming the two paramedics are money-grabbers out to ruin the reputation of CNN and a respected journalist.
The two men were allegedly injured when the 36-year-old Beirut-based correspondent got belligerent.
CNN is trying to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two paramedics who were apparently bitten by correspondent Arwa Damon in July, after she became 'seriously intoxicated'
The medics were called to calm the correspondent after she became 'totally out of control,' reports the New York Daily News.
She allegedly tried to deter them by attempting a 'don't you know who I am?'
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Two employees of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad are suing CNN and one of its senior international correspondents, Arwa Damon, claiming that she was “seriously intoxicated” and “unruly and violent” on July 19 when she allegedly bit them both as they provided her medical aid.
Charles Simons and Tracy Lamar, EMTs working for a private contractor in Baghdad, claim CNN has continued to employ the Emmy-award winning journalist despite her “history of becoming intoxicated and then abusive.”
The 36-year-old was “totally out of control” the day of the incident, forcing embassy staff to call the medics to calm the correspondent, David Jaroslawicz, an attorney for Simons and Lamar, told the Daily News. Damon then boasted her credentials as “a major reporter for CNN” as she struggled and thrashed against Simons and Lamar, each of whom were bitten and bruised during the incident, the suit, filed Monday in New York State supreme court, claims.
“She was biting them both pretty furiously. She has good teeth,” Jaroslawicz said
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Arwa Damon is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and president and founder of the International Network for Aid, Relief, and Assistance (INARA), a nonprofit organization that focuses on building a network of logistical support and medical care to help children who need lifesaving or life-altering medical treatment in war-torn nations.
Until June 2022, Damon, an award-winning journalist covering the Middle East, was a senior international correspondent based in CNN’s Istanbul bureau. During her sixteen years at CNN, she reported from across the region, including extensive coverage of Iraq and Syria. In 2018, she was awarded the George Foster Peabody Award for her reporting on the fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, in addition to winning three Emmys for that coverage, including an Emmy for Outstanding News Special for Return to Mosul. At the height of Europe’s refugee crisis in 2015, Damon followed and reported on refugees from Syria and Iraq as they traveled across the continent by foot, boat, and train, resulting in coverage
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