Leslie Moonves, the ousted former chief of CBS Corp. whose storied profession got here to an abrupt finish in 2018 amid the disclosure of previous sexual assault allegations, has been ordered to pay a $11,250 advantageous by the Los Angeles Metropolis Ethics Fee for his function in a 2017 LAPD scandal linked to his downfall at CBS.

In 2017, as CBS’ chief was more and more consumed with dodging accusations of previous sexual misconduct from a number of girls, he was tipped off to a police report filed in November 2017 by a kind of accusers. Former TV govt Phyllis Golden-Gottlieb alleged that Moonves sexually assaulting her in 1986 when the 2 labored collectively at Lorimar Tv. Moonves’ informant was Cory Palka, then a captain within the Los Angeles Police Division. Palka had beforehand labored as a non-public safety guard for Moonves on the Grammy Awards from 2008 to 2014. Palka then additional violated confidentiality legal guidelines and regulation enforcement ethics by sending Moonves a duplicate of Gottlieb’s report, in response to the Ethics Fee report made public on Feb. 16.

Moonves admits that he “violated Metropolis regulation by aiding and abetting the disclosure and misuse of confidential data and by inducing a Metropolis official to misuse his place to try to create a non-public benefit for Moonves,” in response to the fee’s order. A spokesman for Moonves declined to remark late Friday.

Palka’s stunning tipoff to Moonves was disclosed in 2022 as a part of the New York state Legal professional Normal’s probe into the cascading allegations round Moonves and whether or not CBS Corp. violated Securities and Trade Fee guidelines by not disclosing the damaging data to shareholders sooner. Moonves and CBS reached a $30 million settlement within the New York case.

Palka, who as soon as ran the division’s busy Hollywood station, retired from the LAPD in early 2021 on the rank of commander. After his exercise got here to gentle, the LAPD launched an inner investigation into his conduct. The standing of that probe is unclear.