Dan Rather is going after his old bosses at CBS like a tornado through a trailer park.
The former “CBS Evening News” anchor yesterday filed a $70 million lawsuit against CBS head Leslie Moonves and former CBS News boss Andrew Heyward, charging their “fraudulent conduct” cost him “significant financial loss.”
The action is almost a carbon copy of one Rather already has pending against CBS, which charges the network made him the scapegoat for a flawed 2004 report on then-President George W. Bush’s service in the Texas Air National Guard.
Moonves and Heyward were named as defendants in Rather’s original suit, but the claims against them were dismissed.
The new action names both men individually — not simply as employees of CBS.
CBS called the action a “tiresome plea for attention” by Rather and predicted it, too, would be dismissed.