Ripp Media is handling PR for Bill Cosby’s demand that charges against him by Andrea Constand be dismissed on the ground that the Montgomery County D.A.’s office reneged on a promise not to prosecute Cosby.
A press release by the New York firm notes that Cosby waived his right to invoke the Fifth Amendment when testifying in a civil case brought by Constand which was made because the D.A. had vowed not to prosecute him.
The D.A. had found there was “insufficient credible and admissible evidence” to charge Cosby.
A motion by Cosby’s law team, Liner LLP and Brian McMonagle of McMonagle, Perri, McHugh & Mishak, says that in July 2015 the judge overseeing Constand’s earlier civil case “improperly unsealed extensive portions of Mr. Cosby’s confidential testimony. The excerpts were widely misreported by the press and social media, raising an enormous presumption of guilt in the public’s mind.”
The 27-page brief was the subject of a 613-word article by Julie Miller in the Oct. 6 online “Vanities” of Vanity Fair.
The brief, says the Ripp press release, charges that “a decade’s delay and political posturing by the County’s current D.A. have further prejudiced Mr. Cosby. The motion makes a strong Constitutional argument for tossing the criminal case against him…the absence of valid reasons to justify the late filing of charges will mandate the trial court to dismiss those charges.”
Cosby’s primary PR counsel is longtime family representative Andrew Wyatt. Ripp is collaborating with Wyatt, who remains Cosby's primary media contact.
Ripp Media in July helped Gretchen Carlson in her sexual harassment/retaliation lawsuit against Roger Ailes of Fox News.
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