Anthony Scaramucci Net Worth, Donald Trump Ally Who Caused 3 CNN Reporters To Resign

It was reported Monday that three CNN reporters resigned following the publication and subsequent retraction of a news report linking Anthony Scaramucci, a member of President Donald Trump’s transition team to FBI’s ongoing Russia probe.

The controversial CNN story, which was published Thursday, asserted that the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating a Russian investment fund "whose chief executive met with a member of Donald Trump's transition team four days before Trump's inauguration," USA Today reported.

The person that the Russian chief executive allegedly met was Scaramucci, a member of Trump's Transition Team Executive Committee. However, the story ultimately ended up being retracted by CNN, followed by three eminent journalists that were covering the news piece, leaving the organization.

"In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story's publication," a spokesman for CNN said Monday evening.

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It came as a shock to most people when CNN reporter and Pulitzer-Prize nominee Thomas Frank, assistant managing editor and Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Lichtblau, and the executive editor in charge of investigations Lex Haris resigned.

"On Friday, CNN retracted a story published by my team. As Executive Editor of that team, I have resigned," Haris said in a statement published by CNN. "I've been with CNN since 2001, and am sure about one thing: This is a news organization that prizes accuracy and fairness above all else. I am leaving, but will carry those principles wherever I go."

According to CNN an internal investigation by its management resulted in the discovery that proper editorial processes were not followed when the article on Scaramucci was published.

Scaramucci is an American entrepreneur, author, financer and well-known Trump ally, who has an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion, Celebrity Net Worth reported. He is the founder and co-managing partner of the investment firm SkyBridge Capital, which currently has $7 billion in assets under management. On January 14 2017, Anthony Scaramucci sold SkyBridge to a Chinese bank for $11.5 billion.

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After CNN published the story Thursday, Scaramucci went on Twitter and claimed that he had done “nothing wrong.”

An anonymous source familiar with the matter told Politico that Scaramucci had called Haris and then Washington Bureau Chief Sam Feist on Friday after the story was posted, alluding that he was going to file a lawsuit if the particular piece was not retracted. Following the resignation of the three reporters, Scaramucci went on Twitter to thank the news outlet for the decision taken, writing, “Apology accepted.”

Scaramucci wasn’t always the loyal Trump ally that the world sees him as today. Initially, he was a supporter of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush during the run up to the 2016 Presidential election.

It was only after Trump became the clear front runner of the race that in May 2016 Scaramucci joined the Trump Finance Committee. After coming out on the top, Trump named Scaramucci a member of the Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee. He was also offered the position of Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs, a post that Scaramucci never took up.

Trump has posted his reaction on the CNN reporters quitting, in a recent tweet: