Documents Show How Hard Ex-DA Bruce Castor Worked To Help Bill Cosby Avoid Charges
LatestAs more and more women spoke out saying they, too, had been drugged and then sexually assaulted by Bill Cosby, one question that remained unanswered was how the hell one of the most powerful men in Hollywood avoided prosecution until so very recently. An answer has begun to emerge, thanks to a legal document filed by lawyers for one of the first women to speak out, Andrea Constand. Those documents include a portion of a deposition in which former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor—who originally decided not to prosecute Cosby—manages to get basic facts about the case wrong, as well as an email that shows him providing guidance to Cosby’s defense team on why he felt Cosby still shouldn’t be charged.
Today, Castor’s lawyers announced that he was filing a personal injury lawsuit against Constand. James Beasley, Jr., the attorney representing him explained the thinking behind to suit to Philly.com: “[Constand] was trying to gain a tactical advantage with the election in order to get Kevin Steele put in so that she could get Cosby prosecuted.” An attorney for Constand’s lawyers countered that, from what they had heard, “we do not expect [the lawsuit] will last very long.”
(Jezebel reached out to both Beasley and Castor’s other attorney, Justin Bayer, for comment on this piece. Neither immediately responded; we will update this post if they do.)
Constand filed her lawsuit against Castor back in 2015, saying statements he had made in the press had defamed her and cast her in a false light. Castor was running for district attorney at the time (he lost to Kevin Steele, who charged Cosby), but in the process, Constand’s lawsuit said, he repeatedly misrepresented the details of her case in ways that hurt her. The suit sheds light on Castor’s suit filed today because it contained documents that detail just how hard Castor seemed to work to help Cosby out of legal trouble.