Scaramucci Reportedly Threatens to Sue College Student Who Penned Critical Op-Ed

Aidan McLaughlinNov 27th, 2017, 10:08 am

Anthony Scaramucci, the 10-day White House communications director, reportedly threatened legal action in an email to a student who wrote a critical op-ed about the hedge-funder for his school paper.

Tufts University postponed a Monday event with alumnus Scaramucci after “he threatened to sue a student and the school newspaper for defamation following the publication of an op-ed column criticizing him,” the Boston Globe reported.

According to the Globe, Scaramucci’s lawyer sent a letter to graduate student Camilo A. Caballero and The Tufts Daily newspaper demanding a retraction of “false and defamatory allegations of fact” allegedly contained in an op-ed written by Caballero — as well as an apology.

“In an e-mail to Caballero, Scaramucci said the student had ‘suggested publicly’ that Scaramucci had engaged in unethical behavior,” the Globe also reported.

“So either back it up or you will hear from my lawyer,” Scaramucci wrote on Nov. 16. “You may have a difference of opinion from me politically which I respect but you can’t make spurious claims about my reputation and integrity.”

In Caballero’s op-ed, published November 6, the student slammed Scaramucci and called into question his position on an advisory board at Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

“A man who is irresponsible, inconsistent, an unethical opportunist and who exuded the highest degree of disreputability should not be on the Fletcher Board,” Caballero wrote of the Mooch. “Scaramucci has, in his career and actions, demonstrated nothing that would align his values with those of the Fletcher School. His presence on the board instead places the credibility of Fletcher at risk.”

Scaramucci confirmed that he asked for an apology for the op-ed in a series of tweets responding to his critics:

I asked for an apology for defamatory statements. That is a teachable moment professor. The student is an adult, let his actions stand without any coddling. You can’t defame people in America because you don’t like their political views. https://t.co/q5fi8wszqn

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) November 27, 2017