Then, in October, Giuliani got into hot water after unwittingly appearing in Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest mockumentary, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm. Giuliani met with Derkach last year, but claims he had no idea he was a Russian agent.
In September, the Treasury Department sanctioned Ukrainian Andriy Derkach for his efforts to influence the 2020 U.S. But in his latest incarnation as President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, he has suffered a seemingly unending string of mishaps, both large and small. In a former life, Giuliani was known as a firebrand federal prosecutor who took on and reined in the Mafia and Wall Street before transforming himself into “America’s Mayor” for his deft and reassuring leadership in the surreal aftermath of September 11.
My view is simple: Racism and sexism are abhorrent and will not be tolerated in CrossFit.” Since then, the company has appointed a head of culture and inclusion and plans to form a diversity, equity and inclusion council, among other initiatives. After the sale, Roza tweeted a statement: “In the past weeks, divisive statements and allegations have left many members of our community struggling to reconcile our transformative experiences in the local box with what we’ve been reading online. Days later he sold CrossFit for an undisclosed amount to Eric Roza, a former Oracle exec who owned a CrossFit gym in Boulder, Colorado. Through company spokespeople, Glassman denied such conduct. A week or so later, t he New York Times published an explosive investigation detailing accusations of sexual harassment and workplace sexism at CrossFit, fostered by Glassman. Glassman quickly apologized, saying, "It was a mistake, not racist but a mistake.” But it didn’t end there. That same week, Glassman had made light of Floyd’s killing in a tweet, causing some athletes like Rich “The Fittest Man on Earth” Froning and 2016 CrossFit champion Noah Ohlsen to cut ties with the company. During the same meeting, Glassman also repeated an unfounded conspiracy theory that Floyd was part of a money-laundering ring involving counterfeit bills and opined that racism and police brutality are not systemic problems. The CrossFit founder and CEO resigned in June after BuzzFeed News obtained leaked audio from a Zoom meeting where he said he wasn’t mourning George Floyd’s death.