A week after Bill Cosby was convicted of three counts of sexual assault, his wife, Camille Cosby, has released a statement disparaging her husband’s accusers and the prosecutors who sealed his legal fate.
“I am publicly asking for a criminal investigation of that district attorney and his cohorts,” said the entertainment mogul's wife of 54 years. “This is a homogeneous group of exploitative and corrupt people, whose primary purpose is to advance themselves professionally and economically at the expense of Mr. Cosby’s life. If they can do this to Mr. Cosby, they can do so to anyone.”
The conviction of the 80-year-old, who's been accused of sexual assault by a plethora of women, was part of Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele's campaign promises. Steele was one of the lawyers to prosecute Cosby. He announced Cosby’s arrest a month after his election in November 2015.
Camille Cosby also attacked the media coverage of the trial and claims it influenced the outcome.
“Once again, an innocent person has been found guilty based on an unthinking, unquestioning, unconstitutional frenzy propagated by the media and allowed to play out in a supposed court of law," she continued.
She also cast doubt on the testimony of Andrea Constand.
"I firmly believe (Constand's) recent testimony during trial was perjured; as was shown at trial, it was unsupported by any evidence and riddled with innumerable, dishonest contradictions,” she said.
Like Cosby’s publicists, his wife compared the conviction and actions like the rescinding of honorary degrees to a lynching.
“In the case of Bill Cosby, unproven accusations evolved into lynch mobs, who publicly and privately coerced cancellations of Bill Cosby’s scheduled performances; syndications of ‘The Cosby Show’; rescissions of honorary degrees and a vindictive attempt to close an exhibition of our collection of African American art in the Smithsonian Museum of African Art,” she said.