Welcome to The Investigation.

I'm Chris Vlaster, Senior Executive Producer here at ABC News and the co-host of this podcast.

I'm joined today by Senior National Correspondent and ABC News World News Tonight anchor Tom Yamis.

And listen, we just had a very big investigation outside of impeachment.

And the story involved billionaire, former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg.

And actually the investigative team, along with Matt Mosque, who's down in Washington,

who's the senior producer of our investigative team, and Sasha Peznik, who's covering Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren. And Tom, let's start with you.

Describe what the story was and what we were trying to do here about Michael Bloomberg.

Right. What we try to do is basically tell this story because there are a lot of allegations

out there about the kind of language Michael Bloomberg used when he first started his company in the 80s and 90s, allegations that really have followed

him's entire political career. But not a lot of reporting has been done on it for a variety of

reasons that we found out after looking into this. But what follows the allegations of the crude

language are lawsuits against Michael Bloomberg, but more

against the Bloomberg company. And when Michael Bloomberg is named in these lawsuits, they

essentially blame him or hold them responsible for sort of fostering this culture, if you

will, of men being able to say what they want to women, sexual harassment, sexism, gender

inequality. And so we started to dig from the start.

You know, where did this problem for Michael Bloomberg really start? And it starts in the 90s,

really. That's when some of these allegations come out. And one of the things we found is we actually

got to the first attorney of a former Bloomberg employee called Sikiko Sikai.

She was a regional sales manager, and she had this almost unbelievable allegation against

Michael Bloomberg.

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