Hayley Geftman-Gold, Brooklyn Heights CBS Exec, Fired For Facebook Comment On Vegas Massacre

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, NY — Local mom and power attorney Hayley Geftman-Gold was fired Monday from her job as a top corporate lawyer for CBS, network officials said, over "deeply unacceptable" comments she made on Facebook about Sunday’s deadly mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas.

“If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing,” Geftman-Gold wrote in a since-deleted Facebook comment. (Presumably referring to the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in which 20 children were killed.)

“I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters," she wrote.

Geftman-Gold's former Facebook account identified her as vice president and senior counsel of strategic transactions for CBS. She had been with the network for about a year, CBS said in a statement to Fox News.

“This individual, who was with us for approximately one year, violated the standards of our company and is no longer an employee of CBS," the statement said. "Her views as expressed on social media are deeply unacceptable to all of us at CBS. Our hearts go out to the victims in Las Vegas and their families."

The ex-CBS lawyer's comment was captured in a screenshot by the Daily Caller, a conservative news site.

In an apology of her own issued Monday night, Geftman-Gold wrote:

“Earlier today I posted an indefensible post in a Facebook discussion thread concerning the tragic Las Vegas shooting, a statement I sincerely regret. I am deeply sorry for diminishing the significance of every life affected by Stephen Paddock’s terrorism last night and for the pain my words have inflicted on the loved ones of the victims. My shameful comments do not reflect the beliefs of my former employer, colleagues, family, and friends. Nor do they reflect my actual beliefs — this senseless violence warrants the deepest empathy. I understand and accept all consequences that my words have incurred.”

Geftman-Gold lives with her husband and three kids in Brooklyn Heights, according to the Daily Mail. She describes herself on Twitter as a "mommy" and "new media lawyer."

On Election Day last year, the local lawyer and her friend, a filmmaker, organized a premature victory party for Hillary Clinton at the corner of Clinton and President streets in Carroll Gardens. But when, a couple hours after the crowd was sent home on NYPD orders, it became clear Donald Trump would win the presidency, Geftman-Gold lamented in a Facebook message: "I'm curled up in a fetal position at home."

Reporting by Beth Dalbey/Patch. Lead photo by David Becker/Getty Images