Sunny Hostin jumped to her husband Emmanuel “Manny” Hostin’s defense after he was named as a defendant in an insurance fraud lawsuit. In her statement, The View co-host slammed American Transit for its “ frivolous civil lawsuit ” and said that the company only took legal action as a “desperate attempt to avoid paying for medical and surgical procedures for people it insured who were in pain.

Sunny Hostin has broken her silence just a week after her husband, Dr. Emmanuel Hostin, was named in what has been called “a major RICO case” by multiple media outlets. Emmanuel Hostin is among nearly 200 other defendants named in a federal lawsuit.