#New Yorker suspends Jeffrey Toobin for showing penis during Zoom call
“#New Yorker suspends Jeffrey Toobin for showing penis during Zoom call”
The incident happened during an online meeting between magazine colleagues and WNYC workers last week, sources told Vice.
“I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,” Toobin later copped to Vice in a statement.
“I believed I was not visible on Zoom. I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.
“I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers.”
A spokeswoman for the New Yorker said, “Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended while we investigate the matter.”
CNN added in a statement that Toobin, a Harvard Law School grad, would be taking time off from the cable network, as well.
“Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted,” CNN said in a statement.
Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker and famously covered the OJ Simpson trial for the mag in the 1990s.
He turned his Simpson coverage into a book, which fueled FX’s “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story’’ in 2016.
He is a prolific author who has written about everything from the US Supreme Court to presidents to onetime kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst.
Toobin didn’t immediately return a request for comment.
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