The New Yorker suspended his co-worker Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating during a live Zoom

The US weekly New Yorker ha sospeso Jeffrey Toobin, his legal analyst and commentator, waiting to clarify the allegation that he masturbated during a business call on Zoom, the popular video conferencing app, in early October. Toobin Monday he said that he had “made an embarrassing and stupid mistake” and that he believed he was “off screen.” He then apologized to his wife, his family, his friends and colleagues. Toobin explained that he was convinced that he had turned off the video function and that no one during the call could see him.

Toobin is one of the best known legal analysts in the media in the United States. Work for the New Yorker for more than 25 years and is also a legal analyst at CNN, who released a statement explaining that Toobin “has requested a period of vacation to deal with a personal matter.” The call during which Toobin allegedly masturbated was a videoconference between the analyst and some employees of the New Yorker and WNYC, a New York radio station.

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