NYT Slams One of Its Lawyers for Secretly Trying to Block Its Weinstein Story
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On Monday night, The New Yorker did something you may not have thought possible: It published another astonishing story about disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. (At this point you’d think we would have lost our ability to be shocked by anything Weinstein-relatedbut no.) The report by Ronan Farrow is headlined “Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies” and begins,
In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations. According to dozens of pages of documents, and seven people directly involved in the effort, the firms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world’s largest corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies.
Farrow (who also authored The New Yorker’s previous Weinstein expos, published early last month) details the various disturbing tactics deployed by Weinstein’s would-be protectors. For example, “One of the investigators pretended to be a women’s-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan”actress Rose McGowan, one of Weinstein’s accusers.
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