The New York Times features former CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin as a contributing opinion writer for four years after her colleague caught him masturbating on a video call, Puck News said It was reported on Wednesday.

After first reporting that Toubin was participating in the Opinion section as a staff member, Pack’s Dylan Byers revised the first scoop and reported that Toubin is joining the Times as the opinion writer he is contributing to. I did.

+ Mea Culpa: Toobin is currently a Contributing Opinion Writer for the New York Times. He’s not on staff. I regret the error.

– Dylanbyers (@dylanbyers) February 12, 2025

The New Yorker, who he previously worked as a staff writer, fired Toobin in 2020 after a colleague masturbated him in a joint video conference between New Yorkers and WNYC staff. According to To the secondary news.

CNN allowed Toobin’s leave, but requested in the wake of the incident, but was eventually able to return to his senior legal analyst position. (Related: Jeffrey Toubin – twitching in front of his colleague – Rittenhouse thinks he’s an “idiot”)

Toobin held CNN’s position until it left the network in 2022, closing the 20 years Career There.

He apologized again after the initial incident in October 2020, after returning to CNN’s airwaves in June 2021.

“I thought I’d turned off the Zoom Call. Now it’s not defense. It was deeply ridiculous and I couldn’t defend it. But I mean it’s part of the story. And you know, I’ve had seven months of miserable months in my life, I can certainly confess to myself trying to be a better person,” he said, CNN colleague. He spoke when he returned to Allicin Camerata.

He also outlined what he saw as his redemption efforts, including his work at the food bank and “involving trying to become someone whom people can trust again.”

Toobin was also caught up in another scandal, including sexual injustice. In 2008 he soaked in Casey Greenfield, the daughter of his colleague Jeff Greenfield, and tried to persuade him to abort the child. I told the source Please contact us every week.

Greenfield eventually had a child, but she said that Toubin initially refused to admit her father, According to To the New York Times.

Greenfield sued Toubin for child support and custody, the latter being asked in Manhattan Family Court, the Times reported. He finally agreed to take his father’s test. Greenfield eventually gained full custody of the baby.