• by Fern Siegel , November 11, 2020

The New Yorker has fired staff writer Jeffrey Toobin, its longtime political-legal analyst, after a three-week investigation.

He was caught exposing himself on a work Zoom call with magazine staffers and WNYC Radio. Toobin was apparently part of a different video call when the incident occurred.

Toobin, who has been with The New Yorker for 27 years, also tweeted his dismissal.

The former U.S. attorney also served as a legal analyst for CNN. In the 1990s, he was an associate counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel during Iran-Contra.

In an earlier statement to Motherboard, once the incident became public, Toobin said: “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers. 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.”

His most recent book is “True Crimes and Misdemeanors — The Investigation of Donald Trump."