Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
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in some sort of Brazilian sex romp. (If only my life were so exciting.)
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😂
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In the end, the employees said, Jonathan’s routine had been so boring the subcontractor surveilling him had given up.
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Bahahahaha. 😂😂😂💀
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“I’m interesting!” Jonathan said, when I told him. “I am a very interesting person! I went to an escape room!”
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Bless his heart. 😂❤
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AMI promised to “commit no crimes whatsoever” for three years.
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Good luck with that. And why not "never again??"
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Dylan Howard appeared to have more interest in the man’s penis than any other person on the planet.)
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Ew, yuck, why??
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a $1 million bat mitzvah.
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😲😲😲
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practically exploding with schadenfreude,
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😂😂😂
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more than ninety.
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❗❗❗
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she’d been caught carrying drugs.
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Well then of course she deserves to be raped! 🙄😡
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she’d never been sexually assaulted “because I would never put myself in that position.”
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Oh wtf, you ignorant cow.
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he’d already suffered.
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Not as much as his victims it would seem
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“designed to be traceable back to me.”
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Back to Ronan or Ostrovskiy?
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“Funny, I have the same one,” I said.
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Haha! Good one!
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West Face Capital and critics of AmTrust Financial Services,
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I'm lost...
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On his luggage was a tag bearing the name “ALMOG” and a home address in Israel.
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Seems very spy-like 🙄
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be polygraphed immediately.
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Uh what happens if you fail the polygraph?? 😲
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He had already tried the FBI, only to be passed between skeptical agents who finally hung up.
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WTG, guys. 🙄
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Ostrovskiy got a lawyer—John Tye, the same whistle-blower attorney I consulted—and began the process of volunteering to be a witness.
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On yay, everyone wins! (I hope.)
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“loved by many, many people here.”
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Certainly not the ones he abused.
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the breach was of professional, not criminal, standards of conduct.
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WHAT is wrong with this guy??
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unaware of any complaints about Lauer until two days before,
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BULLLLLshit
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“Well, if the press would stop covering it, it will go away,” Harris said.
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There was a pause, then still another investigative journalist said, “But we are the press.”
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He had given one colleague a sex toy, with an explicit note about how he hoped to use it on her. He’d played “fuck/marry/kill” games on open mics during commercial breaks.
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Why are men so awful??
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included a reference to a sex act between Lauer and Ann Curry,
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Joke or real??
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“The whole theme was that he does the show and then he has sex with people, with employees,” Joe Scarborough said on air.
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On his show??
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She passed out.
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OH...MY...GOD...
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In the years after 2011 or 2012—the time frame in which Harris claimed NBC hadn’t settled with any employees over harassment issues—the network in fact brokered nondisclosure agreements with at least seven women
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Why am I even mildly surprised a lawyer would lie?
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“enhanced severance,”
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Wow. For their "enhanced" experience in the workplace??
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“I would walk into work with a knot in my stomach. I would come home and cry.” After she declined the advances, she felt she received fewer assignments.
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A lawyer she consulted noted that the delayed departure prevented her from raising harassment claims due to their statutes of limitations.
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Oh my God.
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When Lauer took out his iPhone and started snapping pictures,
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Ulterior motive? Proof of her drunkenness later?
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When she woke up, blood was everywhere, soaked through her underwear, soaked through her sheets.
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All I can keep saying is oh my God.
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She didn’t know that control of Peacock Productions, specifically, had once been handed over to Corvo’s accuser.
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As hush "money" or what? I don't understand.
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Vieira was distraught. She blamed herself for not doing more to protect Nevils,
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Phew I guess.
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throwing your cunt at a married man,”
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Oh wow. That's a new one on me.
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Lester Holt asked skeptically, “Does the punishment fit the crime?”
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Aw come on, Lester! Maybe he still thought it was the affair NBC purported it to be?
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The network proposed a script she would have to read, suggesting that she had left to pursue other endeavors, that she was treated well, and that NBC News was a positive example of how to handle sexual harassment.
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Oh wow.
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Chris Matthews,
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Him too??
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Tom Brokaw
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Ohhhh noooo. Not all men? Apparently, YES ALL men
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spike
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This parlance has been confusing/bothering me there whole book. From context, it seems to mean "trash."
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I still just wanted my job back.
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It would be so hypocritical to work for a news org that serially covers-up sexual misconduct.
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serial misconduct at CBS:
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I guess it's quite literally everywhere. 😟
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I told my agents to drop negotiations.
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YES, Ronan. 👏👏👏
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“These people are insidious,” one anchor wrote. “I’m so angry.”
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called Maddow, who listened, and said no one tells her how to run her show.
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YESSSSS, Rachel.
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a call he made.
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Why did Noah even call Ronan?
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“I’ve become the poster boy for this,”
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And whose fucking fault is that? Well deserved, my boy.
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Tucker Carlson had sat in front of a picture of Oppenheim and called for his resignation.
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If Tucker Carlson is calling for your resignation, you got a problem.
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He appeared to relish the chance to attack a mainstream outlet, Hollywood liberals, and a sexual predator all at once.
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I'm surprised the didn't orgasm.