Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

by Ronan Farrow

All year, he’d been part of the brain trust around Hillary Clinton.

By the end of the year, Weinstein had raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Clinton.

which put a further $2 million in her campaign’s coffers.

I’d liked Weinstein the one time I’d met him, at an event hosted by the CBS News anchor Charlie Rose.

She’d grown up in the Children of God cult in the Italian countryside,

Ben Affleck, seeing her visibly distraught immediately after the incident, and hearing where she’d just come from, and replying, “God damn it, I told him to stop doing this.”

I could feel that the more I was freaking out, the more he was excited.”

With painful frequency, stories of abuse by powerful people are also stories of a failure of board culture.

Boies’s law firm represented the New York Times.

“I like to be able to read the news and not think somebody’s holding a gun to the reporter’s head deciding what they write,” he said. “Coming from a society where the news was controlled by those in power, I never, ever want to allow this to happen to the country that gave me and my wife and my son a chance.”