Corvo had dealt with tough stories about sexual assault allegations before. In 1999, during Andy Lack’s previous tenure at NBC News, Corvo had overseen the network’s interview with Juanita Broaddrick, who had accused Bill Clinton of rape twenty-one years earlier. The network had reviewed the interview for a little more than a month after it was recorded, airing it only after Broaddrick, frustrated, had taken the story to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. “If Dorothy Rabinowitz hadn’t come to interview me, I don’t think NBC would ever have played it,”
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