Toobin has provided legal analysis on numerous high-profile cases. In 1994, Toobin published the story in The New Yorker that the legal team in O.J. Simpson`s criminal trial planned to accuse Mark Fuhrman of gathering evidence. [16] Toobin provided an analysis of Michael Jackson`s 2005 child abuse trial,[17] the O.J. Simpson civil case and attorney Kenneth Starr`s investigation into President Bill Clinton. In 2000, he received an Emmy Award for his cover of the Elián González Custody saga. On June 10, 2021, Toobin returned to CNN as chief legal analyst. He described his behavior as „deeply stupid and indefensible” and said he „doesn`t think other people could see it,” but admitted that was not a defense for his behavior. He said his time out of the air was spent „trying to be a better person,” working on his next book about the Oklahoma City bombing, getting therapy and working at a food bank.
[24] Jeffrey Toobin said Friday he would leave CNN, where he most recently served as chief legal analyst, ending a 20-year stint on the network, making hardline comments and suffering a setback over a scandal in which he accidentally exposed himself to colleagues during a video call. After three years as an assistant U.S. attorney, Toobin resigned from the U.S. Attorney`s Office in Brooklyn, where he had gone after working for Walsh and had abandoned „the practice of law.” [ref. needed] He joined The New Yorker in 1993 and became a legal analyst for ABC in 1996. Toobin joined CNN in 2002 as a legal analyst,[16] In 2003, he got the first interview with Martha Stewart about insider trading allegations against her. [2] Jeffrey Toobin, a longtime CNN legal analyst who was embroiled in a scandal for exposing himself to his New Yorker colleagues during a Zoom meeting, announced Friday that he was leaving the network. Jeffrey Toobin, the legal analyst and veteran writer who has spoken out on cases and courts for CNN since 2002, appears to have made his closing statement to Warner Bros. Discovery.However, with the expected staff cuts at CNN`s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, Toobin has apparently become redundant, especially since the news network has no shortage of legal analysts. Jeffrey Ross Toobin[1] (born May 21, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, blogger and former legal analyst for CNN. He left CNN on September 4, 2022. [2] It`s still unclear whether Toobin`s contract with CNN has expired, but the release appears to be the result of a mutual agreement. CNN President Jeff Zucker said he did not disclose a relationship with another executive uncovered during an investigation into Chris Cuomo. Toobin has been with CNN for 20 years. He made his farewell public in a tweet. Toobin made headlines in 2020 after accidentally exposing himself to colleagues at The New Yorker and WNYC during a Zoom call. He was suspended and eventually fired by The New Yorker and expelled from CNN at the time of the incident.
Toobin was born in New York City in 1960 to an American Jewish family,[9] the son of Marlene Sanders, a former correspondent for ABC News and CBS News, and Jerome Toobin, a news producer. His younger brother Mark, born in 1967 with Down syndrome, lived apart from the family.[10] [3] In a letter sent to colleagues on Friday, Toobin revealed that he was parting ways with CNN, which supported him in good times and bad. CNN put Toobin on leave in the fall of 2020 after he admitted to exposing himself during a video call with employees of The New Yorker, where he had worked since 1993. Toobin and Condé Nast parted ways, but CNN returned its employee to the air in June 2021 after a month-long vacation. When he resurfaced, he told CNN host Alisyn Camerota, „I hope to be a better person both off camera and off camera.” Toobin has been married to Amy McIntosh for over 30 years and has two children. „I wanted to let you know that after twenty years, I decided to leave CNN after my vacation. It was great to spend my last day on the air, like so many others before, with my friends in the Sit room, AC360 and Don Lemon Tonight. It was a privilege (and fun) to be your colleague,” Toobin wrote. CNN`s work is extremely important, and I know you will continue to do so with the same passion and intelligence as always.
In the interview, Toobin also apologized to his wife and family, the people who participated in the Zoom call that day, and his colleagues. In 1986, Toobin married Amy Bennett McIntosh,[25] whom he met in college while they were working at the Harvard Crimson. She graduated from Harvard in 1980, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School,[1][11] and has held leadership positions at Verizon Communications and Zagat Survey. [26] They have two adult children, a daughter and a son. [26] But Toobin was only threatened with a suspension at CNN, where he was allowed to return to the air after eight months. Upon his return, he described the incident as „an embarrassing and stupid mistake.” On October 19, 2020, Toobin was suspended by The New Yorker after masturbating in front of the camera during a Zoom video call between New Yorkers and WNYC radio staff. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] CNN stated that Toobin „asked for a break while dealing with a personal issue that we granted.” Toobin claimed the incident was not intentional, saying in a statement: „I made an embarrassing stupid mistake because I thought I was off camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and colleagues.
[21] The following month, he was fired after an internal investigation by the parent organization Condé Nast of The New Yorker. [22] New York Public Radio, owner of WNYC, has banned Toobin indefinitely from its shows and podcasts. [3] Toobin began freelancing for The New Republic while studying law. After passing the bar exam, he worked as a trainee lawyer for a federal judge, and then as an associate attorney for independent counsel Lawrence Walsh during the Iran-Contra case and the Oliver North criminal trial. He then worked as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn. [13] „My friends, I have decided that after 20 years I will leave [CNN] after my vacation,” Toobin wrote on Twitter. „It was great to spend my last day on the air with my buddies Wolf [Blitzer], Anderson [Cooper] and Don [Lemon].” Toobin`s analysis has not been unwavering and he has become something of a bogeyman of some conservatives for his frank comments about former President Donald Trump. Toobin, a lawyer, became a famous writer over the years, and one of his books became the basis for a popular FX series about the trial of disgraced football star O.J.Simpson. During the Iran-Contra case, he was an associate lawyer at the Department of Justice.