NYT Fires Lawyer Who Allegedly Spied On Reporters To Protect Harvey Weinstein

The Daily Caller reports:

The New York Times has terminated its relationship with the law firm of Democratic mega-donor David Boies after reports that he worked to prevent NYT reporters from covering sexual assault allegations against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.

“We learned today that the law firm of Boies Schiller and Flexner secretly worked to stop our reporting on Harvey Weinstein at the same time as the firm’s lawyers were representing us in other matters,” the NYT said in a statement Tuesday evening. “We consider this intolerable conduct, a grave betrayal of trust, and a breach of the basic professional standards that all lawyers are required to observe. It is inexcusable and we will be pursuing appropriate remedies.”

“We never contemplated that the law firm would contract with an intelligence firm to conduct a secret spying operation aimed at our reporting and our reporters. Such an operation is reprehensible,” NYT spokeswoman Danielle Rhoades Ha said. “Whatever legalistic arguments and justifications can be made, we should have been treated better by a firm that we trusted.”

Mistakes were made.