The New York Times on Thursday further detailed a sexual misconduct complaint made against former “Today” show host Matt Lauer following his ouster from NBC.
The paper reported Wednesday, citing an unnamed source “briefed on the network’s handling of the matter,” that NBC had received two additional complaints against Lauer on that day alone.
In its initial reporting, the Times reported that one woman had claimed that Lauer “had summoned her to his office in 2001 and then had sex with her.”
When the article was updated later, the Times detailed the complaint, noting that the former employee had accused Lauer of sexual assault.
“One complaint came from a former employee who said Mr. Lauer had summoned her to his office in 2001, locked the door and sexually assaulted her. She provided her account to The New York Times but declined to let her name be used,” the Times reported. “She told The Times that she passed out and had to be taken to a nurse. She said that she felt helpless because she didn’t want to lose her job, and that she didn’t report the encounter at the time because she felt ashamed.”
Separately, Variety reported Wednesday that allegations against Lauer had included him dropping his pants in front of a female employee in his office, and then reprimanding her when she did not engage with him sexually. Lauer also reportedly gave a colleague a sex toy, which came with an “explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her,” according to the report.
Lauer said in a statement following his firing that “some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed.”
Surprise!
So why did NBC news and Matt Lauer give so much attention and air time to the trumped up Hillary email hog wash?
So why did NBC, CBS, ABC, and the NY Times, and Washington Post allow Trump to attach and lie about the 16 to 30 women that he sexually assaulted over the years?
Sadly, no attention is being paid to those who OWN the media and their history of sexual assaults and rapes. How many women have been paid off by the Koch brothers over the years? We know there have been sveral rape allegations against both brothers and that they have made multi-million dollar secret payments to women.
When the media is owned by creeps and shoe creeps employ creeps, it is no wonder the US is a quickly failing state! Trump is exposing America in so many ways that it is scary…not just his neo-nazi and white suprremacist ways but also his corruption his mysogyny, and his tax cheating.
Trump is exposing America and especially what the Republicans are all about!
Woodwork meet accusers
Am I seeing a pattern here?
Why if I didn’t know better it would appear that most of these pervs are serial pervs
Like alcoholics
One is too many
1000 not enough
Is NBC still trying to claim they knew nothin’ ‘bout nothin’? Good God, as of this time yesterday, it was consensual affairs – now we learn that it was a decade’s worth of sexual harassment and assault, not to mention creating a hostile work environment and causing adverse employment consequences for not giving in to him. What an asshole.
And no, NBC, firing someone quickly when you know the reports are about to become public does not shield you from liability.