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JEFFREY Toobin was a CNN analyst who was suspended from the network for an indecent Zoom mishap.

On June 10, 2021, Toobin made his first CNN appearance since the scandal and admitted he “wasn’t thinking.”

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How old is Jeffrey Toobin?

Jeffrey Toobin is a legal analyst for CNN, and formerly the New Yorker.

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Born May 21, 1960, Toobin is 61-years-old.

He graduated from Harvard Law and once served on the associate counsel in the Department of Justice.

He moved from the government to writing in the 1990s.

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Toobin famously covered the OJ Simpson trial for the New Yorker and was hired as a staff writer.

He turned his coverage of the case into a book that prompted the FX series The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story in 2016.

What did Jeffrey Toobin do?

During a Zoom call held on October 15, 2020, Toobin, 61, was caught masturbating.

The meeting was about a presidential election podcast for WNYC and The New Yorker.

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Toobin allegedly angled the computer camera, touched himself, and blew kisses at someone who wasn’t one of his coworkers, his colleagues said.

Shortly after the incident, Toobin apologized in a statement saying, “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera.

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“I apologize to my wife, family, friends, and co-workers.”

New Yorker editor David Remnick, issued a statement to staff in regards to the incident saying: “As you may have read in various news reports today, one of our writers, Jeff Toobin, was suspended after an incident on a Zoom call last week.

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“Please be assured that we take such matters seriously and that we are looking into it. Best, David.”

Shortly afterwards the writer was fired from the New Yorker after 27 years.

Toobin, was not fired from his CNN job as a senior legal analyst but was granted a leave of absence until June 10, 2021- a source had revealed at the time that he was “too good to fire.”

Is Jeffrey Toobin back at CNN?

While the New Yorker fired Toobin after the scandal, CNN took a different approach.

Toobin, who joined CNN in 2002, was not fired from his job as a senior legal analyst but was granted a leave of absence until June 10, 2021.

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A CNN statement said: “Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted.”

A source had revealed at the time that he was “too good to fire”.

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They said: “He is one of the biggest faces on the network,” and “too valuable of a commodity” to be let go.

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Toobin was able to return to the network for an interview with Alisyn Camerota.

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The legal analyst, who is married to Amy McIntosh, revealed he apologized for his mistake and is trying to make amends.