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American lawyer and author

Jeffrey Ross Toobin^[1] (; born May 21, 1960) is an American lawyer, author, blogger, and legal analyst for CNN.^[2][3]

During the Iran–Contra affair, Toobin served as an associate counsel on its investigation at the Department of Justice.

He moved from government and the practice of law into full-time writing during the 1990s, when he published his first books. He wrote for The New Yorker from 1993 to 2020.^[4] Toobin was fired in the fall of 2020 for masturbating on-camera during a Zoom video conference call with co-workers; he apologized for his conduct and stated that he believed his camera was off.^{[5][6][7][8][9]} He continued to serve as legal analyst for CNN for two years.

Toobin has written several books, including accounts of the 1970s Patty Hearst kidnapping and her time with the SLA, the O. J. Simpson murder case, and the Clinton–Lewin