

I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me.

I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers,' he said. 'I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera. Toobin apologized in a statement to Vice, saying he thought he had turned his camera off at the time of the incident. He is also taking a leave of absence from CNN for whom he works on-air as a legal analyst.

The 60-year-old, who has written for the New Yorker for 25 years, is said to have exposed himself while on a video call with staffers from the magazine and New York public radio station WNYC last week. The New Yorker magazine has suspended longtime writer Jeffrey Toobin after he exposed himself and masturbated during a work Zoom call.
