According to a bombshell story by The Daily Beast, a top lawyer at NBC News, threatened to smear Ronan Farrow if he continued to report on the Harvey Weinstein expose.

????Ronan Farrow ex-producer says NBC News executives resisted the pair’s efforts to report the Harvey Weinstein story.????A story by the New York Times details Rich McHugh’s claims that “the very highest levels of NBC" worked to kill the story before Farrow eventually left the network and published the story under a byline in The New Yorker.????NBC News has denied the allegations saying that Farrow and McHugh's story was not reportable at the time that Farrow decided to leave the network.????And A spokesperson for NBC News, speaking on the condition of anonymity, also vigorously denied those allegations claiming they were “Absolutely false.” ????McHugh also told the Times that the "resistance" he experienced from NBC News executives amounted to “a massive breach of journalistic integrity.”????More than 70 women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct, including rape.

He’s facing several sexual assault charges in Manhattan.????Farrow went on to win the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service based on his reporting.??