Are the Dominos Staring to Fall at NBC?

When Linda Vester heard that Andy Lack was out at NBC, her first reaction was, “Thank God, the guy is a cancer.”

Vester was a foreign correspondent at the network starting in 1989, before she became a correspondent for Weekend Today and anchored News at Sunrise. She left NBC for Fox in 1999, where she worked until 2005.

Vester came forward to the Washington Post about an incident involving longtime NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw. She claimed he forcibly kissed her on two occasions in the 1990s. Brokaw denied he had every acted inappropriately with her.

Word is that the New York State Attorney General’s Office is probing NBC and it’s management.

Vester says that she said she was connected to the AG’s office via feminist advocacy group UltraViolet after the publication of Ronan Farrow’s book, which included horrific new details about allegations against Lauer and also a possible cover-up from above, going straight up to Lack.

The AG’s office asked if she would talk to investigators about her own experience and connect them with other people with information about NBC. She sat down for her interview in January; Megyn Kelly, Brooke Nevils, who accused Lauer of sexual assault, and Addie Zinone, who accused him of abuse of power, have also reportedly participated.

NBC News declined to comment on the AG probe, while NBCUniversal said it was “unaware” of any such investigation into the company.

“I would really be speculating,” Vester demurs, when asked about what investigators may have learned in those conversations. But she said she has heard there were more men than just Lack named by those interviewed — as far as she knows, several who are still at the company.

It appears Andy Lack might just be the first domino.

Stay tuned….

H/T The Cut

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