NBC Receives at Least 2 New Complaints About Matt Lauer<br />“On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior<br />in the workplace by Matt Lauer,” Andrew Lack, the NBC News chairman, said in a memo to the staff.<br />The fast-moving national reckoning over sexual harassment in the workplace toppled another television news star on Wednesday when NBC fired<br />Matt Lauer, the co-host of its most profitable franchise, “Today,” after an allegation of inappropriate sexual behavior with a subordinate.<br />“While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years he’s been at NBC News,<br />we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.”<br />In a division-wide meeting with his staff later in the morning, Mr.<br />On Wednesday morning, Ari Wilkenfeld, a civil rights lawyer with the firm Wilkenfeld, Herendeen & Atkinson in Washington,<br />said he represented the woman who had made the initial complaint to NBC, but declined to publicly identify her.<br />“While I am encouraged by NBC’s response to date, I am in awe of the courage my client showed to be the first to raise a complaint<br />and to do so without making any demands other than the company do the right thing.”<br />The woman met with reporters from The Times earlier Monday, but said she was not ready to discuss it publicly.<br />NBC News told its staff that it was firing Mr. Lauer some 34 hours after the woman<br />and her lawyer visited the network headquarters in Midtown Manhattan to share details of her interactions with Mr. Lauer with company executives.
