https://www.thewrap.com/fired-la-times-publisher-got-2-5-millions-settlement-after-secretly-recording-tribune-boss-jewish-cabal-comments-report/
The Los Angeles Times was restive on Thursday after a bombshell NPR story on Wednesday reporting that former Times editor and publisher Davan Maharaj had secretly recorded Michael Ferro — then chairman of tronc, the paper’s parent company — calling L.A. billionaire Eli Broad a member of a (((“Jewish cabal”))) that controlled Los Angeles.
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Ferro’s leadership of Tribune Publishing was deeply divisive, with the executive overseeing waves of layoffs and cost-cutting across various properties as well as the renaming of the company to the widely ridiculed tronc.
He was ultimately forced to step down from the company in March of 2018 after accusations of sexual misconduct surfaced dating from his tenure at a Chicago investment firm. He still remains the largest single investor in Tribune Publishing, owning more than a quarter of its shares and is a close business associate of his successor on the job, Justin Dearborn.