Criticism has been escalating today (7 November) against star litigator David Boies after The New Yorker reported that the Boies Schiller Flexner chairman, a longtime legal adviser to Harvey Weinstein, contracted with a controversial agency linked with former Israeli Mossad agents to derail the publication of a New York Times article about Weinstein’s alleged predatory conduct with women.

Boies signed a July 2017 contract with Israeli private intelligence agency Black Cube as part of his efforts to protect Weinstein’s reputation, with this move happening as his firm was  separately representing The New York Times in a libel case, The New Yorker reported. Boies was also involved in Weinstein’s relationship with PSOPS, another investigative firm, the magazine said.