Shortly before dusk on the east coast, on Tuesday evening, journalists began chattering about a New York Times piece that was soon to drop and perhaps gesture toward the next front in the Jeff Zucker-CNN-Jason Kilar imbroglio. And then there it was—a quintuple-bylined investigation that laid out the now-familiar timeline of events and added one critical new dimension to the story: in the heat of the #MeToo uprising, Chris Cuomo had used the CNN platform to try to placate a would-be accuser. His journalistic malpractice contributed to Zucker’s decision to fire him and helped set into motion the series of events that would ultimately lead to the ouster of both Zucker and his top aide and romantic partner, Allison Gollust.

The interest in the Times piece was short-lived, however. Less than an hour later, Kilar dropped his own bomb. In a memo to all CNN staff, Kilar said the investigation into the Brothers Cuomo had unearthed violations of company policies, “including CNN’s News Standards and Practices,” not just by Cuomo, but by Zucker and Gollust, as well. Gollust had resigned from the company, he announced. Kilar signed off with the now familiar refrain that he had “taken the right actions” and made “the right decisions,” but offered no further details about the violations in question. And so the staff at CNN, the broader media industry and the general public were left with nothing but questions and assumptions about an already vexing scandal.