And I found more recently when I dug into the Cohen story that for all Mr. Farrow's attraction to screenplay-ready narratives, he missed one that was made for this moment. The real story of John Fry, the I.R.S. employee who leaked Mr. Cohen's records, went like this: Amid the swirl of the scandal involving Stormy Daniels, Mr. Avenatti, her lawyer, took to Twitter one day in May 2018, and demanded that the Treasury Department release Mr. Cohen's records.

— Is Ronan Farrow Too Good to Be True?, Ben Smith in The New York Times