After ESPN reported late last night that Mets GM Jared Porter had been accused of sexual harassment and had acknowledged sending explicit images and to a female reporter in 2016, the Mets have terminated him per a tweet from Steve Cohen this morning.
We have terminated Jared Porter this morning . In my initial press conference I spoke about the importance of integrity and I meant it.There should be zero tolerance for this type of behavior.
— Steven Cohen (@StevenACohen2) January 19, 2021
His firing comes merely hours after the ESPN story was released detailing the months of harassment that Porter engaged in, including sending 62 unanswered text messages over the course of several weeks to the anonymous former reporter, with the final messages including unsolicited explicit images.