The Standard Hotel employee that sold the elevator footage, sold it for $250,000. Too bad he got fired. The employee used their phone to record the footage playing on a CCTV monitor.
HuffPo says that The Standard fired the employee and turned all evidence over to the cops:
The Standard Hotel said the person had been terminated for “breaching the security policies of the hotel and recording the confidential CCTV video.”
The hotel said after the video was first aired that it was “shocked and disappointed” by the security breach. It said Wednesday that it will turn over “all available information to criminal authorities.”
Will he lose that $250k?