“A spokesperson for the Standard Hotel said on Wednesday that they identified and fired the employee who sold the now-infamous Met Brawl video to TMZ.

According to the AP, the perpetrator was terminated for “breaching the security polices of the hotel and recording the confidential CCTV video” from one of the hotel’s elevators. As the Washington Post points out, these cell phone videos of surveillance tapes have become commonplace.

A rep for the Standard told reporters the hotel turned over “all available information to criminal authorities,” after firing the employee earlier today.”* Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola (TYT University) and Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies) break it down.

*Read more here from Gabrielle Bluestone / Gawker:
http://gawker.com/the-person-who-leaked-the-jay-z-elevator-video-got-caug-1576699590