One of Fox's most prominent lawyers and a key player in the Dominion settlement is stepping down from his influential role at the company, and will take home a $23 million exit package.Viet Dinh, a key confidant of the company's CEO Lachlan Murdoch, would be leaving his role as the company's chief legal and policy officer at the end of the year. He will stay on at the company as a special advisor.
"We appreciate Viet's many contributions and service to FOX as both a board member of 21st Century Fox and in his role over the last five years as a valued member of FOX's leadership team," Murdoch said.in 2001 for George Bush in response to the 9/11 terror attacks when he was Assistant Attorney General.as the company sold its movie studio 21st Century Fox to Disney for $71 billion.
But Dinh will more likely be remembered for his pivotal role in the Dominion lawsuit which rocked the company earlier this year. for $1.6 billion after the group's news channel raised doubts about the Dominion's voting machines following the 2020 presidential elections.for a much lower sum of $787.5 million in April, just days before the trial was set to begin. It is the largest publicly documented settlement figure for a defamation suit in history.that Fox had a strong free speech argument going in their favor, were the case to have made it to trial.
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