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( Reuters) -Fox Corp stated on Friday that Chief Legal Officer Viet Dinh was stepping down, a prominent exit that follows its $787.5 million settlement in April of a character assassination claim submitted by Rule Ballot Systems over its 2020 U.S. election protection.
Dinh, who will leave the function at the end of 2023, signed up with Fox in 2018 and headed its legal and compliance departments throughout the months-long legal fight stimulated by the network’s protection of incorrect claims that Rule rigged the election.
The relocation marks another significant departure at the network considering that the settlement. Premier host Tucker Carlson accepted part methods with Fox in April, simply days after the legal resolution.
As part of a separation contract, Dinh will get a lump-sum money payment of $23 million, Fox stated. He will end up being an unique advisor to the business after leaving the function of legal head.
He was a previous U.S. attorney general of the United States under President George W Bush and a designer of the Patriot Act, the U.S. nationwide security law enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
He established Bancroft PLLC, a little Washington, D.C.-based lawsuits company understood for promoting conservative causes that was obtained by Kirkland & & Ellis in 2016. Dinh’s customers as a defense attorney consisted of billionaire property designer Ng Lap Seng, who was founded guilty of bribery in 2017.
In June, Fox Corp likewise settled a claim by previous Fox News manufacturer Abby Grossberg, who declared gender discrimination and implicated the network’s attorneys of pushing her to make deceptive declarations in the Rule Ballot Systems case.