Former News Corp. editor gets $2.7 million severance

[Gidney N Cloyd]

Source: Chicago Tribune

NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) - News Corp. has given Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of its scandal-ridden News of the World tabloid, quite a severance package -- $2.7 million, use of her company limousine and driver and an office in central London, British newspaper the Guardian reports.

Brooks, a close associate of News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch, resigned in July from her post as CEO of News International, News Corp.'s British publishing division. This followed allegations that she knew about the company's complicity in a major phone-hacking scandal.

For her troubles, Brooks not only received the large payment, but access to the company limo for two years and the pricey office for the same stretch of time.

This hefty settlement for someone so closely linked to the hacking scandal will likely produce another series of questions for James Murdoch, Rupert's son and Brooks' former boss.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-media-newscorptre7a60g4-20111106,0,4999142.story

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I think I'd stay out of the company limo...

[SpiralHawk]

1. Wonderful to see the 1%ers profiting so handsomely

from their unmitigated darkside expression of Republicon Family Cesspool Values (International Variety).
:sarcasm:

[beac]

2. What is she going to do in that office? Report daily and count her hush money?

I hope she gets sued for every one of those 2.7 million and more besides.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I'm sure the shareholders would rather Brooks get the money instead of them.

:sarcasm:

[dipsydoodle]

4. Duplicate LBN from 2 days ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5049784