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Fox Corporation chief legal and policy officer Viet Dinh, who oversaw the network’s legal battle with Dominion Voting Systems that ended in a bruising $787.5 million settlement, is stepping down.
“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,” Lachlan Murdoch, the CEO of Fox Corp., announced on Friday.
Murdoch said Dinh would remain with Fox in a different capacity: “We are grateful that he will continue to serve FOX as Special Advisor where we will benefit from his counsel.”
The major shakeup at Fox News’s parent company comes a few months after the network settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion, the voting tech company that was the subject of 2020 election conspiracy theories spread by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
A New York Times story published in June put a spotlight on Dinh, reporting that his “overly rosy&
The departure is even more notable considering how close Dinh is to Lachlan Murdoch. The former assistant attorney general is godfather to one of the Australian media baron’s sons.