Dinh will take a brand new function as a particular adviser at Fox Information father or mother firm Fox Corp., for which he can be paid $5 million over two years.
Whereas Dinh didn’t carry a big public profile, he has been a key behind-the-scenes participant for the corporate and has been near the Murdoch household, which controls the community. Dinh is the godfather to one among chief government Lachlan Murdoch’s sons.
Dinh has confronted some questions on his dealing with of the defamation lawsuit filed by voting expertise firm Dominion Voting Programs. The corporate sued the community for repeatedly airing false info and conspiracy theories about its voting machines after the 2020 election. Fox Information, after months of disclosures of non-public emails and textual content messages as a part of the case’s discovery course of, ended up settling with Dominion for $787.5 million proper after a Delaware jury had been chosen.
The corporate additionally not too long ago settled a lawsuit alleging a hostile work surroundings filed by a former producer, Abby Grossberg, for $12 million. In keeping with an organization submitting, Fox has spent a complete of $894 million in 2023 on authorized settlements.
Dinh has served as Fox’s chief authorized and coverage officer since 2018.
“I have been privileged to be part of the Fox family for over two decades as a director and officer, and I have especially treasured my relationships with Rupert, Lachlan and our talented colleagues over the years,” he mentioned in a press release. “I look forward to continuing with Fox as Special Advisor, and to returning to my roots of working on multiple ventures and with many clients across a variety of disciplines.”
Dinh’s private communications and statements beneath oath performed a task within the Dominion case. The voting-technology firm argued that Dinh was among the many executives who had been legally accountable for the statements made on Fox that it considered as defamatory.
In an early movement within the case, Dominion highlighted that Dinh had agreed that executives inside the “chain of command” have an obligation “to prevent and correct known falsehoods,” resembling false statements concerning the 2020 election.
Whereas it settled the Dominion case, Fox Information continues to be going through an enormous lawsuit — additionally stemming from protection of the 2020 election — from voting-technology firm Smartmatic. It’s anticipated to go to trial in 2025. Fox didn’t announce a alternative for Dinh on Friday.
