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On April 24, 2017, in the archive photo, Fox News co-chair Bill Shine, right, leaves a New York restaurant.(Photo: Mark Lennihan, AP)

WASHINGTON – Bill Shine has received more than $ 15 million in severance pay and bonuses from Fox News before playing a key role in the White House as Senior Communications Officer CNBC report.

The revelations come from a financial report revealing that he had earned $ 8.4 million in severance pay and that it was due to bonuses for the years 2018 and 2019, evaluated about $ 3.5 million a year, according to CNBC, who got a copy of the form.

Senior executive at Fox, Shine left the company in 2017 after a scandal at the news agency regarding a series of complaints of sexual harassment. He left office 10 months after the dismissal of former Fox president Roger Ailes following allegations of harassment. Shine joined the White House in July.

Shine himself has never been accused of harassment, but lawsuits have accused him of having helped to conceal Wings' behavior and to have ignored the claims of women who have been arrested. Were manifested.

He denied any wrongdoing.

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CNBC reports that the amount paid to Shine was relatively small compared to other Fox News executives who left the company in the midst of controversy. Wings would have been paid about $ 40 million in a settlement when he left the company in 2016.

Former presenter Bill O-Reilly, accused of sexual harassment and pouring millions of dollars into settler women to silence some of the claims, would have been paid a $ 25 million settlement when he left the company in 2017.

Shine joined the White House as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff of Communications. He took over the role previously held by Hope Hicks, Anthony Scaramucci and Sean Spicer.

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