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| Serving time in prison is SO much easier when you have 11 million dollars waiting for you on the outside. |
Former newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks received a payout totaling more than 7 million pounds ($11.2 million) following her resignation from Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group last year, the Financial Times said on Tuesday.
Brooks, the woman at the heart of a scandal shaking Rupert Murdoch's media empire and the British government, is awaiting trial next year on multiple charges in relation to phone-hacking by reporters at one of her papers.
The FT cites two people with knowledge of her compensation as saying the payout consisted of cash and pension payments as well as an allowance for legal fees and the use of a chauffeur-driven car.
Two of the people cited by the newspaper said the payout also included substantial claw-back clauses for her former employer, News International.
These entitle News International, the British arm of News Corp., to recover some of the payment from Brooks in certain circumstances, according to a third person familiar with the details of her exit package.
A spokeswoman for News International declined to comment and a spokesman for Brooks could not be reached for immediate comment.
Okay so Brooks was paid over ELEVEN MILLION dollars when she left Murdoch's employ under a cloud of suspicion, however there is a clause which states she must return a portion of this money "in certain circumstances?"
Would those "circumstances" include testifying against her old boss? Because I have to say that it kind of looks that way.
Does it look that way to everybody else, or am I missing something here?
And how does this NOT make both her and her employer look even MORE guilty?
