When Donald Trump installed former Fox co-president Bill Shine as deputy chief of staff in charge of communications (allegedly at the recommendation of Sean Hannity), taxpayers got someone who was literally still on the Fox News payroll at the same time.
From Jane Mayer’s must-read article in The New Yorker:
With Shine, the Fox and White House payrolls actually do overlap. The Hollywood Reporter obtained financial-disclosure forms revealing that Fox has been paying Shine millions of dollars since he joined the Administration. Last year, he collected the first half of a seven-million-dollar bonus that he was owed after resigning from Fox; this year, he will collect the remainder. That sum is in addition to an $8.4-million severance payment that he received upon leaving the network. In December, four Democratic senators sent a letter to the White House counsel’s office, demanding proof that Fox’s payments to Shine don’t violate federal ethics and conflict-of-interest statutes.
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