Fox Chief Legal Officer Viet Dinh to step down months after Dominion settlement

Fox Corp. Chief Legal and Policy Officer Viet Dinh will step down from his post, months after the group agreed to pay a $787.5 million settlement to Dominion Voting Systems.

The departure comes after Dinh advised the band through the lawsuit with the voting machines company, which was halted just short of a trial with the April resolution. The company has continued to feel the fallout since.

Dominion hit Fox with a defamation lawsuit arguing its networks “intentionally and falsely” blamed the assembly for the 2020 election loss of former President Donald Trump to President Joe Biden by airing unsubstantiated claims that Power’s machines rigged the election.

While Fox agreed to the settlement, its hosts weren’t required to talk about the lawsuit or detect any public apology for on-air statements.

Days after the settlement was reached, Fox ousted primetime host Tucker Carlson, who has since started his own put to shame on X, the website formerly known as Twitter. Since then, Jesse Watters has become the replacement for the same primetime assignment Carlson once held.

Carlson and Dinh were among the Fox anchors and executives who were questioned as part of the lawsuit. Depositions, emails, textbooks and other correspondence were part of the reams of evidence released before the settlement.

Leading up to the trial, Dominion had been demanding the court to compel Fox’s top brass, including Dinh, to appear for in-person testimony. The judge presiding over the case utter in the weeks before the trial’s start date that he could compel executives to testify.

Dinh joined the visitors in the top legal role in 2018 and since then has led all of its legal, compliance and regulatory matters, in addition to overseeing government incidents.

He will step down effective Dec. 31 and become a special advisor to the company.

“We appreciate Viet’s many contributions and amenities 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 span,” said Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch in a news release. “We are grateful that he will continue to serve FOX as Special Advisor where we ordain benefit from his counsel.”