8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (6)
#19341969 at 2023-08-11 21:00:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23753: Pelosi Did Jan6, Anons Knew Edition
Viet Dinh, Fox's top lawyer who oversaw its $787 million Dominion settlement, is stepping down
Fox Corporation on Friday said it had severed ties with its top lawyer, Viet Dinh, in a significant shakeup to its corporate ranks in the aftermath of the company's historic $787 million settlement with voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/11/business/Viet-Dinh-fox/index.html
#13366450 at 2021-04-05 19:01:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16933: We Could Have Given Up, Despaired, We Choose to Keep On Pushing Edition
Is this the man in charge of Fox Corp? CEO Lachlan Murdoch is rumored to have passed control to chief legal officer and godfather of his son after returning to Australia where he's working nocturnal hours until 10am
Fox Corporation CEO Lachlan Murdoch is rumored to have turned control of the company to its chief legal officer - who is also the godfather of his son - after abruptly moving back to Australia last month.
The New York Times published a profile on the chief legal officer, Viet Dinh, on Sunday, which examined the 'sociable and relentless' Republican lawyer's role at Fox Corp.
Lachlan, the son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, left Los Angeles for Australia amid claims that Joe Biden's election made things 'rough' for his family, given Fox Corp's reputation as catering to the GOP.
Fox Corp has publicly insisted that Lachan is still very much in charge of the company and has even been keeping nocturnal hours from Sydney, working from midnight to 10am to stay on an American schedule.
However Fox Corp insiders told the Times that Lachlan's move intensified Dinh's power in the company.
Dinh, 53, met Lachlan at the acclaimed Aspen Institute in 2003 after already having made a name for himself in politics as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy under President George W Bush.
Lachlan later offered Dinh a seat on the Fox Corp board and also asked him to be the godfather to his son as their relationship grew to extend beyond business.
The Times spoke to two former Fox employees and one current and one former Fox News employee familiar with Dinh's role who described him as Lachlan's 'omnipresent right hand'.
The sources said that Dinh doesn't run day-to-day programming but manages the company's political operation and serves as a key voice in setting the corporate agenda.
A Fox Corp spokeswoman did not mince words when approached by the Times for comment about claims that Dinh 'is exercising operational control over Fox's business units' - calling those claims 'false and malicious'.
Dinh also dismissed the claims as 'flat-out false' in a recent interview with legal writer David Lat, whose article about the executive was titled: 'Is Viet Dinh the Most Powerful Lawyer in America?'
'To ascribe any role to me other than my day job, which is overseeing legal, regulatory and government affairs, is not only false, it would mean I have far more time than I actually do,' Dinh told Lat.
'Lachlan hired me for what is very much a full-time job, which I can barely manage to do with 24 hours in the day.'
However, the Times noted that Dinh's salary - which came in at a whopping $24million in 2019 - suggests that he plays a major role in the company.
http://www.cuzzblue.com/2021/04/is-this-man-in-charge-of-fox-corp-ceo.html
#13365519 at 2021-04-05 16:02:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16932: Shaping The Narrative Takes Work, DS Working OT So Should (You) Edition
The Lawyer Behind the Throne at Fox
LOS ANGELES - In early 2019, as the Murdoch family completed the $71 billion sale of 21st Century Fox to Disney, executives at the movie studio learned that someone was reading all their emails.
And not just anyone: Viet Dinh, the Fox Corp.'s chief legal officer and close friend of Fox's CEO, Lachlan Murdoch, had brought on a team of lawyers to investigate "the potential improper use of Fox data" by top 21st Century Fox executives he suspected of leaking to Disney while the terms were still being hammered out, a Fox spokeswoman said. The studio's president, Peter Rice, and the company's general counsel, Gerson Zweifach, protested that they were merely conducting normal transition planning - and that Dinh was being so paranoid he might blow up the transaction.
The episode didn't scuttle the deal. But the previously unreported conflict between the studio executives and Dinh, a sociable and relentless Republican lawyer who was the chief architect in 2001 of the anti-terrorism legislation known as the Patriot Act, offers a rare glimpse into the opaque power structure of Rupert Murdoch's world. The nonagenarian mogul exercises immense power, through News Corp and the Fox Corp., in driving a global wave of right-wing populism. But basic elements of how his media companies run remain shrouded in mystery.
In the case of the Fox Corp., the questions of who is in charge and what the future holds are particularly hazy. The company, minus its studio, is now a mid-size TV company adrift in a landscape of giants like Disney and AT&T that control everything from cellular phone networks to streaming platforms, film and television. Fox's profits are dominated by Fox News. Lachlan Murdoch's more liberal brother, James, who no longer holds an operational role in the family businesses, has made clear he would like to see a change.
And since the studio sold, a person who knows Lachlan Murdoch said, Los Angeles has become a less hospitable place to him and his family. If you're a studio boss with actors and directors on payroll, Hollywood can overlook your embarrassing right-wing cable interests. But after the Disney sale, and after the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, Murdoch risked becoming a social pariah. James Murdoch didn't help when he complained to The Financial Times about "outlets that propagate lies to their audience."
Last month, Lachlan Murdoch moved his family to Sydney, Australia, an unlikely base for a company whose main assets are American. The move has intensified the perception - heightened when he stood by as Fox News hosts misinformed their audience about COVID-19 last year - that Murdoch does not have a tight grip on the reins. The company takes pains to rebut that perception: The Fox spokeswoman told me that Murdoch is so committed that he has adopted a nocturnal lifestyle, working midnight to 10 a.m. Sydney time. (She also said it would be "false and malicious" to suggest that Dinh is exercising operational control over Fox's business units.) It's such a disorienting situation that one senior Fox employee went so far as to call me last week to ask if I knew anything about succession plans. I promised I would tell him if I figured it out.
But Dinh, 53, was ready to step in, and indeed has been seen internally as the company's power center since before Murdoch headed across the globe. Dinh's ascent caps an unlikely turn in his career that began when he met Lachlan Murdoch at an Aspen Institute event in 2003. The Murdoch heir later asked him to both fill a seat on the company's board and to be godfather to his son. ("He couldn't find any other Catholics," Dinh joked to The New York Observer in 2006.)
Two former Fox employees and one current and one former Fox News employee familiar with his role painted him as the omnipresent and decisive right hand of a CEO who is not particularly hands-on. (They spoke only on the condition they not be named because Fox keeps a tight grip on its public relations.) While Dinh is not running day-to-day programming, he manages the political operation of a company that is the central pillar of Republican politics, and he's a key voice on corporate strategy who has played a role in Fox's drive to acquire and partner its way into the global online gambling industry.
In a recent interview with legal writer David Lat - headlined "Is Viet Dinh the Most Powerful Lawyer in America?" - Dinh called suggestions in this column and in The Financial Times that he's more than a humble in-house counsel "flat-out false."
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/lawyer-behind-throne-fox-114655987.html
#6286211 at 2019-04-23 18:20:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8038: Extraordinarily Smart People Serving Our Country Edition
"One of America's largest tech giants has hired a new general counsel who was responsible for "helping craft" the most powerful law ever enacted to spy on American citizens.
"Facebook announced today that Jennifer Newstead will join the company as General Counsel, overseeing the company's global legal functions," said a company statement.
The Verge did a deep dive into Newstead's history, and it turns out that Newstead was an architect of the Patriot Act, implemented by President George W. Bush after 9/11, which allowed the government broadly-defined power to spy on Americans.
"Her enhanced leadership duties and her excellent service on a range of issues - including helping craft the new U.S.A. Patriot Act to protect the United States against terror - have earned her this important distinction. She is first among equals," Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh said in a 2002 Department of Justice press release."
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/meet-facebooks-new-general-counsel-who-helped-write-the-patriot-act/
#3393986 at 2018-10-08 15:40:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4301: Breezy Autumn Morning Edition
Hope Hicks coming to Los Angeles….
Hope Hicks, former right-hand woman to President Donald Trump and his trusted communications chief, is set to join Fox as an executive vice president and Chief Communications Officer.
According to a press release, Hicks will join "New Fox", the company left following Twenty-First Century Fox's upcoming merger with Disney.
Lachlan Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, will take the reigns at New Fox as chairman and CEO. The new company will include its major TV channels: Fox News, Fox Business Network, Fox broadcasting and sports networks FS1 and FS2.
The move is sure to raise even more questions about the cozy relationship between Fox News and the Trump administration. Bill Shine, a former Fox News executive, replaced Hicks as White House communications director in July.
Hicks will report to Viet Dinh, Fox Chief Legal and Policy Officer, and will be based in Los Angeles.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/hope-hicks-joins-new-fox-as-chief-communications-officer/
#381847 at 2018-02-15 05:44:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #469: They Will All PAY THE PRICE Edition
>>380036
More on Chertoff from 2 breads ago.
http:/ /www.whale.to/b/bollyn07oct26.html
Michael Chertoff's Childhood in Israel
by Christopher Bollyn
26 October 2007
When the Israeli national Michael Chertoff, became the new head of the Department of Homeland Security in February 2005, I wrote an article in which criticized the U.S. Senate and controlled press for not addressing the fact that he is an Israeli national.
Michael Chertoff, an Israeli national through his mother - the first El Al hostess and Mossad agent, is Secretary of Homeland Security and was the Asst. Attorney General responsible for the Criminal Division of the Dept. of Justice from 2001 to 2003.
CHIEF OF U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY
"On February 15, 2005, Michael Chertoff, an apparent dual national with Israeli roots, was sworn in as the second Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The new 'homeland security czar,' who oversees the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, seems to be hiding his own dual-national status - with the cooperation of the controlled press," I wrote at the time.
It is absolutely outrageous that a foreign national should be in charge of U.S. "Homeland Security." The fact that Chertoff's mother was the first hostess on El Al and involved in secret Mossad missions is all the more troubling.
Michael Chertoff, as Asst. Attorney General of the United States in charge of the Criminal Division of the Dept. of Justice, personally supervised and controlled the entire FBI non-investigation of 9-11. Chertoff is the responsible person for the obstruction of justice and blocking access to the evidence since September 11, 2001.
Chertoff is the co-author, along with Viet Dinh, of the USA PATRIOT Act, signed into law on October 26, 2001. As head of the Justice Department's criminal division, he advised the Central Intelligence Agency on the legality of torture techniques in coercive interrogation sessions.
From 2001 to 2003, he headed the criminal division of the Department of Justice, leading the prosecution against terrorist suspect Zacarias Moussaoui. In this role, Chertoff was central in creating the 9-11 myth by providing the list of the 19 Arab suspects and supervising the FBI's confiscation of evidence and the non-investigation of 9-11. Why have the American people tolerated this Israeli corruption of the 9-11 investigation? When will it end?
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8chan/8kun CBTS Posts (1)
#41413 at 2017-12-06 05:35:28 (UTC+1)
CBTS GENERAL #46: Apply the Keystone, Paint the Picture
>>41370
You might want to dig into a connection between Hussy and Viet Dinh (asst. Atty Gen under G Dubya and wiki quote 'chief architect of the patriot act), looks like they were both at Harv and involved in the Harv Law Review in the same year. Nice work btw.