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Ex-Google Bigwig Given $90M in Hush Money After Committing Sexual Misconduct: Report

A former Google senior executive has ripped the internet giant after reports surfaced that he was paid a $90 million settlement over a four-year period following his departure from the firm in 2014. So reports The New York Times.

Andy Rubin, who is credited with inventing the Android smartphone software, has blasted the sexual harassment allegations against him. A female employee alleged that Rubin coerced her to give him oral sex in a hotel room a year before he left Google, two company executives told the publication. Rubin, who joined the firm in 2005, is said to have had an extramarital affair with the woman.

After Google learned of the incident and investigated, they found it valid, sourced noted. Larry Page, then Google's chief executive, asked for Rubin to turn in his resignation. He was then paid the $90 million settlement, which worked out to about $2 million every month for four years, two sources said.

Google has, over the decades, compensated two other executives millions, with no legal requirement to do so, and without disclosing any alleged wrongdoing after they were accused of sexual misconduct.

"The New York Times story contains numerous inaccuracies about my employment at Google and wild exaggerations about my compensation," Rubin said in a statement after the report ran. "Specifically, I never coerced a woman to have sex in a hotel room. These false allegations are part of a smear campaign by my ex-wife to disparage me during a divorce and custody battle."

After The New York Times ran its article, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai and Eileen Naughton, vice president for people operations, informed employees in an email that the firm had fired 48 people for sexual harassment in the last two years and that none of those employees received compensation from the firm.

"We are committed to ensuring that Google is a workplace where you can feel safe to do your best work, and where there are serious consequences for anyone who behaves inappropriately," Pichai and Naughton wrote in the email.

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