company. they say it s coincidental they continued to pay out women large sums. quince dental? they use euphemisms. these were enhanced severance packages. they have ways of hiding this. this is how these look in a corporate context. they are concealed. but executives involved in brokering those settlements and the women involved all were under the impression that this was to shut them up about complaints of misconduct within this company. here s what andy lack, the chairman of nbc news, said in a companywide letter on october 9th. matt lauer s conduct in 2014 was appalling and reprehensible and we said so at the time. the first moment we learned of it was the night of november 27th, 2017, and he was fired in 24 hours. any suggestion we knew prior to that evening or tried to cover up any aspect of lauer s conduct is false and offensive. how do you square that? obviously, this book documents very clearly that people at a very high level in
police say he killed himself. the marine veteran had served in afghanistan. he made a facebook post before the attack. saying, the only thing you people do after these shootings is hopes and prayers and wonder why these things keep happening. ahead, google answering to the demands of angry employees. changes are coming to the harassment policies after a report detailed years of allegations and big severance packages. at hilton.com,
administration. one would think they know who they want. it has been more than a year since he knew sessions would be fired. maybe this is for reality show purposes. ahead, google answering to the demand of angry employees. changes coming to the poharassmt policies after careers years of ups and big severance packages. what do you look for when you trade?
next tonight, another big story we re following. the worldwide walkout at google. thousands of employees walking off the job today, from singapore to dublin, london and across the u.s. workers protesting the company s handling of sexual harassment complaints. some executives accused of misconduct reportedly receiving millions in severance packages. here s abc s kayna whitworth. time is up! time is up! reporter: in new york city, the sign time s up tech. across the country in san francisco, don t be evil. a reference to google s former motto. coverups have got to go! reporter: the scene repeated as employees in the majority of google s offices around the world protested the company s handling of sexual misconduct allegations. if we don t lead the way, nobody else will. reporter: the walkout coming exactly one week after the new york times reported on a $90 million severance package for andy rubin, the creator of the android software.
deval patrick, being talked about as a possible 2020 presidential candidate. governor, you now work at bain capital s double impact division which focuses on social progress. corey booker and gillibrand met with workers right groups about targeting private equity firms such as bain capital, that would force the firms like bain to fund severance packages. do you find that s a good idea? it might be. i want to look at that legislation. you know, circumstances are different. not every deal works and not every company succeeds. that happens in markets and that s not always because of private equity. i think i don t know senator gillibrand but do know senator booker and know he s smart enough to understand that.