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London – The BBC has breached its own policies on severance payments "too often" and without good reason, exceeding contractual entitlements and putting public trust at risk, Britain's National Audit Office said in a report published Monday. The spending watchdog found that the severance payments for BBC managers have overall provided "poor value for money." It cited the controversial severance pay for BBC director general George Entwistle, who resigned last fall amid the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal, as one example of insufficient oversight of payouts to top managers. Photos: 10 Highly-Paid Entertainment CEOs "Decisions to award severance payments that
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