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11 Jan 2020 8:43 AM GMT

Google Chief Legal Officer Quits Over Sexual Misconduct

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[ By Bobby Anthony ]Google’s parent company Alphabet's Chief Legal Officer David Drummond has quit after alleged sexual misconduct with a subordinate in his workplace.Drummond joined Google way back in 1998 and spent 18 years as the company's top lawyer, working closely with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin who have also moved on, handing over the reins of the company to Sundar...

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David-Drummond

Google’s parent company Alphabet's Chief Legal Officer David Drummond has quit after alleged sexual misconduct with a subordinate in his workplace.

Drummond joined Google way back in 1998 and spent 18 years as the company's top lawyer, working closely with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin who have also moved on, handing over the reins of the company to Sundar Pichai.

In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company stated, “On January 10, 2020, Alphabet Inc announced that David Drummond has informed the company that he will be retiring from Alphabet, effective as of January 31, 2020”.

“With Larry and Sergey now leaving their executive roles at Alphabet, the company is entering an exciting new phase, and I believe that it's also the right time for me to make way for the next generation of leaders,” read Drummond's internal memo.

“As a result, after careful consideration, I have decided to retire at the end of this month”.

However, in a startling allegation in August 2019, a former Google lawyer had claimed that “blatant womanizing and philandering” was commonplace among some Google executives and its Chief Legal Officer David Drummond who had an affair with her – resulting in a baby born in 2007 – cheated on her.

Writing in a post on Medium, Jennifer Blakely had alleged Drummond was well aware that their relationship was in violation of Google's new policy which went from “discouraging” direct-reporting-line relationships to outright banning them.

“Still, he never told anyone he worked for that we were pregnant (sic),” she had alleged.

It may also be recalle that Google has been hit by a couple of high-profile sexual harassment cases in the recent past.

The company reportedly paid USD 105 million to Andy Rubin and another former executive of Indian-origin called Amit Singhal, as exit package after they were accused of sexual harassment in 2014.

Singhal was Senior Vice President at Google Search while Rubin was head of Android at Google. Later, Singhal joined Uber, but had to step down from that company as Senior Vice President of Engineering in 2017 after details of sexual harassment reached Uber.

Significantly, Pichai had stated in 2019 that Google has so far terminated 48 people for sexual harassment.

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