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BBC Trust chairman defends payoff to former chief

By Robert Barr
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LONDON (AP) — The BBC paid its former director-general $772,000 after only 54 days at the helm because it was the only viable way to get him to leave in the wake of the broadcaster’s sex abuse scandal, the chairman of its governing body said Tuesday.

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