INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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Richard DeVaul was a member of the team behind Alphabet's Project Loon venture
An
executive at the X lab, set up by Google, has left his post after historical sexual harassment accusations against him were made public in
the New York Times.Richard DeVaul is alleged to have made inappropriate advances towards a female job candidate in 2013.The New York Times
Rubin said on Twitter that the New York Times story contained "numerous inaccuracies about my employment at Google and wild exaggerations
about my compensation"."Specifically, I never coerced a woman to have sex in a hotel room," he added.Mr DeVaul told the New York Times that
he was sorry for his "error of judgement".His LinkedIn profile has been updated to say that he is now working as an "innovation executive
consultant".Google said this week that, since 2016, employees who had left the company after sexual harassment allegations had not received
a pay-off.Google's chief executive said this week that he shared the "anger and disappointment" felt by some staff following reports of how
sexual harassment had been dealt with at the tech giant
Sundar Pichai noted some staff would stage a walkout on Thursday over the issue.He said they would have Google's support.According to Mr
Pichai, the company's policy on executives departing due to sexual harassment accusations has been updated.He said that in the past two
years 48 people had been fired from the company in such circumstances, including 13 senior managers or higher.None of these individuals, he
said, had received a pay-off
Executives who departed voluntarily also received no pay-off."I understand the anger and disappointment that many of you feel," wrote Mr
Pichai in an internal memo published by news site Axios."I feel it as well and I am fully committed to making progress on an issue that has
