News for violating securities law in relation to these payments.) O’Reilly also was accused of domestic abuse in 2014 during a custody battle.

Throughout all of this, Fox News was O’Reilly’s enabler. Murdoch, Ailes, and others also protected O’Reilly when he lied and threatened anyone who questioned his primacy (or integrity). And I have a personal stake in this part of the O’Reilly saga, because once I was the target of his violent rhetoric.

Two years ago, Daniel Schulman and I reported that O’Reilly had repeatedly mischaracterized his limited wartime reporting experience. Over the years, he had said he had witnessed combat while serving as a war correspondent for CBS News during the 1982 Falklands war between Argentina and the United Kingdom. He had also claimed that in this “warDimitri Payet has finally completed his acrimonious move to Olympique de Marseille, and claimed that he did not need to justify his behaviour to his former employers.

The France international forced a move away from West Ham United this month, eventually refusing to play for the Under-23 side as he held out in hope of the two clubs agreeing a fee.

A £25million deal, plus bonuses, was eventually settled upon for the 29-year-old playmaker but the Hammers refused to let him go until he had paid back his January wages and, even then, Payet still felt no remorse over his conduct of the past month.

Olympique de Marseille's new forward Dimitri Payet poses with his jerse (Getty Images)

"I was not feeling good in the club anymore," he said at a press