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USC President C.L. Max Nikias, who stepped down in the wake of a sex abuse scandal, walked away with a compensation package worth nearly $7.7 million, a USA TODAY review of just-released tax documents show.
University officials declined to talk to USA TODAY, but a statement from the USC Board of Trustees said the board voted to honor Nikias’ contract and agreed “to certain other provisions to accelerate his departure.”
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