> If someone walks away with 8-digit sums, there were contracts involved

The NYT article is pretty unequivocal that that is false, even if you want to pull out quotes talking about different issues.

> paying them millions of dollars as they departed, even though it had no legal obligation to do so.

They had no legal obligation to pay the severance.

If you want to discuss a different reason to pay $90 million to someone fired for sexual harassment, fine.

But your original comment was unequivocally wrong, let's just recognize that.