Just come back to the thread so not 100% sure what this is about. However, Mark Thompson covered up the Jimmy Savile affair at the BBC. He blocked a documentary that was going to out Savile as a Pedo. Then he escaped the country with a parachute job at the New York Times I think.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/jimmy-savile/10512203/Former-BBC-boss-Mark-Thompson-lied-over-Savile-evidence-Nick-Pollard-claims.html
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/16/new-york-times-mark-thompson-jimmy-savile-bbc