Former Sunderland chief executive Margaret Byrne received an £850,000 pay-off after resigning in the wake of Adam Johnson's conviction on child sex offences.
The club's latest full accounts reveal that Byrne was paid £1,207,770 during the year to July 31, 2016, £850,000 of it in "compensation for loss of office".
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