Aaron Slator is no longer AT&T's president of content and advertising sales.
According to a $100 million lawsuit filed Monday, Slator used his work phone to send racist images. The suit was filed by Knoyme King, an African-American woman who worked for Slator. She saw the messages when transferring data to a new phone for Slator.
"There is no place for demeaning behavior within AT&T, and we regret the action was not taken earlier," the company said in a statement.
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Slator will be out of the picture, but the lawsuit will continue. The case named the company and several executives as defendants, in addition to Slator. King's lawyer told The Associated Press that AT&T failed to address the problem sooner, even though it was brought to the company's HR department as well as its board of directors.
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