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I’ve spent the past weeks combing through the details of the allegations against hundreds of powerful men whose professional lives were upended as a result of #MeToo: chronicling exactly what they were accused of; fact-checking those accusations; uncovering who, if anyone, stepped into their vacated roles; and what they’ve done since.

It’s been a painstaking task, and a sobering one (you can scroll through the results here). S everal of the men we assumed had lost their jobs and their reputations in the last year actually received huge payouts, have since attracted investors or, in some cases, quietly returned to their industries without much notice. (Certainly without Louis C.K.-levels of attention, or debate.)

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Who are these men? They are:

Garrison Keillor, the Minnesota Public Radio host who lost his job following allegations of inappropriate behavior in November. And yet in April, M.P.R. quietly returned archived episodes of Mr. Keillor’s flagship programs, “A Prairie Home Companion” and “The Writer’s Almanac,” to their websites, and paid him $275,000 for the deal. Mr. Keillor said that the agreement “means that we move on to more interesting things.” He recently restarted “The Writer’s Almanac” as a podcast.

The filmmaker James Toback, accused by nearly 400 women of sexual misconduct, whose new film, “The Private Life of a Modern Woman” premiered at the Oldenburg Film Fest in Germany last month. (At the time, the actress Chantal Cousineau tweeted: “THIS is #rapeculture in the flesh.” To which the film’s distributor, Paul Thiltges, replied: “We love the movie and will continue to defend it against all odds .”)

Mike Cagney, who stepped down as chief executive of Social Finance the month before the Weinstein investigation was published amid allegations that not only had he behaved badly, but that he’d encouraged a company culture of sexual harassment. He has since secured about $50 million in funding for a new venture.

As for the men who received, or may receive, a financial windfall to cushion the blow:

Michael Ferro, chairman of the newspaper publisher Tronc, who stepped down hours before Fortune magazine published an article about accusations of sexual misconduct; Jerry Richardson, the founder and former owner of Carolina Panthers, who was revealed to have paid women to keep mum about sexual harassment; and Les Moonves, the former chief executive of CBS.



Mr. Ferro is expected to be paid $5 million per year by Tronc to serve as a consultant . Mr. Richardson sold his team for at least $2.2 billion, a record amount. And Mr. Moonves could get a severance package of more than $100 million, depending on what the network’s investigation turns up.

It all raises the questions of how long is long is “enough” for someone to be exiled from their respective fields, and who gets to make that decision.