Fredreka Schouten

USA TODAY

Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's former campaign manager and current CNN contributor, no longer will receive his $20,000-a-month severance payment from the Republican's campaign, the network announced Thursday.

Instead, the campaign has made a lump-sum payment to its former employee.

"The campaign has paid the remainder of its residual contractual obligations to Mr. Lewandowski," Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in an email. The final payment will be noted in the campaign's next report to the Federal Election Commission, she said.

If the monthly severance figure remained constant, then Lewandowski likely received an $80,000 final payment, putting the New Hampshire political consultant on track to secure more than $500,000 in total from the Trump campaign.

The payment news was disclosed Thursday morning by CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota as she introduced Lewandowski for a segment on the campaign.

"In previous appearances, we have told you that Corey was still receiving severance from the Trump campaign," she said. "That is no longer the case we are told. Are you done with those payments?"

"Amazing, everything comes to an end," Lewandowski said.

Politico reports that the campaign paid the remaining money to Lewandowski in a lump-sum to avoid the distracting monthly stories about the severance every time journalists pore over Trump's campaign-finance reports.

Lewandowski left the Trump campaign in June and was hired days later by CNN.

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Lewandowski's payments and remaining ties to Trump's campaign have raised repeated questions about potential conflicts of interests, given his regular appearances on the cable network. Lewandowski also had signed a non-disparagement agreement with Trump's campaign, something the real-estate magnate requires of employees and even low-level campaign volunteers.

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The Trump camp already had paid more than $456,000 to Lewandsowski's firm, Green Monster Consulting, through the end of August, according to its most recent filings with the Federal Election Commission.

Lewandowski had never worked on a national political race before Trump's campaign. He was a controversial figure on the campaign trail. Earlier this year, he was charged with misdemeanor battery, later dropped, after he was accused of grabbing a reporter as she questioned Trump at a campaign event.