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Corey Lewandowski faces battery charges for grabbing a reporter. | Getty Trump campaign pays off Corey Lewandowski contract

Former Donald Trump campaign manager and now CNN contributor Corey Lewandowski is no longer receiving monthly severance payments from the campaign. Instead, the campaign paid off the remainder of his contract in one lump sum, said a CNN executive with knowledge of the situation, and confirmed by the campaign.

"The campaign has paid the remainder of its residual contractual obligations to Mr. Lewandowski. This final payment will be noted in the next FEC report," said Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks.

CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota made the announcement on Thursday morning.

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

"Amazing, everything comes to an end," Lewandowski said, joking that "40 days" before the election, this was news.

"I didn't think those would run out," Camerota said.

"Corey came to CNN and let us know that he and the campaign came to an agreement that his severance payment would be paid out to avoid future distractions. Corey and the campaign came to a private decision, he made us aware and we reported it," the CNN source said.

Lewandowski was fired from the Trump campaign in June and hired by CNN a few days later. Per his contract with Trump, he was set to continue to receive severance payments from the campaign through the end of 2016, an unique position for a former campaign staffer.

Lewandowski's CNN job and relationship with the Trump campaign — he signed a nondisclosure and nondisparagement agreement with the Trump campaign — has led to criticism that CNN was paying someone who was effectively still on a campaign payroll. And, as POLITICO reported earlier this month, Lewandowski has been playing a wider role in the campaign recently, even if he technically is not an official part of it.

This post has been updated to clarify that Lewandowski received a lump sum payment from the Trump campaign.

Hadas Gold is a reporter at Politico.