The State Department on Wednesday said former spokeswoman Heather Nauert never received payments from 21st Century Fox during her two years in the Trump administration after a watchdog group alleged that Nauert had been paid by the media company while working as a government employee.

"The State Department’s Ethics Office confirms that Ms. Nauert’s certified Financial Disclosure Report did not contain salary from 21st Century Fox," a State Department spokesman said in a statement to The Hill on Wednesday.

The comments from the department came in response to a since-deleted report from watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW) about the alleged salary payments that Nauert had received while working at the State Department.

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The watchdog group, which has battled the administration on other issues, alleged that Nauert reported receiving a $167,000 salary from Fox in the second part of her termination report, which covered a period between January 2018 and March 2019.

But CREW late Wednesday night retracted its post, saying in a statement that an amended version of Nauert’s financial disclosure indicated she had not received payments from her former employer while in government.

“CREW’s post was written based on publicly available financial disclosure documents certified by Ms. Nauert,” the group said in a statement.

CREW statement regarding today's blog post on Heather Nauert's financial disclosures: pic.twitter.com/YoEc753Vcm — Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) July 3, 2019

“CREW followed up with State to request any revisions or final certifications of the document, and State indicated ‘with respect to Ms. Nauert, the termination report was her final report.’ Following publication, Ms. Nauert has made an amended version public. With the information provided in the new version, we have pulled the post down as it no longer reflects the information contained in the newest version of the report.”

Nauert, who worked as a top spokeswoman for the State Department between 2017 and 2019, blasted CREW's report on Twitter, calling it "false" and saying that its story was "based on a preliminary draft with a clerical error."

"The FINAL CERTIFIED report, available to anyone, makes it clear that I NEVER received salary from Fox," Nauert tweeted, adding in a separate tweet that the report was "flat out wrong."

This is false.I NEVER received salary from 21st Century Fox while employed by State Dept.This story is based on a preliminary draft with a clerical error.The FINAL CERTIFIED report, available to anyone, makes it clear that I NEVER received salary from Fox while working for govt https://t.co/tAyeq7hkh8 — heather nauert (@HeatherNauert) July 3, 2019

.@CREWcrew Your report about me is flat out wrong. Please see my certified financial disclosure report, available to anyone who requests it. That report confirms that I received no salary from 21st Century Fox while employed by the U.S. government. Correct your “story” now. — heather nauert (@HeatherNauert) July 3, 2019

A Fox News spokesperson also confirmed she was not paid a salary in 2018 or 2019.

CREW did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

Nauert served as a reporter and anchor at Fox News before joining the State Department in 2017.

President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE said in December that he would pick Nauert to replace Nikki Haley Nimrata (Nikki) Haley'The soul' versus 'law and order' Author Ryan Girdusky: RNC worked best when highlighting 'regular people' as opposed to 'standard Republicans' GOP lobbyists pleasantly surprised by Republican convention MORE as United Nations ambassador, though Nauert withdrew her name from consideration in February, saying it was in the best interest of her family that she not go through the confirmation process.

Trump announced in February that he was selecting Kelly Craft, the current U.S. ambassador to Canada, for the United Nations post. Her nomination was sent to the Senate in May.

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