Long-time 60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice has lost his job after a review by the Nine Network over the botched 60 Minutes child recovery in Lebanon.
Veteran journalist and founding producer of 60 Minutes Gerald Stone has slammed Tara Brown and her team for their handling of the botched child kidnap story in Lebanon.
An email chain has confirmed that the top executives of 60 Minutes knew of the plan to abduct Sally Faulkner's two children in Beirut for three months before the foiled attempt in April.
The botched child recovery in Lebanon funded by 60 Minutes has cost Channel Nine more than $2 million in legal fees and compensation.
Adam Whittington, who allegedly organised the botched attempt to recover Sally Faulkner's children in Beirut, has been released on bail in Lebanon after 100 days in jail.
60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown and her husband of 16 years - television executive John McAvoy - have reportedly split. Brown and McAvoy have two children together, Jack, 7, and Tom, 5.
Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner shares a heartbreaking snap of her daughter Lahela, 6, appearing sad and alienated at school in Lebanon, posting the photo on Facebook on Tuesday.
Tara Brown was sent to Lebanon with three crew members in 2016 in an ambitious bid to reunite an Australian mother with her two children.
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