A longtime CNN correspondent just received some bad news regarding the future of his career with the network. This comes five months after his reporting resulted in the company losing millions of dollars due to a defamation trial.

Alex Marquardt, who had been with the news outlet for 8 years, has been given his walking papers, ending his time as a reporter with CNN on a truly negative note.

“Some personal news: I’m leaving CNN after 8 terrific years. Tough to say goodbye but it’s been an honor to work among the very best in the business. Profound thank you to my comrades on the National Security team & the phenomenal teammates I’ve worked with in the US and abroad,” Marquardt said in a post published on X.

Oliver Darcy, a former CNN media correspondent, said that Marquardt was given the boot due to “editorial differences.” However, the disgraced reporter was careful to be vague when announcing the news of his departure on Monday.

In January, a jury in Bay County, Florida, decided CNN had defamed U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, going on to rule that Young could seek punitive damages due to a report from Marquardt dated November 2021.

Young accused the liberal news network of smearing his character by implying he made money off helping folks escape Afghanistan during the Biden withdrawal debacle. The veteran said the report “destroyed his reputation and business” by making him out to be a profiteer who was exploiting “desperate Afghans.”

Before the jury could determine punitive damages, CNN and Young agreed to a settlement with an undisclosed amount. The jury awarded Young $5 million for financial and emotional damages before the two reached a settlement.

The foreman for the jury spoke with Fox News and said they were ready and willing to make CNN fork over “somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million to $100 million.”

It was revealed during the trial that Marquardt reportedly spoke with one of his colleagues, saying, “we’re gonna nail this Zachary Young mf—er,” which was cited often throughout the proceedings. The network tried to defend its decision to leave Marquardt on the air after the case because he was an “experienced, veteran reporter with valuable insights on the news.”

Young, in a post-trial interview, stated he has yet to forgive Marquardt for what he did, calling the now former CNN anchor out for being defiant on the witness stand.

“We’ve given Mr. Marquardt plenty of opportunities during deposition and then again at trial to apologize. And, you know, the answer was no,” Young said to Fox News Digital. “He still stands behind his work. He’s very proud of what he did. His hit piece on me to destroy my life.”

“I wasn’t looking to take anyone down. I didn’t take anyone down,” Marquardt said in his testimony. While he might not have issued an apology to Young, his employers did, back in 2022, following a threat of legal action by Young. Throughout the trial, Marquardt and some CNN staffers stated in their testimony that they didn’t feel the need to apologize.

“Alex Marquardt had put in an email, ‘I’m going to nail this Zachary Young.’ At that point it seemed as though he had put a target on Mr. Young’s back, and he was not going to let up until he reached his goal… It was obvious to the entire jury that he was out to get him,” jury foreman Katy Svitenko said during an interview with Fox News Digital in February.

Svitenko said that was when she decided that the actions taken by Marquardt and CNN fit the definition of defamation with malice.

“The jury pretty much agreed… those emails among the CNN employees were pretty bad. And not just one, it was several, at various levels throughout the corporation,” she continued.

Daniel Lustig, Young’s attorney in a lawsuit filed against the Associated Press concerning similar reporting, says the timing of Marquardt’s leaving CNN is “curious.”

“Mr. Marquardt was the lead reporter on the CNN story that a Florida jury found to be false and defamatory. CNN initially retracted the story in an attempt at damage control, but it didn’t work. A Florida jury found CNN liable for punitive damages based on less severe language. The Associated Press had full knowledge of that outcome and still chose to escalate the defamatory accusation. Now the CNN reporter has left the network for undisclosed reasons, but the timing is curious. CNN was held accountable, but AP chose to disregard my client’s vindication and instead, it escalated a false narrative that had already been dismantled in court. That says everything you need to know about their judgment and what’s coming next,” Lustig said to Fox.