Previous Exchange Admin has somehow granted himself inherited Full access rights to All Exchange Mailboxes -AccessRights -InheritanceType

Good Day,
There is a previous employee that was a Systems Admin and somehow he granted himself access to Every Mailbox item at one point in time and the cleanup has been a bit messy.
When this user is listed as "Full Access Granted" in the Manage Full Access Permissions function, and I delete him, I get a confirmation that he was removed, but then an additional item below it. (This is depicted in the attached photo)
How do I remove the hierarchical inheritance of this user?
the commands in the photo show:
Remove-Mailboxpermission -identity %OU String% -user %user% -inheritancetype 'All' -Accessrights 'FullAccess'
Add-Mailboxpermission -identity %OU String% -user %user% -Deny -Accessrights 'FullAccess'

Hello,
I have removed permission to this user in ADSI Edit Microsoft Exchange Configuration CN and ensured that his name was no where to be found in the ADSI permissions for Exchange. I was running the following command:
Get-Mailbox | Remove-MailboxPermission -User %USER% -AccessRights FullAccess,SendAs,Exter
nalAccount,DeleteItem,ReadPermission,ChangePermission,ChangeOwner -InheritanceType All
and I get a return warning:
WARNING: An inherited access control entry has been specified: [Rights: CreateChild, Delete, ReadControl, WriteDacl,
WriteOwner, ControlType: Allow]
and was ignored on object "CN=%FullAccessUser%"
How can I ensure that this user had NO permissions at all to the exchange mailboxes?

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