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It’s a Hell of much more than 140 characters, however the severance and advantages lawsuit towards Elon Musk and X Corp from a quartet of ex-Twitter executives sends a really clear message.
Hand over the cash you owe us!
That’s a message to the overall tune of $128 million declare former CEO, Parag Agrawal, ex-CFO Ned Segal, former CLO Vijaya Gadde, and ex Common Counsel Sean Edgett in a criticism filed in federal court docket in northern California at the moment.
“As a result of Musk determined he didn’t need to pay Plaintiffs’ severance advantages, he merely fired them with out purpose, then made up faux trigger and appointed staff of his numerous firms to uphold his resolution,” the considerably redacted six-claim submitting notes.
Referring to the “staggering variety of lawsuits from its distributors and repair suppliers throughout a variety of industries” and mounting authorized actions from “1000’s of non-executive former staff” towards Musk and the social media platform previously referred to as Twitter because the erratic billionaire purchased the corporate beneath duress for $44 billion in 2022, the 4 executives go on to take a stab at Musk’s MO with regards to ex-employees and others. “That is the Musk playbook: to maintain the cash he owes different individuals, and power them to sue him,” they insist. “Even in defeat, Musk can impose delay, problem, and expense on others much less capable of afford it.”
To that finish, represented by the San Francisco and Chicago workplaces of Sidley Austin, the as soon as highly effective tech lords are utilizing the usually sued and infrequently litigious Musk’s personal phrases towards him.
“Musk instructed his official biographer, Walter Isaacson, that he would ‘hunt each single one in every of’ Twitter’s executives and administrators ‘until the day they die,’” says the 38-page criticism. “These statements weren’t the mere rantings of a self-centered billionaire surrounded by enablers unwilling to confront him with the authorized penalties of his personal decisions. Musk bragged to Isaacson particularly how he deliberate to cheat Twitter’s executives out of their severance advantages to be able to save himself $200 million.”
The needles within the haystack right here is that Agrawal, Segal, Gadde, and Edgett all had “good purpose” clauses of their respective contracts that assured them of a full payout within the occasion of a circumstance like Twitter ceasing to be “a publicly traded entity”- as occurred with Twitter in October 20222. These clauses appear to have been missed by Musk and his minions once they confirmed Agrawal (who alone stood to obtain a $60 million golden handshake), Segal, Gadde, and Edgett the door.
Having spent the day expressing dismay over immigration stats and pleasure over the newest House X launch, Musk had nothing to say about Mondays’ swimsuit. Reps for X didn’t reply to request from Deadline for touch upon the transfer by ex-CEO Agrawal, ex-CFO Segal, ex-legal/coverage chief Gadde, and ex-general counsel Edgett.
If and when Musk or X do have one thing to say about at the moment’s criticism, this submit will likely be up to date.
