• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Good luck. If the SEC hasn’t already started building a case against him for insider trading, then nothing is going to happen to him. He’ll get a golden parachute and scurry off to ruin some other company.

      • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        “Selling shares before the announcement” was a pretty egregious misrepresentation. He has scheduled pre-registered sales on a regular basis because he gets paid partly in stock.

        It was always going to be relatively soon after a sale of stock.

        • William@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          As if you can’t schedule your announcements to fall just after the scheduled stock sales… Or just before them, if you want.

        • Aqarius@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          You know, that might just make it worse. As in, this wasn’t some 5d plot, he genuinely thought this would work.

      • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        I think he might autosell his stock so that wouldn’t be insider trading, but since of the board members might.

    • Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I think you mean a nice golden parachute to reward them for taking the heat, so they can swap in a new expensive face to implement slightly less unpopular fees.

    • AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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      2 years ago

      This was a board decision, not the CEO as an individual.

      They are all equally resonate and if they fire him it’s to save face and kick him as a scape goat

      • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        Going to need proof of that.

        In nearly every company, CEO makes the plan. Board wants a process and results. CEO is the one who spearheads it.