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Former Twitter executives together with CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, Head of Authorized, Vijaya Gadde, and Basic Counsel Sean Edgett filed a brand new lawsuit in opposition to Elon Musk and X Corp. in a federal court docket arguing that they’re owed $128 million in unpaid severance.
Of their grievance, legal professionals for the ex-Twitter executives say that after Musk backed himself right into a deal to purchase Twitter, now X Corp., for $44 billion, he took revenge in opposition to these execs personally, and tried to get better a few of his bills by “repeatedly refusing to honor different clear contractual commitments.”
Musk and X Corp. have been “stiffing staff, landlords, distributors, and others” since they took over Twitter, the legal professionals allege, an allusion to greater than 25 vendor non-payment lawsuits filed in opposition to the social media enterprise by firms together with software program and repair suppliers and a landlord.
“Musk would not pay his payments, believes the principles do not apply to him, and makes use of his wealth and energy to run roughshod over anybody who disagrees with him,” the grievance says.
The grievance additionally alludes to feedback Musk made to his official biographer, Walter Isaacson, that “he would ‘hunt each single one in all’ Twitter’s executives and administrators ‘until the day they die.'” The ex-Twitter execs’ legal professionals argue, “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 selections. Musk bragged to Isaacson particularly how he deliberate to cheat Twitter’s executives out of their severance advantages with a purpose to save himself $200 million.”
The go well with, Agrawal et al v. Musk et al, was filed in California’s Northern District and follows information that settlement talks between X Corp. and ex-Twitter managers broke down in a associated case in Delaware, Woodfield v. Twitter Inc., the place $500 million in unpaid severance to former Twitter managers and engineers is in dispute.
Representatives for X Corp., and Elon Musk didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Learn the total grievance beneath:
