{"id":12725,"date":"2024-03-05T19:44:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/former-twitter-executives-sue-elon-musk-for-128-million-in-severance\/"},"modified":"2024-03-05T19:44:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T14:14:38","slug":"former-twitter-executives-sue-elon-musk-for-128-million-in-severance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/05\/former-twitter-executives-sue-elon-musk-for-128-million-in-severance\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Twitter Executives Sue Elon Musk for $128 Million in Severance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_82\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Four former Twitter executives are reportedly suing Elon Musk for $128 million in severance.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter\u2019s former CEO Parag Argrawal, Ned Segal, former CFO, Vijaya Gadde, former head of legal policy and Sean Edgett, former general counsel all sued Musk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn their complaint, lawyers for the ex-Twitter executives say that after Musk backed himself into a deal to buy Twitter, now X Corp., for $44 billion, he took revenge against these execs personally, and tried to recover some of his expenses by \u201crepeatedly refusing to honor other clear contractual commitments.\u201d\u201d CNBC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/03\/04\/former-twitter-execs-sue-elon-musk-and-x-for-128-million-in-severance.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusk and X Corp. have been \u201cstiffing employees, landlords, vendors, and others\u201d since they took over Twitter, the lawyers allege, an allusion to more than 25 vendor non-payment lawsuits filed against the social media business by companies including software and service providers and a landlord.\u201d the outlet continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusk doesn\u2019t pay his bills, believes the rules don\u2019t apply to him, and uses his wealth and power to run roughshod over anyone who disagrees with him,\u201d the complaint said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk immediately fired the top Twitter executives who were behind banning Trump and Trump supporters from the social media platform when he acquired the company in October 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New: When Elon Musk took over Twitter he fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, top lawyer Vijaya Gadde and GC Sean Edgett immediately \u201cfor cause,\u201d which meant withholding their golden parachutes. <\/p>\n<p>Now they\u2019re suing him for $128 million <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qGRAsst9QL\">https:\/\/t.co\/qGRAsst9QL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kurt Wagner (@KurtWagner8) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtWagner8\/status\/1764753974719049763?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/americanfaith.com\/former-twitter-executives-sue-elon-musk-for-128-million-in-severance\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four former Twitter executives are reportedly suing Elon Musk for $128 million in severance. Twitter\u2019s former CEO Parag Argrawal, Ned Segal, former CFO, Vijaya Gadde, former head of legal policy and Sean Edgett, former general counsel all sued Musk. \u201cIn their complaint, lawyers for the ex-Twitter executives say that after Musk backed himself into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}