Donald Trump may be in trouble for asking oil executives to donate $1 billion to his campaign in April. Citizen for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit watchdog organization, filed a complaint with the Justice Department alleging criminal bribery regarding Trump’s meeting with industry leaders. The former president and convicted felon told them the […]
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NORTHERN LAKES Former executives speak out
Jun. 22—TRAVERSE CITY — Two now-former executives of Northern Lakes Community Mental Health Authority say insinuations of wrongdoing, shared during board meetings and with law enforcement, unfairly damaged their reputations and skewed public opinion. “There was no misconduct, no collusion, there isn’t any evidence of that, they’ve made innuendos that Joanie and Laurie couldn’t respond […]
Trump says business executives should be ‘fired for incompetence’ if they don’t support him
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that business executives and shareholder representatives should “be 100% behind” him or face termination. “Business Executives and Shareholder Representatives should be 100% behind Donald Trump! Anybody that’s not should be FIRED for incompetence!,” the former president wrote in a post on his social media website, Truth Social. His […]
Trump, Biden aide woo corporate America executives
By Gram Slattery, David Shepardson and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and Jeff Zients, U.S. President Joe Biden’s White House chief of staff, on Thursday met with top American business leaders in Washington as they seek to curry favor with corporate America months ahead of elections, two sources said. Trump […]
Finance executives fret at slow IRA rollout
The Biden administration’s massive energy and climate programs hold big benefits for the economy — but the rollout needs to speed up, one energy finance industry executive said Wednesday. “I think it hasn’t been implemented fast enough,” George Bilicic, managing director at asset management firm Lazard, told POLITICO’s Energy Summit, though he acknowledged the difficulty […]
Boeing executives unlikely to be charged over 737 MAX crashes, source says
By Mike Spector New York (Reuters) -Boeing executives are unlikely to be criminally charged over fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people as the statute of limitations has likely passed, U.S. Justice Department officials told victims’ family members in a meeting. Details were corroborated by a person familiar with the gathering on […]
Scarlett Johansson’s scathing statement, mass exodus of executives are among the company’s latest woes
OpenAI, the company known for developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology, was the subject of a scathing statement by actress Scarlett Johansson this week, in which she expressed “anger” and “disbelief” to hear a voice “eerily similar” to her own used — without her approval — in a demo of the company’s new […]
From Scarlett Johansson’s scathing statement to a mass exodus of executives, here’s everything you need to know about the latest OpenAI drama.
OpenAI, the company known for developing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technology, was the subject of a scathing statement by actress Scarlett Johansson this week, in which she expressed “anger” and “disbelief” to hear a voice “eerily similar” to her own used — without her approval — in a demo of the company’s new […]
3M shareholders vote down executives’ pay packages in annual meeting
May 14 (Reuters) – 3M said on Tuesday that the annual compensation packages of certain executives, including that of former CEO Mike Roman, did not receive the requisite number of favorable shareholder votes, on an advisory basis. Roman’s 2023 total compensation was $16.4 million, compared to about $14 million in 2022, even as the company […]
3M shareholders vote down executives’ pay packages in annual meeting
(Reuters) – 3M said on Tuesday that the annual compensation packages of certain executives, including that of former CEO Mike Roman, did not receive the requisite number of favorable shareholder votes, on an advisory basis. Roman’s 2023 total compensation was $16.4 million, compared to about $14 million in 2022, even as the company dealt with […]
Report: Two Executives Depart WWE
Two WWE executives have left the company. Mike Johnson of PWInsider reports that WWE Vice President of International Events and General Manager of Emerging Markets Michael Levin exited recently. He had been with the company for over seven years. Levin had worked out of WWE’s London office, and Johnson reports that his position was phased […]
Trump pressed oil executives to give $1 billion for his campaign, people in industry say
Former President Donald Trump asked oil industry executives last month to donate $1 billion to aid his campaign to retake the White House, three people familiar with the conversation told POLITICO — a request that campaign finance experts said appeared troubling but is probably legal. The request, first reported Thursday by The Washington Post, occurred […]