Elon Musk’s Twitter was sued by a non-public jet supplier for refusing to pay for 2 flights taken by former chief advertising officer Leslie Berland as Musk was getting ready to shut his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform.
Non-public Jet Companies Group LLC claims it’s owed $197,725 for Berland’s Oct. 26 flight from Teterboro, New Jersey, to San Francisco and a return flight the next day — the identical day Musk closed the deal to purchase Twitter. Berland was fired in early November, together with about half the workforce on the firm.
In response to a contract PJS had with Twitter, a chosen consultant on the social media firm was required to guide charters, however the flight service firm stated that follow wasn’t all the time adopted and flights have been booked by emails and textual content messages and paid with out concern previous to Musk’s takeover.
However after Musk’s acquisition, the corporate refused to pay the payments for Berland’s flights, with Marty O’Neill, head of worldwide strategic sourcing at Twitter, claiming in an electronic mail that they weren’t ordered by the designated consultant, in accordance with a criticism filed Friday in federal court docket in New Hampshire.
Twitter worker Taylor DeLorenzo replied to O’Neill in an electronic mail cited within the criticism, writing: “Simply needed to ship a fast notice almost about the excellent bill for PJS: Parag [Agrawal] did log out on this expense (he was nonetheless CEO on the time of each flight purchases) for Leslie. It was an pressing want the week the deal closed, and Leslie was the principle particular person from Twitter liaising immediately with Elon.”
However that didn’t sway the brand new administration.
“Thanks Taylor, respect the added context,” O’Neill replied, in accordance with one other electronic mail cited within the criticism. “Nonetheless, new administration is just not going to budge.”
Twitter didn’t instantly reply to an emailed request for remark.
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