McDonald’s former CEO Steve Easterbrook has denied the fast-food giant’s accusations that he read about his habit of sexting with multiple employees, claiming the company should have known about the problem when it went fat last year farewell package handed over.
In a complaint filed last week, McDonald’s alleged that Easterbrook had sexual relations with three subordinates that it did not know about when it was negotiating a package for a reported $ 42 million about an unfavorable relationship, claiming that he ‘lied. ‘had and’ hidden evidence ‘about the cases.
The evidence includes dozens of naked as well as explicit photos and videos of women – some of those underwear from Easterbrook at McDonald’s – that he allegedly sent attachments to his personal e-mail account from his e-mail account for work.
In a Friday court filing, Easterbrook denied that his former employer should have been aware of the steamy emails, noting that they had remained on the company’s server despite the fact that he had removed them from his mobile.
“McDonald’s – a sophisticated entity represented by a number of internal and external experts when it entered into the severance agreement – is aware that it can not trust any delay in the contract fraction,” according to Easterbrook’s statement. “Instead, it seeks to misrepresent claims for a breach of fiduciary duty or fraud.”
The dirty email attachments were revealed to McDonald’s in July by a tipster, the company’s complaint says. The McDonald’s complaint also raises issues of “extraordinary share support, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars”, for one of the employees with whom Easterbrook was romantically involved.
Easterbrook reckons that the board of directors approves the share price, and claims so too the complaint is filed in the wrong court, according to the filing. McDonald’s has filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court, but its divorce agreement requires related lawsuits to be filed in Illinois, according to Easterbrook attorneys.
“McDonald’s stands by its complaint, both the factual allegations and the court in which it was filed,” a McDonald’s spokesman said.
Easterbrook was appointed CEO in 2015 and was reassured by reversing the company’s sagging sales, in part through the introduction of full breakfast sessions. Meanwhile, however, a “party culture among senior executives” flourished on Easterbrook’s watch, according to the Wall Street Journal (paywall).
“The former CEO often socialized at bars and sporting events in Chicago with employees, and flirted with some female employees,” according to the paper, citing anonymous sources.
He was fired in November.
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