More than five months after being fired by Elon Musk, three of Twitter's former top executives filed a suit on Monday seeking reimbursement for costs of litigation, investigations and congressional inquiries related to their former jobs.
Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, along with the company's former chief legal and financial officers, claim in the suit that they are owed a total of more than $1 million?and that Twitter is legally bound to pay them, AFP reported.?
The three former executives argue that Twitter is bound by agreements to reimburse them, but has done no more than acknowledge that it received their invoices.
Twitter responded to respond with a poop emoji, as has become its practice recently under Elon Musk.
The court filing outlined numerous expenses related to inquiries by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), but does not include details on the nature of the investigations or whether they are still ongoing.
Former Twitter CEO Agrawal and then-chief financial officer Ned Segal provided testimony to the SEC last year and "have continued to engage with federal authorities," according to court documents.
The SEC is investigating whether Elon Musk complied with securities rules when he accumulated Twitter shares.
Former Twitter chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde was called on to take part in a US congressional hearing about big tech and free speech following Musk's release late last year of so-called "Twitter Files" related to the site's content moderation.?Gadde was also named as a defendant in a lawsuit by a man who claimed he was "doxed" at Twitter as a white supremacist, the filing said, as per the?AFP report.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk terminated Agrawal, Gadde and Segal from their posts in late October after closing his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
After taking over Twitter, Musk quickly slashed the ranks of employees, with the cuts so broad it raised concerns about the platform's stability and its ability to fight misinformation and other abuse.
As per the report, complaints have also been filed accusing Twitter of not paying rent or other bills as Musk follows on a vow to "cut costs like crazy." The continuous cost cutting has been despite around 70% of employees of Twitter already laid off by Musk in the last five months.
On the other hand, Musk has also said that he plans to find a suitable candidate to be Twitter's new CEO by the end of this year. In February, Musk tweeted the photo of a dog as Twitter's new CEO after which the price of his favourite crypto Dogecoin shot up.
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