[HN Gopher] Carta announces layoffs, fires CTO
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Carta announces layoffs, fires CTO
Author : impish9208
Score : 24 points
Date : 2023-01-06 20:13 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| impish9208 wrote:
| Lawsuit against CTO (from https://www.law.com/radar/card/eshares-
| inc-v-talton-iii-4732...): eShares Inc. d/b/a
| Carta Inc. filed a breach-of-contract and trade secrets lawsuit
| against former CTO Jerry O. Talton III on Friday in New York
| Southern District Court. The suit, brought by Dechert, accuses
| the defendant of leaking private, privileged and confidential
| info to outside parties in order to induce and assist legal
| claims against the company. Counsel have not yet appeared for the
| defendant. The case is 1:22-cv-10987, eShares Inc. v. Talton.
| avmich wrote:
| > leaking private, privileged and confidential info to outside
| parties in order to induce and assist legal claims against the
| company
|
| In other words, he told about something potentially illegal,
| but secret, and now is sued.
|
| Sounds somewhat similar to whistleblowing. Why this could be
| illegal?
| [deleted]
| mjcl wrote:
| The complaint sounds a lot worse than that!
|
| > Unbeknownst to Carta, Talton repeatedly abused his position
| of trust and confidence as CTO to secretly record multiple
| Carta executives, Board members and others in an attempt to
| harm Carta, including by feeding such information to former
| employees who were threatening to assert claims against Carta
| (and/or who were already litigating against Carta), and to
| circumvent and undermine the very information technology
| infrastructure and security systems he was charged with
| safeguarding in order to conceal his own illicit conduct.
|
| From page 2, here: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/go
| v.uscourts.nysd.59...
| runchberries wrote:
| Sounds like a wonderful person:
|
| > By way of example only, Talton sent or received messages
| that include the terms "jungle n***s" and "gross lesbians,"
| "butterfaces," "rape," "big rubber dog dick," "pathetically
| obsessed pussy slave," phrases such as "women don't
| experience pain the way humans do," "I'm never going to get
| to pin you down and fuck you again, am I...you know how
| hard I get when you humiliate me," "now i have to jerk off
| before my meetings start" in addition to sending links
| containing explicit and misogynistic pornography.
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